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Ariel Peshe (2)
Monday, April 07, 2008 
I had never curated a performance before being a part of Team One. I still feel that I have not curated a show. This, to me, is the most important part of the Team One process. No matter how much each of us had thought about the implications of curating and the power of our choices, none of us had any singular power. Our collective aesthetic made the final decision. Team One created a show that could not have been put together by any one mind. Team One was about thinking deeply about artists we love. It was about considering the power of the curator, but in the end, relinquishing all power to the group. The beauty of Team One was in shaping a final product we ultimately could not shape
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Ariel Peshe

 
Team One: Thoughts by Curator Ariel Polonsky

I agree with Anne Zuerner in that I also feel that I have not curated a show. With great respect to AUNTS organizers, the final show was more a result of statistics than by a richly debated curation process. Time was the major limiting factor, as always in the creative process. There was time for each of us to propose an artist for curation, but not enough time to actually delve into the meaty part of the process: deciding what goals we had as a team, what role we wished to play as curators, and how we could come to a consensus as a group. By boiling it down to a top-three type voting system, it remained a popularity contest, as I assume many curatorial processes are. I would still love to try this again, allowing enough time to debate, argue, doubt, reaffirm and define.... let's do it again. All night this time!

Thanks for reading,
Ariel
 
Posted by Ariel Peshe on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:10 AM
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