#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#40: Follow the artist|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#111: Do it together.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#119: Be a space of production.|#28: Make Contracts.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#40: Follow the artist|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#111: Do it together.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#119: Be a space of production.|#28: Make Contracts.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|
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22.11.2018 00:00

Things come alive when there is friction

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Lunch Talk:
Alex Misick (CCA Glasgow)

Alex Misick (CCA Glasgow) on collaboration with the wider arts community through CCA’s "open source programme". With a response by performance artist Gordon Douglas, artist-in-residence at CCA Glasgow.

Kunsthal Gent wants to offer space for collaboration with many different partners. For inspiration we look at CCA Glasgow, the centre for contemporary art in Glasgow that developed a model of open source programming to facilitate collaboration with the broader arts field. Alex Misick, open source programme coordinator for CCA Glasgow, explains their method.

‘To make this policy work, two elements are vital. The first is co-ordination. As activities grew in the spaces, we created a role for someone to liaise and co-ordinate the multiple events across the building. The second vital element involves selection. Clearly such a policy could easily be taken advantage of or it could quickly become a kaleidoscope of random events. To prevent this, each event and every partner programme is considered internally and every new event must be proposed to CCA. (...) The benefits for everyone from this include a much greater feeling of ownership of the space by a wider spectrum of the arts community.' More info

Alex Misick works as Programme Coordinator at CCA Glasgow, overseeing the open-source partner programme that takes in excess of 1,000 events per year, alongside CCA's Creative Lab residency programme.

Gordon Douglas is a performance artist based in Glasgow. He is currently working with CCA Glasgow on a performative audit of their open-source policy, and a series of events titled 'An Opposites Programme' (2018-19) that intend to ‘make live’ this feedback.