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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Falmouth University
Mis-guided for Belluard Bollwerk International
Wrights & Sites curated projects by international artists; mentored the stages of development: created the Mis-Information Office, elements of the artists’ work were exhibited and maps for 'mis-guided' events were provided. Here, we hosted artists' dialogues and offered opportunities to walk, talk and construct situations with Wrights & Sites. Also the location for the launch of the festival, the M-I Office including an exhibition presentation by Wrights & Sites about our work and the significance of the chosen projects. My practical and theoretical contributions to Wrights & Sites is research on a continuum with the development of the company practice. We work with agreed and shared structures on each project whilst identifying the individual angle, lens and content that each member wishes to pursue. This allows for individual voices to thrive within collaborative outcomes.
My research into the contextual impact of this project surfaced via theoretical framing of the of the project; curatorial work with regard to selection of artists and discursive and mentoring practice in the delivery of experiential investigations of the city with the selected artists and public participants.
Our perception of space is shaped by habitual and conventional relationships to it, by the tangible and intangible laws of place. Our movement through city space is deeply affected by dominant spatial frameworks. These are constructed by municipal authorities, the tourism or heritage industries, architects and planners, estate agents, surveillance camera manufacturers, and so on, with the aid of devices such as guidebooks, maps/plans, information sheets, guided tours, CCTC and security, signposts and pathways.
As the backbone of the Belluard Bollwerk International 2008, we presented a programme of new „mis-guided” work aimed to disrupt and reveal the unexpected, the “elsewheres” in the city of Fribourg as ‘Mis-Guide’ events taking inspiration from Wrights & Sites initial concept.
