Compared with the first exhibition 'One', the installation of second exhibition 'Two' went better and faster. There were a few reasons below:
To begin with, the artist arrived there earlier than the first day's artists, so that I have enough time to talk with them, to know what kind of works they wanted to show, to listen their desires of the installation and to discuss with them about our installation.
Secondly, each artist's work and idea were quite obviously. Unlike the problems we faced on the first - such as we couldn't image the effects when Page put her dryice into the cooker which contained hot water, so I had a hesitation to consider the location of her work - most of the works in 'Two' were visible and imaginable. Cai Jun Lee took her 'leaves' by herself and told me that she just need a high and narrow wall wherever; Niall Webb would like use a high and narrow wall as well to write his work both in advance and at the opening, so I considered to put his work and Cai Jun's together which would make the works looked plumply, voluminously and powerful. Tonia Papapetrou was interested in installing her statue and attachments on the left wall of entrance because she desired to show the profile of her statue, I respected her original idea of work and accepted her suggestion for sure. Lewis den Hertog's works were three pieces of printed image, which were very flexible to be installed. Charlotte Keirnan's work took time through, she told me she needed a corner of walls to get the shadow of chair at first and attached the ashes of burnt chair on the shadow, thus I suggested her to use the first corner which we could see from the entrance not only for the reason that her work could be visible directly but also for the reason that there was a back-light wall and we could get the shadow by a projector easily in case of many source light from different windows. Fraser Gray was absent while he would like to show his on-line video by laptop, so I used a corner where had a plug, and installed a laptop there; at the same time I hided the power cord in the corner.
Moreover, since I did curating things before at the first day, I was more familiar with the space. I knew more about what tools I could get from the sculpture studio and what kind of help I could get from the students and teachers. And I was also more confident and I thought I could handle it. lol...Sometimes psychological hint is really helpful.
To begin with, the artist arrived there earlier than the first day's artists, so that I have enough time to talk with them, to know what kind of works they wanted to show, to listen their desires of the installation and to discuss with them about our installation.
Secondly, each artist's work and idea were quite obviously. Unlike the problems we faced on the first - such as we couldn't image the effects when Page put her dryice into the cooker which contained hot water, so I had a hesitation to consider the location of her work - most of the works in 'Two' were visible and imaginable. Cai Jun Lee took her 'leaves' by herself and told me that she just need a high and narrow wall wherever; Niall Webb would like use a high and narrow wall as well to write his work both in advance and at the opening, so I considered to put his work and Cai Jun's together which would make the works looked plumply, voluminously and powerful. Tonia Papapetrou was interested in installing her statue and attachments on the left wall of entrance because she desired to show the profile of her statue, I respected her original idea of work and accepted her suggestion for sure. Lewis den Hertog's works were three pieces of printed image, which were very flexible to be installed. Charlotte Keirnan's work took time through, she told me she needed a corner of walls to get the shadow of chair at first and attached the ashes of burnt chair on the shadow, thus I suggested her to use the first corner which we could see from the entrance not only for the reason that her work could be visible directly but also for the reason that there was a back-light wall and we could get the shadow by a projector easily in case of many source light from different windows. Fraser Gray was absent while he would like to show his on-line video by laptop, so I used a corner where had a plug, and installed a laptop there; at the same time I hided the power cord in the corner.
Moreover, since I did curating things before at the first day, I was more familiar with the space. I knew more about what tools I could get from the sculpture studio and what kind of help I could get from the students and teachers. And I was also more confident and I thought I could handle it. lol...Sometimes psychological hint is really helpful.