Taking notes...
Just to make some history here, we (Habda, Will, Francesca, Clementina and myself) are half-way through our first year as MA Curating the Contemporary students, the first organised by London Metropolitan University and in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery. Yes, we're the guinea pigs. Our main assignment for May 2010 will be to curate and organise a show; so the first thing we thought among others was: "We need a blog."
It's just a perfect way to share images, materials, and ideas that will add to the main core of our work. The first show meeting we had was seasoned with Italian food and hosed with too much wine, but nonetheless some ideas begun to stir. Today we had our second meeting, which was very productive.
First of all, we were thinking about some themes for the show and a very intriguing one was: brainwaves. The brain is a space that contains informations and those informations could be mapped, but the result is like a maze. There's a whole world in here: space, the gallery space seen as active/inactive, time, connections, modern technologies like the internet or the unsolved questions, like those raised in this article here.
Secondly, we might have chosen the title of the show, but we are not going to tell you. Yet. The solution is so much within reach that you'll be baffled.
It is all about perception, in the end. The title of this post, for example, refers to what Claude Monet said to a journalist when he asked, quite sarcastically, where his studio was. Since they were in the open air, our beloved Claude made a gesture and said: "Voilà mon atelier!" Meaning: "This is my studio!"
That simple sentence changed the perception of contemporary art for the years to come.
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