Hi Lisa,
In 2015, we held a public meeting (not a private interview session) with multiple artists proposers for a sculpture project. The city’s television station provided
a crew and created a short segment about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0pD2xcScI. It was a great opportunity to engage
our internal media crew and generate some support for the process and project within the community.
Thank you,
Rebecca Holden
Visual Arts Specialist II | Public Art
City of Las Vegas | Office of Cultural Affairs
702-229-5431
495 S. Main St. | Las Vegas, NV 89101
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Weighing in – Renee’s point is valid. Being filmed during an interview for a public art project would leave the highly skilled and highly capable finalists who
were not selected hanging out in this film as “losers”. It would be potentially humiliating, and would certainly have needed to be shared with the artists before they signed up to participate in such a process.
To Andy’s point, transparency and trust in public art is required from public commissioning agencies, but this isn’t the way to get there.
Susan Lambe, PLA, CNU-A
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I would argue just the opposite. This is “public” art for a government project. With all the hoohah about public art for and against, a video available on the selection
process can be a very valuable learning experience for the naysayers and those accusing government agencies of wasting funds.
I for one, totally appreciate the video documentaries on PBS, Nat Geo, e tc, about creation and process and the behind the scenes that allow the viewer to understand the
complexities and people behind those projects.
Making a public art selection process creates transparency and trust
Andy Witt
Andrew Witt
Executive Director
St Johns Cultural Council
15 Old Mission Avenue
St Augustine, FL 32084
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Dear Lisa,
I think this idea is somewhere on the range of very uncomfortable to terrible. It sets up an unprofessional environment for what is in effect a job interview and turns the public art process
for this project into an episode of “America’s Got Talent.”
I would ask your colleagues at this corporation if they often interview candidates for other jobs within their company and if they would ever make a video featuring the people who lost the job.
I am guessing this is not part of their regular practice. But keep us posted. Maybe this is part of their HR process?
I can also see the possibility of taped interviews creating an environment where the panel to not want to express themselves with complete honesty during the review process because they are uncomfortable
with the filming.
If you do continue with this, the fact that the interviews will be filmed and potentially made public needs to be included in the call for artists so artists have the opportunity to make a decision
whether or not they are comfortable with this idea from the beginning.
Sincerely,
Renee
Renee Piechocki
reneepiechocki.com
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Lisa Mariam wrote:
All,
We’re coordinating the artist selection process for a public art project at a corporate headquarters, and five finalists will present and interview later this month. The firm would like to document the process by filming the presentation/interviews and incorporating them into a video about the final work.
Have you had any experience with filming presentations, and if so have you used a waiver that you could share?
Thank you,
Lisa
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