[A]nalogies like that [between music and art, ed.] are very dangerous, because of course art isn't made with a score, and I think we have to resist the temptation to search for something like a score because it is really not like that. But it is a helpful analogy when you look at the different forms of practice. That is what I was trying to capture with the use of Steven Davies' idea of thinly and thickly specified. What we need to understand is the influence of the artists' practice to how, as custodians, we take the work forward. There are different ways of doing that, but what we saw in Suchan Kinoshita's talk is that the whole relationship of collaboratin [between artist and museum, ed.] is evolving.
Laurenson, Panel Discussion 2006, Transcript p.1
I am also very much in favour of misinterpretations. I don't think that they may be avoided completely, or that we are completely in control. I think it's interesting for both artists and museums to get this dialogue from time to time, as a sort of exchange, because you do change as a museum, you do change as an artist, and the whole context of the artwork changes. Somehow you want to keep it fresh and re-engage with the work from another point of view.
Kinoshita, Lecture 2006
