Curating and Time - Part Two
Ooooh I still feel anxious and I'm not sure where it's coming from - but better spirits than yesterday and this morning. I feel ok, just emotional. I'm going to imagine transferring my narratives into my bicycle and when I go to ride it I will imagine all those sentences I wrote in Curating and Time - Part One lightly and gently will float away behind me.
I printed out some articles about curating today on my lunch break - ethics, responsibilities of a curator, curatorship and new media. I'm going to train my eye and sharpen my critical thinking and communicative skills. I feel like events planning and curatorship are similar in many ways for me when I begin to think of my personal philosophy of how I am concerned with how we experience spaces and how as and events planner in small ways I can help guide a participant's attention and more broadly, it's about creating/facilitating that positive and open space for people to engage with each other.
This is what I secretly think about at work - it goes beyond my job description as assistant:
Donor relationship building
Budgets and the sustainability and tradition of signature events
Social justice and aligning with the university's mission statement
How our office (my boss and I) interacts and works and develops relationships with other departments
Paying attention to participants' experiences
Why events are important and what purpose events have
Until the end of my contract, I'm commit myself to:
-Being loyal to my boss and helping her throw the best events possible, everytime.
-Having fun.
-Chatting with people and learning something new about them when I have the opportunity and time to.
-Contributing ideas and not being afraid to be assertive about them, but doing it respectfully.
Work is a good place for me to exercise different parts of myself.
My boss extended her vacation until Wednesday; I hope I will have Thursday and atleast Friday off.
I feel like being impulsive.
I printed out some articles about curating today on my lunch break - ethics, responsibilities of a curator, curatorship and new media. I'm going to train my eye and sharpen my critical thinking and communicative skills. I feel like events planning and curatorship are similar in many ways for me when I begin to think of my personal philosophy of how I am concerned with how we experience spaces and how as and events planner in small ways I can help guide a participant's attention and more broadly, it's about creating/facilitating that positive and open space for people to engage with each other.
This is what I secretly think about at work - it goes beyond my job description as assistant:
Donor relationship building
Budgets and the sustainability and tradition of signature events
Social justice and aligning with the university's mission statement
How our office (my boss and I) interacts and works and develops relationships with other departments
Paying attention to participants' experiences
Why events are important and what purpose events have
Until the end of my contract, I'm commit myself to:
-Being loyal to my boss and helping her throw the best events possible, everytime.
-Having fun.
-Chatting with people and learning something new about them when I have the opportunity and time to.
-Contributing ideas and not being afraid to be assertive about them, but doing it respectfully.
Work is a good place for me to exercise different parts of myself.
My boss extended her vacation until Wednesday; I hope I will have Thursday and atleast Friday off.
I feel like being impulsive.