Curatorville (2012)
Curatorville is a project that follows my previous project entitled Home. Curatorville is a map of a fictional city that has several houses and residents. The residents are all curators. The project is a fictional interpretation of the domestic space in which curators live and comparing it in the context of other curators’ homes. The homes exists only as an idea and their parts are marked with words. The method of this project is critically reflective site-specificity, i.e. considerations for defining the here and now; critical thinking about relations that occur instantaneously. Site-specificity here is seen not only as a concrete, specific place or part of the architecture, but also as concrete and specific relations and relationships. These relations of choice are the ones that occur between curators and between curators, artists and institutions. Curatorville is generative project in character and is build upon an autonomous system proposed by the author. By proposing this system, the project segments are generating their own relations to each other, without any further need for intervention.
The curators, residents of the city, are not real persons, but stereotypical characters that are inspired by the common curator types. They will only be marked with their name written on the map, depending in which house they live, but will not be performed by real persons in order to get the idea of an individual without a physical reference.
Through representation of the idea of the home and its segments (rooms and objects), the project tries to pose several questions: What if all these types of curators were neighbors? Would they help each other for any everyday household problems? Would they feed each other’s pets while away? Would they play loud music just to annoy each other? Would they clean their own doorsteps, so that the whole street is clean? Would they cooperate?
The project was developed and exhibited during the bm:ukk Artist-in-Residence Program in Vienna, Austria.
Ready-made Box, Prints, Text
Curatorville is a project that follows my previous project entitled Home. Curatorville is a map of a fictional city that has several houses and residents. The residents are all curators. The project is a fictional interpretation of the domestic space in which curators live and comparing it in the context of other curators’ homes. The homes exists only as an idea and their parts are marked with words. The method of this project is critically reflective site-specificity, i.e. considerations for defining the here and now; critical thinking about relations that occur instantaneously. Site-specificity here is seen not only as a concrete, specific place or part of the architecture, but also as concrete and specific relations and relationships. These relations of choice are the ones that occur between curators and between curators, artists and institutions. Curatorville is generative project in character and is build upon an autonomous system proposed by the author. By proposing this system, the project segments are generating their own relations to each other, without any further need for intervention.
The curators, residents of the city, are not real persons, but stereotypical characters that are inspired by the common curator types. They will only be marked with their name written on the map, depending in which house they live, but will not be performed by real persons in order to get the idea of an individual without a physical reference.
Through representation of the idea of the home and its segments (rooms and objects), the project tries to pose several questions: What if all these types of curators were neighbors? Would they help each other for any everyday household problems? Would they feed each other’s pets while away? Would they play loud music just to annoy each other? Would they clean their own doorsteps, so that the whole street is clean? Would they cooperate?
The project was developed and exhibited during the bm:ukk Artist-in-Residence Program in Vienna, Austria.
Ready-made Box, Prints, Text
