NOTES FOR AN EXHIBITION

Artist: Desmond Church
Curators: Daniela Berger, Sabel Gavaldon, Egle Kulbokaite, Lily Hall, Mette Kjaergaard Praest, Laura Smith.

Co-curated by Toby Huddlestone CRATE presents the third exhibition as part of the current Exhibition as Medium programme, Notes For An Exhibition.

Six curators, one artist, one gallery, three weeks. The focus of Notes For An Exhibition will move away from methods of teleological exhibition-making toward action, response and production, emphasizing collaboration and discussion, association and conversation.

Notes For An Exhibition is an experiment that will deliberately be allowed to evolve and change shape. Over the exhibition’s three-week duration, six curators working in pairs will collaborate with the artist Desmond Church. To begin with the gallery space will be empty; throughout the three weeks to come Church will programmatically send each pair of curators a series of proposals for works, actions or instructions. These proposals will be sent to the curators one at a time and will most likely take the form of a drawing or a line of text, which will be interpreted and produced by the curators and finally be displayed alongside the outcome of their directive. The accumulation of these proposals and their outcomes will grow and exist in the gallery as evidence of the collaboration, building almost toward the final production of a Desmond Church solo show.

Notes For An Exhibition therefore seeks to address questions of duration and presence with regard to content and the development of ideas. It also hopes to investigate, or begin to unravel, contemporary ideas around authorship, object/research dynamics and the outsourcing of artistic production, drawing on alternative exhibition histories as inspiration toward its final outcome.

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