Contract

Accidentally, again, we have decided not to go to Perth this time. We have concluded that it would be hard to bring enough audiences to the event if we manage it from a fat distance here in Sydney. We even did not have adequate budget to hire a person from Perth to take care of it. Less amount of job is good, but I lost an opportunity to go to Perth.

Now, we have got a contract to sign from the Exhibition Centre for venue hiring. It is my first time to examine this kind of contract. I have been dealt with several contracts with artists for our past exhibitions, but I have not involved with any venue hiring duty. The exhibition contract I have examined before helped a lot for me to check the terms and conditions of this venue hiring contract. Sometimes the contract seems to be pointless because I simply think if two or more people make a promise each other, they should conduct the promise naturally. However, people are not like that I believe. Which is a very sad truth.

While I am reading the contract, I felt that the venue hirer (us) is very disadvantaged. There are many limits that the hirer can conduct, although there are abundant rights that the venue owner can insist to us. I could imagine that the venue owner would like to minimise the risks that they will get from any misconduct of the venue hirer, but it seems a bit unfair.

The good thing is, however, most of the inconvincible limits that I have found from the contract could be negotiated with the venue manager. They provide us an enough space of negotiation for minor issues, such as restriction of taking photos, installing banners at the venue. I could see that they also would like to lease the venue to make profit. Simple economics.

The day is coming very quickly than I expected. I feel that I need to plan more and get ready well.