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that sense it outweighed the negatives. But if the marketing had been tackled
differently I think that that was something that could have been achieved. I
would have liked to use that central space more effectively. The idea that people
could hang out was missing from it. People spent a long time at the show and
much longer than any other shows that we have put on. That was a great and
positive thing but there was nothing in there other than the work to help them
feel that they could spend time there or encourage people to do that. I think
that is something that could be improved on.
14. In your opinion, what was the strongest work in the exhibition
and why?
I think that the Human Beans piece was really strong for the reasons that I
mentioned before and the fact that it had a life beyond those three weeks, we felt
as a team that there was a massive amount of work leading up to those three
weeks which is ultimately very short time frame. The fact that this piece has had
a life beyond that particular exhibition for me makes it very strong and it had,
had a real relationship with the community. Obviously it could have been with
more people, but the people that were involved had a close relationship with
that work and I think it gave it a kind of humanity that often work with
technology arguably suffers from the lack of. So I think that was really strong
but I also think that there are other really strong pieces of work within the show.
Basically the first two rooms, for me, were the best two rooms so Usman
Haque’s piece although I know Phil is just a bit dubious about that one. I liked
the intent I don’t if you’ve talked to Phil about it but he absolutely wants to see
the truth behind it, for me I like the intent and therefore I think it is an
interesting project in how it’s conceived and how it’s presented. I also liked
‘Cyclone.soc’ piece although again originally I felt it was something seen already
or by another artist. I suppose I still think that slightly but the way it was
ultimately presented and the dynamism that it gave those spaces and the way
people have interacted with it made me feel that it worked very well. I also
thought that Geoffrey Mann’s piece was really strong and that was something
that we would not normally show at all at folly. Everybody loved that piece so it
was quite interesting to have the opportunity to show something like that we
probably wouldn’t ordinarily do and it’s really beautiful work. I’ve just forgotten
still one of my strong favourites which seems to have offended lots of people,
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