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I think that we were very fortunate that we could change things right at the last
moment. The only thing that I would have done differently was change the
entry sequence. Our council partners were reluctant for us to do anything in
that space, I still think that we could have a bigger splash on the front of the
glass particularly if it had been a piece of work an artists work represented in
that respect.
13. What would you do differently if you had the opportunity?
I think that what I would have wanted to do was again much as I refer to it being
much like a laboratory, much more process evidence during the three weeks of
the run. So some thing may change some things may have evolved. Lionel
Dean’s piece we expected there to be much more of a sense of evolution
particularly in the animation. The animation I felt was disappointing because
the objects themselves are incredibly beautiful and the animation dumbed it
down and I would have liked to have worked with Lionel to have developed that
animation in some respects to show how those tendrils and suckers were
actually formed. I know it was a contentious point when Lionel was there and I
had to take a step back and accept that this wasn’t ideal but it was the process
side of things. I wanted the process side of things to be evident in the show as a
whole and that was one thing that could have been really great and really it
wasn’t. So if I was going to change anything I would like to think that certain
works would have evolved in a way grow as a working practice taking place. It
would have been wonderful to have had a machine a rapid prototyping machine
or a CNC mill or something like that. The rooms themselves being glass encased
rooms we could have easily had a workshop in there kept it dust free, people
could have looked in the glass, easy-peasy, Although we didn’t actually have
that it was happening in the installation room because we had Justin Marshall
doing the same thing. Would it have helped the show, would it have helped
people’s understanding of the show to have some process happening during the
run? Even if Aoife Ludlow’s piece, the interface of that works too fast over the
course of a day it just became a big white mass. There was a process there but
you needed to pull it out a bit more and we couldn’t do that, we didn’t get to
work with the practitioners which I thought could have benefited certain pieces
of work. Although I was quite happy with the look and feel of the show as a
whole but we didn’t automatically get the opportunity to work with the artists.
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