1. Interpretations research process
Presentation given by
Maureen Michael
Interpretations Research Coordinator
Friday 12 September 2008
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

2. Interpretations research process
How can we use interpretation to increase access to contemporary art, and to address perceived barriers to intellectual access?

3. Vocal
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
How does consulting a panel of audience members affect the delivery of interpretation for the Collective Gallery?

4. Minding The Gap
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
How can we support Gallery Assistants to operate in the perceived gap between organisational aspirations for and audience expectations of a contemporary art experience at DCA?

5. Reach Out
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
What interpretation strategies can we develop and adopt that will encourage and maintain interest from a locally-based audience?

6. Show Me Yours, I’ll Show You Mine
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
How do different audience interpretive communities receive and interpret artworks using a variety of tools and activities. How is this capability most effectively facilitated?

7. Interpretations process
A process of action research emerged for the whole Interpretations project, but also each gallery team had to negotiate a process to suit their own context.

8. Interpretations activities
Photographs, badges, games and chocolate biscuits were central to the shared tasks and discussions between the gallery teams.

9. Interpretations findings
How best to represent the questions, methods, contexts and outputs of each project?
Who is the representation for?

10. Interpretations timeline
This was an ambitious and challenging timeframe. Time for analysis is essential to working out what it all means.

11. Interpretations reporting
The gallery projects are diverse in their contexts, activities and outputs. What form of reporting would be meaningful to Interpretations and respectful of individual autonomy?

12. Interpretations structuring the final report
What is the purpose of a project report?
Who is it for and what should be in it?

13. Interpretations
The four gallery projects speak for themselves...

14. Interpretations
Interpretations was operated by engage Scotland and supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council and by the Hugh Fraser Foundation