You've produced projects of different lengths—the one-month residency, the pop-up show, a month-long show. What difference does duration make with your projects?...
You've produced projects of different lengths—the one-month residency, the pop-up show, a month-long show. What difference does duration make with your projects?...
Definitely the context informs certain aspects of how we present or promote the exhibition or show. With residencies there's a matter of camaraderie that develops with us and the artist, and that definitely affects how a show comes together. But photos of the installation extend the project.
We're less dependent on the circulation of images of our shows than we were when we were in Oregon, but we still rely on that. If it's a pop-up project or a one-night exhibition, what most people see is the documentation of it.
But one of the nice things about having a physical space is that we can leave something up for the normal six weeks and give the show time. So it's more a response to the physical space of the gallery than to the speed of online space. Having a space and wanting to do a lot with it, but knowing we have it allows us to let it be and let it live.
We were so used to doing a show a month every month for 9-10 months out of the year at Appendix, and each one would ential having somebody live with us for 3 weeks, so this seems pretty comfortable.