CIVIC has grown from an exhibition into a larger project, a network of practitioners and researchers, in conversation about art, architecture and the city; about cultural institutions, place, space, writing & walking. The first manifestation of this project in 2014 was as an interrogation of the city, an invitation to propose architectural and other interventions for…
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In response to the question ‘What do curator’s do?’ I wrote this while developing the exhibition. What’s a curator to do? Why does this exhibition have a curator – what does a curator do? Role: curator, caretaker, carer, keeper, minder, co-ordinator, facilitator, organiser, administrator, middle-manager, cat-herder, nag… To make what? – an ‘exhibition of ideas’,…
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CIVIC Considering the City: Architecture, Art and the Urban Environment ‘When I decided to step out of the field of architecture, my first impulse was not to add to the city, but more to absorb what was already there, to work with the residues, or with the negative spaces, the holes, the spaces in between.’ –…
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CIVIC Building Blocks, 2014. Designed by Bella Kerr & Matthew Otten
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