The second Speed Portfolio Viewing took place last Sunday 25.09 in L40, kindly hosted by Verein zur Förderung von Kunst e.V. am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz. After the event we asked artists and curators for a short feedback. The pictures were taken with my ipod, so they have this illegal immigrant pixelated touch, which is actually very unlike the very clean, very white cube atmosphere of the L40. Big thanks to Sarie (the interns diaries) and Maria Santos (Have You Met...) !!!
We asked the artists: What did you like? What did you not like? Would you have done anything differently? Which curator did you find most exciting and why? Which curator did you think you did not have a lot of thing in common. How did you like the brownies..
We asked the curators: What did you like, what did you not like about the process.
What did you overall think about the quality of works presented, which were your favorite "dates"
Do you think 12 min are enough for something like this?
How important is presenting the work, would a good work lose from a bad presentation, can you give a percentage like 60-40% quality of work-smoothness of presentation.
In an ideal world do you feel a curator should be paid to spend time reviewing portfolios?
PIGS is happy to organize the second Speed Portfolio Viewings. Based on the structure of speed dating, curators are invited to review artists’ portfolios in 10 short sessions of 12min each. In a clean and friendly environment PIGS brings together artists and curators who have not met yet and might appear of interest to eachother. The curators are chosen based on their variety of interests and practises. The artists are chosen based on their work and “compatability” with the participating curators. The curators stay, the artists rotate with their laptops, catalogues etc.
Bringing together speed dating and portfolio viewings , curators are invited to review artists’ portfolios in 10 short sessions of 20 minutes each. In a clean and friendly environment, PIGS brings together artists and curators who have not yet met and appear to share interests with each other. The curators will be chosen based on their variety of interests and practices. The artists will be chosen based on their work and “compatibility” with the participating curators. During the event, the curators will stay at their tables while the artists rotate with their laptops, catalogues etc. Participants: INFO FOR NEXT SPEED PORTFOLIO VIEWING TO BE ANNOUNCED
"Stronger Magic" vs "Choreographed Coincidence" with others that didn’t specify mixed in… -From the artist’s point of view it must be really interesting to see one’s work in such a new context/meaning. The aim to blur the autonomy of each artist was really successful. -I guess the idea of motivating people to look at an exhibition in an opening situation wins over everything, but the light decision behind Stronger Magic is such a dominant one that it makes the curation very problematic for me. The Choreographed Coincidence is just presenting the works and it does not connect them. No one wins except whoever came up with the idea for this event. -The space felt better utilized, more mysterious -What was the problem with the light? Do you want to save energy? -Poetic and dense approach .Very courageous.
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