Signal to noise

SKILLS:
- working professionally with a curator in a group show
- manage and representing artists
- coordinating artists, curator and venue
- mailling lists and use of Mail Chimp
- promotion: print and online; organising a write-up reviewer
- liaise with sponsorship deals to organise bar and other costs
- liaise with venue and gallery contracts
- finance and bookkeeping
- artwork inventories
Froozan Nazari was trying to find a venue and to organise a show for after the degree-show. I had run an events venue in the past in Hackney Wick and thought I could help finding a place, which I did. Since then, we sat down and started organising the show with Charlie Lang, who had also visited other venues to assess this possibility.
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Whereas we knew what to do organisation wise, and were keen but green to have a proper go at curating the show, we felt that accepting the kind offer from Charley Peters to curate it was a good idea, to be able to learn from a professional in regards to curation. This was a good move, as we were struggling to find a concept for the show and were getting lost in a democratic approach because of it.
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Charley came up with the concept (you can read the PR here), which we immediately found appropriate and a good solution for the "concept" problem, which was such a large variety of practices. We organised ourselves in tasks, with her active support in some of them.
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We are now underway with all the proceedings and looking forward to finalise the set-up.
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