Review of Progress 2

My objectives are to continue to define curatorial practice through critical analysis of my own and others’ practice. I have produced a comprehensive analytical text that defines and maps out my own experience and learning from an institutional profession of curating through to an independent individual practice. There is now an urgency to underpin this analysis from a historical and theoretical prospective, therefore I will research and produce a number of papers which analyse the theory, methods and practices of important curatorial figures including Harold Szeemann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Richard Demarco, Dan Cameron and Matthew Higgs. I will also research and derive a historical spectrum of curatorial practices focusing primarily on Scotland, which determine the context and value systems in which the contemporary art institutions and the independent art curators work and exist.

I am also in the process of developing 3 collaborative curatorial projects with Deveron Arts, Huntly, Cake magazine, Aberdeen, and Limousine Bull Art Collective/NTS, Aberdeenshire which will be presented in September – November 2009. These test projects will place my research and curatorial practice in the public sphere. I will also continue to archive and test projects through my research blog - http//:iainirvingresearch.blogspot.com.

I will also seek ways to integrate my research formally into my scholarly role at Gray’s, through the UG Critical and Contextual Studies programme and Masters seminar programme.