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links to the community, educational and commercial sectors. This would take
place in distributed venues across Lancaster.
Potential sites for the Fast-uk exhibition that were suggested were the Regal
Cinema which was being forced to close after seventy years because of the
opening of a new multiplex; or a group of historic buildings in the centre of
Lancaster that were being redeveloped. This site was to provide one thousand
five hundred square metres of new office space on the site of the old Council
Housing Offices in Dalton Square. These new offices were for technology-based
start-up businesses. The latter was of greater interest to us. If used for the
exhibition this Dalton Square property would not yet be occupied. It was felt
that if we were going to use a non-traditional exhibition venue we were more
interested in this ‘unmarked’ space. The new purpose of these buildings for
technology-based businesses also seemed more appropriate than an old cinema.
At the meeting the researcher disclosed the intention to use his involvement in
the project as a means of gathering data for this research project. A
presentation was made to clarify the aims and objectives of the research. This
presentation was titled ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders’ 80 marking a
change back to the original title from the ACE grant working title of ‘Perimeters,
Boundaries and Dimensions’. This presentation included a ‘wish list’ of
practitioners the researcher indicated would be desirable for the commissions
for inclusion in the exhibition. These were: Driessens & Verstappen, Freedom
of Creation, Human Beans, FutureFactories, sixteen*(makers), Justin Marshall,
Ken Rinaldo, Thomas Heatherwick, Greg Lynn and Patricia Piccinini. The
researcher also made folly staff aware of his research wiki that had a list of links
to examples of work that were considered to fit the curatorial brief. This was
acceptable and the potential nature of the partnership was discussed. We
indicated there were line items in the budget for a project and outreach
coordinator and a pr/marketing professional and asked if folly would be
interested in taking on these project management roles. They were very
80 The first work mentioned in Rosalind Krauss’s ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ is Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys,
1978 by Mary Miss. This was stuck together with a statement made at the end of the Wachowski brothers’ 1999 film
‘The Matrix’ where Keanu Reeves’ character Neo calls up the machine world that controls an enslaved humanity and
declares: "…I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without
you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we
go from there, is a choice I leave to you." Ergo - ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders.’
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