What happens when artists and curators get together and self-organise? Sluice__ is a number of propositions never fully resolved. How do Artist/curator run galleries and projects defined primarily as sites of communication manifest? What position do/can/should we occupy in relation to the broader arts ecology, to the commercial art world, to institutionalism? How can we advance emergent discourse via increased interaction on a local, national and international level? Can adopting and re-purposing existing structures benefit the self organising artist and curator? How is social capital accrued, by what mechanisms and for what can it be exchanged? Does participation equal collaboration? Does authorship become fluid in the artist/curator run context? Is an exhibition an artwork? Is an organisation an artist?
Sluice__ is an art initiative run by an artist, a curator and an educationalist.
Sluice__ was formed as a provocation and foregrounds criticality as a central concern.
Sluice__ strategically adopts structures in order to showcase artist, curator and emergent discourse, projects and galleries.
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze