protoPLAY

Nadege Derderian is protoPLAY curator.

With protoPLAY, I have been setting up collaborative strategies for best developing and displaying transdisciplinary and process led work, exploring the concepts of evolutive displays, cultural recycling and the live development of work within the frame of art events.

Today’s art needs to have the ability to change, the ability to adapt to cultural, geographical and political circumstances or contexts. Cutting across and between mediums, forms and contexts, the creative process becomes a dynamic mapping and exploration of change and process and beginnings and endings- being in term of evolution, decoupage or cultural fluidity. By exploring the point of intersection between different disciplines and different individual practices, my goal is to create a space necessary for a collective creative and learning process. Art needs to be experimental in concept, form and representation, and I encourage artists to celebrate risk.

Continual unfolding of collaborative possibilities provide a haven where risks and experiments can be taken each day, rather safely reproducing ‘dead’ art. protoPLAY events extrapolate from the specific to the general, from the certain to the ambiguous, and ultimately can be seen as a way to consider how one might position oneself in a broader world view. It seems more important now than ever to celebrate the playful, the in-between; and to make the connection between a collective creativity which re-questions boundaries and set identities, with a way of living.

Nadege is also a steering committee member at Permanent Gallery (www.permanentgallery.com), where she is an exhibition project manager and also curates a quarterly programme of Live Art and Music, Testing Grounds.