Katherine Reynolds
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statement house (temporary title), 2015
Photographer: Jean-Pascal Flavien -
statement house (temporary title), 2015
Photographer: Max Alexis Brook -
statement house (temporary title), 2015
Photographer: Max Alexis Brook -
statement house (temporary title), 2015
Photographer: Max Alexis Brook
statement house (temporary title)
statement house (temporary title) is an ambitious commission by Berlin-based French artist Jean-Pascal Flavien. It continues his international series of houses for living and working.
A plan for a house, statement house (temporary title) displays evidence of past process as well as potential for development: remnants of making in the form of truncated corners are left behind in the space, while a circular indentation on the floor indicates where a bathroom could be.
Over its two month duration, statement house (temporary title) will host invited writers engaged in a process of 'writing the house'. Writing is defined here in expansive terms, to include a way of writing with the house's furniture and wooden 'plans': unrealised versions of the structure’s footprint which are arranged and rearranged inside and around the house, as well as the adjacent exhibition space. Throughout the project, poet Tan Lin will be inhabiting the house remotely from New York, tweeting lines of poetry and scenarios, which will inform the activity inside the house.
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MA Degree
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School of Humanities
Programme
MA Curating Contemporary Art, 2015
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My curatorial practice is concerned with a perceived shift in the relationship between curating and producing contemporary art. This model of curatorial practice, described by Paul O’Neil and Claire Doherty in Locating the Producers as being carried out by ‘curator-producers’, can be observed as the curator begins to take a more active role in the production of contexts, conditions and publics surrounding an artwork, raising questions of authorship and blurring the boundaries between artist and curator.
I have recently worked with French artist Jean-Pascal Flavien to conceive and produce statement house (temporary title), a large-scale, outdoor artwork that continued Flavien’s international series of houses for living, resting and working. For its two-month duration, myself and my co-curator inhabited statement house (temporary title), along with New York-based experimental poet Tan Lin, who engaged with the house remotely using Twitter. During this time, our activities in the house contributed to a process of ‘writing the house’: producing its meaning, again questioning authorship and the lack of distinction between a curatorial gesture and an artistic gesture.
This interest in working closely with artists and questioning the traditional, authorial role of the curator stems from my experience working at the South London Gallery on their long-term, community commissioning programme, SLG Local. These questions of curatorial authorship were then further explored during an internship at the Liverpool Biennial, where I undertook research ahead of a unique week-long residential research project, The Residents, which invited a group of artists, curators, activists, housing developers, designers, architects and writers to consider a framework for the next Biennial through engaging with the local area together.
Current projects include Exit Strategies, a publication and accompanying exhibition produced with Black Dog Publishing and students from the RCA Photography course, in which traditional roles are, again, subverted: a writer taking authorial control of a meta-narrative throughout the photo-book, using us, the artists, editors, curators and designers, as characters in a wider fiction.
I am committed to continuing working closely with artists on new commissions, supporting artistic practices from the conception of projects, through production to realisation, aiming to continually expand and question my own notions of curating and producing contemporary art.