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The door that does not fit the frame

Movement Gallery, Worcester, 2012

Collaboration with Dr Jonathan Gilhooly

This short artist/curator residency involved working with Movement's existing archive of exhibition material (and other general paraphernalia) from previous events currently located within the purpose-built storage units to the rear of the gallery. The residency was used as an opportunity to work with the archive, materially and symbolically, and to (re-) examine/interrogate the role of the archive in the early stages of an artist-run gallery's development. The frequently short lifespan of artist-run spaces means that archiving is usually de-prioritised, and exploratory practice is lost to history, or endures only in the recounted memories of those in attendance. The response addressed associated issues such as the significance of institutional self-knowledge, and the taxonomy of self-organised contemporary art projects.

Additional loaned objects from the collection of Worcester Art Gallery and Museum were placed within the gallery to explore alternative temporary archival solutions for Movement's existing material. Built at the end of the 19th Century, but housing a collection that originated several decades earlier, the museum embodies all of the attractions, challenges and idiosyncrasies that are the result of acquisitional longevity – a condition so-to-speak at the opposite end of the temporal spectrum to that of Movement