Harrell Fletcher is internationally renowned for facilitating exhibitions and events based on participation and collaboration, often with people who are usually not involved in making art. Fletcher spent a week in Melbourne during March of this year to meet potential participants for his project at the NGV. Over the course of the following two months, Fletcher and the NGV's Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, Alex Baker had an email exchange regarding the participants they would invite and what the parameters of the project might be. Despite Fletcher's collaborative generosity, he admits that there is a self-interested aspect to what he does as well: to learn more about a particular place where he will be working, in this instance, Melbourne and the NGV.
