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28. Has being involved in PBB had any effect on your thinking about
creative disciplines?
Creative I don’t think it has.
Director
Programme I’ve benefited from having my eyes opened a little bit more.
Manager We worked on inviting certain people to make proposals and
if anything we found that the more interesting work was
coming out of the open call. I know that you worked quite
hard at getting certain people to make proposals in the open
call and that has influenced me in terms of how we are
developing f.city for 2007.
The partners were asked if the experience of the exhibition had any effect on
their thinking about creative disciplines. CD did not think it had. PM thought
that it had made him think more broadly. PM also thought the experience of the
exhibition would alter folly’s approach to commissioning in the future. They
were more likely to solicit work from open calls and participate in the
development of new works because of the experience of ‘PBB’.
29. How did you find working with Fast-uk?
Creative …we should have been a bit more thorough with our
Director negotiations around how we wanted to tackle the
marketing side of it as there was a bit of tension there in
the middle… The opportunity to work with so many new
artists and the opportunity to be involved in that curatorial
decision-making element. I think that if we hadn’t had that
part of it, it would have been more of a delivery role but
because we felt very involved in that there was ownership
from our side on that so I think that worked well… we felt
quite clear where our responsibilities lay and where yours
did. That could have been difficult but it didn’t seem to be,
that was successful.
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