The Drawing is a project in which, as a group and as individuals, we are playing different roles. All the roles are essential. All roles are inevitable. The project, as a process, demand commitment in all the roles that we are playing. I have thought about that and about the Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) corresponding idea of Ausstellungsmacher, that is to say "the one who puts on an exhibition".
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| Harald Szeemann archive. |
The Szeemann definition of Ausstellungsmacher corresponds to a list of functions, namely manager, administrator, conservator, financier, diplomat, amateur, author of different kind of texts, librarian, archivist and so on.
Hans Ulrich Obrist expands and adds this definition applying other functions, such as communicator, researcher, transporter and guard.
The Drawing project evolves within this idea: change and shift function so to play different roles (useful to the achievement of the final result). In this context, experiencing functions is equivalent to develop several professional skills.
Moreover, this complex process creates an heterogeneous ammount of documentation that will constitute, as well, an heterogeneous archive. The archive, as evidence of the process, will be part of the final exhibition.
Michele Drascek
About the heterogeneous archive:
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Michele Drascek