The Budget
“Seemingly straightforward, the exhibition budget takes the form of a spreadsheet that intends to capture the cost or expenses of a production against incoming funding or revenue. Ideally, expense and revenue would match, but rarely do they hold. Because exhibition budgets are drafted before the actual production of an exhibition, they are often documents of conjecture, offering a speculative cost of materials to be consumed, time to be deployed, and labor to be commissioned“
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Essay contribution to Solicited: Proposals, a project by James Foster Taylor, ArkDes and e-flux Architecture with contributions by Maria Lind, Shirley Surya, Prem Krishnamurthy, Mpho Matsipa, amongst others.
“Seemingly straightforward, the exhibition budget takes the form of a spreadsheet that intends to capture the cost or expenses of a production against incoming funding or revenue. Ideally, expense and revenue would match, but rarely do they hold. Because exhibition budgets are drafted before the actual production of an exhibition, they are often documents of conjecture, offering a speculative cost of materials to be consumed, time to be deployed, and labor to be commissioned“
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Essay contribution to Solicited: Proposals, a project by James Foster Taylor, ArkDes and e-flux Architecture with contributions by Maria Lind, Shirley Surya, Prem Krishnamurthy, Mpho Matsipa, amongst others.
The Budget. Illustration: Andreas Samuelsson/Agent Molly & Co.