Harrell Fletcher
By (Author) Alex Baker
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
1st May 2013
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Performance art
700.904
Paperback
Width 149mm, Height 212mm, Spine 6mm
153g
Harrell Fletcher is internationally renowned for facilitating exhibitions and events based on participation and collaboration, often with people who are usually not involved in making art. Fletcher spent a week in Melbourne during March of this year to meet potential participants for his project at the NGV. Over the course of the following two months, Fletcher and the NGV's Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, Alex Baker had an email exchange regarding the participants they would invite and what the parameters of the project might be. Despite Fletcher's collaborative generosity, he admits that there is a self-interested aspect to what he does as well: to learn more about a particular place where he will be working, in this instance, Melbourne and the NGV.