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team each selected their top six 50 choices for the commissions. These were
collated to produce a shortlist of eight practitioners. These were contacted in
turn and invited to propose either a specially commissioned work or a more
recent work that had not been shown in the UK previously for the exhibition.
Four new works were commissioned from practitioners that were invited to
contribute.
Existing works were contributed by ten sets of practitioners. These
practitioners responded to the open call for participation that was made publicly
available by the Fast-uk and folly websites and was posted on electronic
distribution lists and in newsletters and on blogs. The researcher also sent the
call to his personal contacts and the respondents of the survey of international
practitioners that had previously been conducted. The call was also sent to
various university art, architecture and product design departments. Forty-six
submissions were received by the due date of the open call. A curatorial
meeting was held in Lancaster to select from the open call applications and to
review the commission proposals. First the panel viewed the complete
documentation submitted by the applicants to gain an overview of the field.
Second the panel viewed the documentation again and discussed the merits of
the work. At this point each panel member made a decision to consider the
individual applicant further or not by a yes or no vote with the majority opinion
being considered. If the decision was ‘yes’ each panel member assigned a score
of 3, 2 or 1 (3 being more in favour of the work being included). If the majority
opinion was ‘no’ the application was no longer considered. All applications that
were scored were then ranked highest score to lowest. The panel arrived at a
shortlist of nine applicants to be considered for support based on the
submission’s relevance to the exhibition brief, cost, and feasibility. There were
several types of work which were similar to each other. In these cases the panel
discussed these and arrived at a decision based on which work would contribute
to the overall diversity of the exhibition and encourage different types of
interaction with the audience.
50 At that time six commissions had been budgeted.
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