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Four visitors indicated the diversity and variety of works in the exhibition was
the feature of the exhibition they most liked. Another four pointed to aspects of
the way the exhibition space had been set up as most satisfying for them.
However, almost a fifth of those surveyed mentioned characteristics of the
venue as their least favourite quality of the exhibition. Four visitors were
dissatisfied with the information available and one suggested the opening times
were inconvenient for them.
5.5.4 Partner interviews
The researcher conducted interviews with two representatives of partnering
organisation folly that had been involved throughout the management of the
project and had participated on the curatorial panel for the ‘PBB’ exhibition.
The main aim of these interviews was to examine:
• folly’s expectations of the exhibition
• folly’s experience of the exhibition
• any impact the exhibition had on folly
Analysis was made of the data gathered from these interviews to reveal issues
and indications of patterns or themes relevant to the theoretical framework of
this study. ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders’ was considered to have
supported and extended folly’s mission. It was an opportunity for the
organisation to adopt a ‘design agenda’ that had not been represented in the
work they had done so far. The exhibition provided a type of experience for
their audience that was not just screen or web-based but was physically
manifest in objects. The exhibition was considered as a hub around which they
were able to build the wider f.city Festival of Digital Culture. Slight concerns
were expressed the exhibition had skewed audience perception of folly’s mission
and they would expect more product and exhibition-led activity from them in
future. During the project the collaborative website (wiki) the researcher set up
to be used by the members of the project team had been useful in coordinating
between the project partners and it proved a useful tool to indicate the potential
‘look and feel’ of the exhibition.
folly welcomed the collaborative nature of the curatorial selection process but
acknowledged the overall vision was set by Fast-uk. Only half of the works in
the exhibition were within folly’s traditional remit. However, this was
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