This was a really interesting lecture. It covered an exhbition, from the initial idea for the concept of the exhibition, to picking out the artists, to the set up of the space and finally showing the actual show. He and his crew were asked to put on an "America" show in Berlin Germany. They decided on trying to do a play on a traveling carnival show. To build inspiration, they looked through artists like Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus and drew up connections to their work and carnivals; and were then able to more clearly select artists for their show.
Then ended up having the show in an empty factory with which they set up like a carnival. The artists they chose all had relations to carnivals/carnival culture in their work. One of the artists even had a set up carousel. They had a former VCU sculpture student in the show with a sculpture of a skeletal superman hanging from the ceiling. They left the space relatively free and open for people to walk through as if they were at a real carnival. The video instillations were set up out in the open, rather than hidden away in seperate rooms like they normally are, so that you could see them from across the exhibition space like you would see an attraction from across a carnival, and it draws you to it. I think they did a really good job of taking this initial idea and carrying it out through the final show.
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