- Isn't it naturally a good thing that emerging artists should struggle?

Tayto like good things and are nice fans of abusing cultural constructs such as 'nature' for their own advantage. Tayto think that it is very good that emerging artists should struggle since it maintains a division of labour that favours Tayto et Tayto. Tayto has gotten big Euros from Norway to research means to make the struggle much harder. Tayto's research leads them to conclude that emerging artists must drink the sour milk of distrust and competition, that they should not enjoy even the least light of comfort, that they should experience nothing but weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; there should not be the light of the sun, or the moon, or the strip-light, all should be dark and black, black devils, black souls, and emerging artists may without light have perceivance one of another; or if there be a duskish light there, to represent one another's rueful countenances, and other frightful spectacles. To ensure these conditions leave them gagging for a bite at the golden carrot, Tayto would like to establish wide open spaces that identify entirely with the latest trends, such as employing emerging artist in sweat-shop conditions to bring potatoes to developing countries in return for conducting ongoing inspections of suspected nuclear development sites.

- Why has curating become an academicised thing? What effect has this had?

Tayto was not aware that "curating' were included an 'academical' thing, it's much more 'out there' in the everyday spaces. Tayto see what was called 'curating' in the 20th century as an artistic movement for an inter-media-terranean policy, social processes exchange and interaction between the various cults, recognising that there is a possibility to propose and activate dynamics capable of giving rise to new assets. Tayto suppose that curating is very sexy and futurist, for example, influenced by Tayto's Esperanto Macromedia Flash presentation attached to lightweight Teflon boom arm supporting a variety of mounting system components for plasma screens, self-clamping iBooks and a plastic cup-holder for Tayto's Mad Dog 20-20 Key Lime Pie Destruction. Tayto hope that it will allow everyone to become normative and make the same art/resource/interface by acquiring new roles for labour and interpersonal relations both really and metaphorically, developing a series of directions for their research and collaboration by laying down models for education in the arts and how these encounters are grafted on to the general activity of extensive structuring of a network of contacts, programmes and initiatives that, through artistic creativity, will lead to new dimensions and inter-community relationships among the definition of the city. Tayto think it would be good the whole world could discuss the directions the project could take on inter-community so as people that aren't Tayto can get involved and can communicate all that goes into more detail than "new dimension dialogue and relationships among the 'definite'."

- Given the historical precedence of fringe events from the first 'Salon des Indépendants' through to 'Liste' and 'Scope', has the plethora of alternative or complementary art events become as conservative and limited as the main events to which they attach themselves? Are they in effect vying to become what they purport to be an alternative to?

Hairdressing salons are the enemy of fringes, but not are both any alternative to cutting edge systems that give you a professional haircut and styling results in the convenience of your own resource area. Tayto's own sustainable hair cutting system is so easy to use that anyone can achieve a perfect haircut every time - even with your eyes closed. Ha. Tayto make a very serious metaphorical joke. In the Tayto resource area there have never been any centralisation or fringed spaces only a perpetual search for future various cultures, recognising that the purpose and activities capable of giving dynamics to civil society, including 'politics' can (and will) take place. Tayto thinks it's more that these are the areas of research that they have communicated that they are interested in developing whilst they are keen to organise and activate in response to the provisional project structuring outline based in the resource area implied by a salon/fringe joke metaphor above. It would be gooder to start contact to see what possible eventualities can be opened up, expanding the development that has already taken place and making sure that actions and exchanges can bare fruit whilst a continual emphasis is placed on round table compatibility, opening up a series of topics inside relations implied by organising provisional project inter-communities outlined in the independent salon/fringe binary. Of course, it's all very well Tayto writing about this. Hey, let's stop asking questions about alternatives and get round the table and actually talk about them.