Ventilation
Artist Led Research Project (2009 ongoing)
Ventilation is a research project that I initiated in order to question how artists and institutions involve others in interacting with and producing art.
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Ventilation Zine is an experimental publication I produce as part of my research involving artists, curators, producers and writers. For the first edition I invited contributors to respond to the theme of Running Inbetween which was launched as part of Spike Island’s Zine Fest, October 2009. Contributions included drawings, diagrams, a love letter and a Minotaur. There will be a call out for the second issue soon which will be themed around stealth.
Front and back cover
Front and back cover
My starting point for setting up Ventilation was Running Inbetween, a seminar I led as part of engage International Summer School, Kilkenny, Ireland (July 2009).
During my seminar I worked with other delegates to examine how artists work with audiences or participants and institutions to mediate and produce art work. After sharing a number of images of bridges, diving boards, spring boards, barriers, ladders, ramps and ventilation systems I challenged delegates to draw or map the development of artist-led projects they were involved with. We then used these maps as a starting point to identify some of the systems, structures, strategies and roles that shaped the development of their work.
