ICPP → 600 Highwaymen

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This interview took place within the framework of the course "Entrepreneurial Strategies." It was recorded over Skype on Friday July 26, 2019.

Timeline of Research Encounters

• Public Event: 600 HIGHWAYMEN, The Fever, February 28–March 2, 2019, CFA Theater, Wesleyan University

• Private Interview: ICPP Interview #1 with 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Entrepreneurial Strategies, Wesleyan University, March 1, 2019 (transcript only)

• Private Interview: ICPP Interview #2 with 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Entrepreneurial Strategies, Wesleyan University, July 26, 2019 (transcript and video)

• Private Interview: ICPP Interview #3 with 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Entrepreneurial Stratgies, Zoom, Friday January 15, 2021 (transcript only)

Interview Framework

• What brought you to your work?

• Who brought you to your work? What relations were key? How would you describe the approach of the curators or presenters who made the most difference and the relationships you developed as a result?

• What have been some key moments of establishment, growth, and transition? Let’s make a list of periods, and feel free to keep adding to the different periods (we can use paper on the wall to chart different moments). In this section, you should feel free to identify the good moments, as well as the harder lessons and experiences of failure.

• What was some of the key knowledge you have picked up in those identified stages?

• What would you tell the earlier 600 Highwaymen about how to build relations and networks? Similarly, what insight/advice do you offer to incoming artists whose practice reflects/relates to your own?

• By your own account has the field changed since you started working?

• You wake up tomorrow as “Tzar of the Arts”: what big ideas would you bring to the field? Be as hyperbolic as possible. If you want to present an idea anonymously, just let us know.

Questions prepared by Paul Bonin Rodriguez and Sarah Wilbur