Michael Mayhew Response #1
Dear Nicola,
I am pleased to inform you that we would like to invite you to engage with us for The Practicalities of Documentation.
The aim of this over lapping project is to generate a discourse and enquiry into the processes and actualities of documentation within performance practice.
We plan to bring people together for 10th November.
We will then document 11 performances on 11th November as part of 11 11 11 – in remembrance – Manchester.
This material will be then employed to generate a sound and visual installation immediately following – in remembrance –
I am keen to know more about how you aim to blog in the chapel.
Also what equipment you will be employing –
The material of any of the performances you capture, as part of in remembrance will be later employed to generate an on-line archive for 11 11 11 – We ask that you make available this material before leaving Manchester, enabling the project to generate the planned archive.
The material of any of the performances you capture, as part of in remembrance must be accessible to the project and to the artists whose work it originally was.
The documentation of artists work is at times a contentious issue this situation will challenge issues of ownership and rights to the material remaining following the performance moment.
It will request open and generous negotiation and dialogue from all engaging with this project.
If you can confirm engaging with the above than please inform me of your arrival time into Manchester.
10th November
We begin at 10.00am
Platt Chapel
Wilmslow Road
Manchester
M14 5LL
We will go on till 4.00pm.
We will meet the artists and aim to eat in my studio around 6.00pm.
11th November.
We will aim to begin and set up for 9.00am
You will work in a series of rota’s which will be organised with you on the 10th, depending on work that you wish to follow and develop a relationship with.
If you need more information please don’t hesitate in contacting me.
Regards
Michael Mayhew
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Hello Michael,
This is fantastic news, I am happy to accept your invitation. I intend to blog on site over the two days if possible at set intervals say every 2/3 hours. I have a laptop and I wanted to find out if there is wi-fi at the church? If not I could borrow a dongle. I will set-up a new project blog on a-n artist talking and also publish on Newworknetwork website. Links to the blogs are accessible to the public although I feel it would be great if it could also be listed on the project archive.
Do you or the project have a twitter account? This is a quick and dynamic platform to comment on the event. As a back up if there is no access to the Internet or in conjunction with it I could use my phone to continually tweet and get the audience/participants to tweet over the two days. Currently I have a twitter account and have 600 followers, which I could use.
I live in Manchester so it will be easy for me to get to Platt Chapel.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
Nicola Smith
