Spatial Intersections

Spatial Intersection IV Interview with City Channel 4, "Arts Agenda:"

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Spatial Intersections is a somewhat annual show of time-based media and performance at the University of Iowa Museum of Art put on jointly by students in the departments of Intermedia and Electronic Music Composition. In previous years I had participated in the show, and in Fall 2006, I curated Spatial Intersections IV. Rather than choosing previously created artworks to include, I decided to curate the process by which the artworks to be shown were created. In order to participate, artists submitted samples of past work, and then I paired them up with other artists of similar or complimentary style in order to produce a new collaborative work for the show.

The show's approach found me in a state of extreme stress--I had no idea whether the work to be presented would be good or terrible, and I had long before relinquished control of the outcome. But on that cold and rainy October night, a crowd of several hundred gathered at the museum to watch. The work was superb, the crowd was enthusiastic, the show was a success. After the show I breathed a huge sigh of relief and thought, "this is what art is all about."

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