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We received forty-six submissions 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 (see Table 14). 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.
These ten sets of practitioners 83 were approached and informed that their
submissions had been successful. The others were informed they had not and
their documentation was returned. Theo Jansen and Chris Bosse had not
responded to our invitations for commissions from them. Since we still only
had 3 positive responses for the commissions the curatorial team decided to
drop one of the £2,500 commissions to enable us to have more resources to
support the open call works with additional funding for shipping and expenses
for the practitioners to install their work. Torolab had responded to our
invitation but we were still waiting for a proposal from them. Negotiations took
place amongst the curatorial team over who to invite for the remaining
commission. It was felt that architects were underrepresented in the selection
for the exhibition. The researcher had met and been impressed with the work of
Usman Haque and proposed that he might have something that was
appropriate. He was subsequently invited and proposed a suitable work for
83 Simon Blackmore (UK), Brit Bunkley(NZ), Simon Husslein (D), Tavs Jorgensen (DK), Geoffrey Mann (UK), Masaru
Tabei & Yasuno Miyauchi (JP), Ben Woodeson (UK), Gavin Baily & Tom Corby (UK), Aoife Ludlow (I), Justin
Marshall (UK).
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