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I think it probably has because it has made us realise that like I was saying right
at the beginning about the tangible nature and some ways in for audiences is to
better understand the work of the artists that we work with and the work that
we do. So I think that will probably feed into our curatorial thinking from now
on.
28. Has being involved in PBB had any effect on your thinking about
creative disciplines?
I don’t think it has.
29. How did you find working with Fast-uk?
Fantastic, really good, really great. Obviously throughout the process both sides
learned about things and probably earlier on we should have been a bit more
thorough with our negotiations around how we wanted to tackle the marketing
side of it as there was a bit of tension there in the middle . I think we could have
probably eased that if we had had those discussions more upfront but obviously
some of time that’s easy to say in retrospect before hand you don’t always know
what is going to happen or what’s going to be difficult. In general the project
management consultancy model worked - there was some difficulties within
that but most of all many of those difficulties were definitely outweighed by the
success of the show, the impact of the show and the calibre of it. 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. I also think that the amount of hands on and hands off balance
was about right because we didn’t know how much you wanted to be involved in
the coordinating elements It was about that that I thought the balance was
about right and 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.
30. Would folly be interested in partnering on another show of this
kind?
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