Brief Encounters - recent international interactive installation

"The Brief Encounters project will reinforce, in the context of contemporary practice in the studio and the gallery, the close relationship between the working space and the showing space, the private activity of making and looking, the public activity of installing and debating. It will be achieved in four phases: curatorial research, commissioning of artists, production residency / exhibition and a conference. The research phase is the subject of this proposal and will lead towards identifying the six artists who will be invited to a six-week residency in the Artspace studios, to work together on individual installations as part of a specific Artspace exhibition. A conference will conclude the project and event, though the installations will be de-mountable and will be offered for touring. A separate proposal from myself and Artspace in 2004 will address the post-research phase of the project." Extract from funding for unsuccesful funding proposal to Australia Council.