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The Chamber Maid: A performance and curatorial project which explores the role of the curator, and the notion of ‘Work’

The Chamber Maid was a performance and curatorial research project which examined the role of the curator, and the notion of ‘Work’; critiquing the way that artists and artist-curators are usually forced to do more than one ‘job’ at a time. The project was shown as a curatorial project and performance staged first in a design hotel, Motel Kandinski, in Brussels, during the Trajector Art Fair, a contemporary alternative art fair, running alongside Art Brussels in April 2011. Later the same year it was commissioned as a live event (5 November 2011) for Platform P, in the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth. The Chamber Maid involved curating miniature artworks, around the theme of hotels and motels, and showing them on a Chamber Maid’s trolley. The performance aspect involved cleaning the hotel, whilst talking about the works of art: doing what many artists and artist/curators do, namely, two jobs at once. Documentation from the performance was also shown in an exhibition in Stadt galerie, Salzburg, Aug-Sept. 2012 as part of an exhibition called CAMouflage, curated by Antonio Manfredi (Art Director of the Casoria Art Museum in Naples.)

Trajector art fair: http://www.trajectorartfair.org/exhibitors/pitt.htm

Trajector art fair: http://annafrancis.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/brussels-art-fair-and-trajector-art.html

Platform P: http://platformp.wordpress.com/about/

Platform P, Duke of Cornwall Hotel: https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/170738613015562/?ref=nf

Platform P: http://annafrancis.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/platform-p-at-duke.html

Review: http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/1688914