Review of progress

My objectives are to continue to define and analyse my own and others’ practice, and hence define curatorial practice in the specific contexts of interventionist, non-urban and non-white spaces. Interviews with key curatorial practitioners are being developed. These will be documented and analysed for significant motivations and to identify practice materials. My own personal practice has informed my research and I have created some experimental curatorial projects (eg. The Ship’s Cousin). These were conducted in public places and documented through photography and posting on my research blog.

Further experimental projects will be produced and the development of a major public curatorial project will be initiated. Through discussion with my supervisors I have been encouraged at this stage to define my own curatorial practice, this has been initially through brainstorming and mind mapping analysis of the core materials that make up my practice, but now there is a need to develop a more rigorous methodology through regular reflective self-interviews (audio/visual). My literature review has identified key texts (Warner, Lippard, Greenburg, Fergusson, Nairne, Dorner, König), which determine a historical overview of experimental “break through points’ in global curatorial practice. This has also led to research into the theoretical underpinning of curatorial practice, (Dewey, Ranciere). I also intend to produce an introduction text that explores my understanding and definition of conceptual curatorship as a practice outside of the conventional contexts, the curatorial establishment and curators as individuals.