Alexander Taber
MA work
MA work
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Echo Chamber, Chloe Lamford 2015
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The Response, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet 2014 (revised 2015)
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Nocturnal Committee: Session 24, 14/3/2125. Ora Serrata: recovered fragments of an unbearable body, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson 2015
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On Between Again, The ARKA Group 2015
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Red Rot, Bedwyr Williams 2015
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Marked For Bloom, Living in the Future 2015
Echo Chamber
Echo Chamber was a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration between theatre
designer, Chloe Lamford (Royal Court Theatre Associate Artist) and a curatorial
team. The theatrical set designed by Lamford, presents a dystopian science-fiction
future as the site of live interventions by international contemporary artists.
Based on a fictional narrative written by the curators, we are located in 2125, a time
when material resources are scarce. This has resulted in a ban on wasteful activities,
art included. A data-wipe in 2080 has left us without record of creative histories.
We are in a time robbed of culture. Echo Chamber is the gathering place of a small
resistance movement, a transient space for art to temporarily exist, a place where
ideas reverberate, but can never leak into the outside world.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Curating Contemporary Art, 2015
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Contact
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My current interest in curatorial practice and academic research lies in artistic methods of knowledge exchange in alternative display approaches.
 My experience stems from a number of institutional, editorial and public programme led positions. This has informed my interest in the role of the curator as information provider and how the exhibition space acts as a conceptual site of contemplation. My MA dissertation looked into four examples that challenge the conventions of this exchange: The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, London, The Center of Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles and Learning from the Museum (A.C.A.D.E.M.Y), The Netherlands. Recently I co-curated, Echo Chamber (2015), an exhibition that blurred the lines between fact and fiction and challenged the conventions of the exhibition space through the commissioning of a theatrical set and temporal interventions by artists.
I plan to develop my interests in knowledge exchange and display further through practice and research.