Curate
David’s curatorial practice focuses on developing the optimal conditions for artistic production in which exhibition and programming ambitions can be realised. With this in mind, he adopts three curatorial strategies:
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Happenings
Happenings occur in response to social, artistic and political conditions and opportunities. They tend to concentrate on event-contexts in which the conventional idea of an event is re-written from concept to experience. Happenings are rooted in a commitment to artist-led cultural development and embrace failure as a function of risk.
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Consulting
Consultancy services are provided to individuals, companies and institutions. The service may be pertinent to an artist’s working life, a company’s identity and ambition or a special project on which an institution is seeking conception, creation and presentation advice. Services are provided to selected clients in the arts and non-arts sectors.
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Meetings and Conversations
Conversations are generated by meeting artists in a pedagogical context which is led by a comprehensive inquiry into an artist’s practice in the company of other artists with a view to developing a shared, critical language.
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Platforms
Platforms are research-and-development contexts that engage artists from various disciplinary and cultural backgrounds. The emphasis is on discovery, play and chaos. Outcome is a dirty word. Process is clean. Chance is everything. An intimate professional engagement with other artists, their practices and thinking is a key dramaturgical strategy as is the introduction of people and ideas, unknown or unfamiliar to the artistic world.
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