Tuesday 31st
Spent most of today working on a new website,
http://alternativeplatform.googlepages.com/home
Total trial and error, but keep getting requests to see my work on line, so had to go for it.
no spell checker though so feel very vulnerable…..
Met with some senior lectureres at the university in the afternoon about an ongoing arts and disabillity project. There is close collaboration between the Social work lectureres PS the Social work inclusion group K and SO a lecturer in SCAFM. The project will create contacts betwwen all three groups to engage the students from both Social wk and Art, film and media. I will be an example of a practicing artsit who happens to be ‘disabled’ and advice on ‘disability arts’. (part of my role here as research fellow. See ‘inside out’ )
http://www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout/index.php?location_id=53&item=7…
We were meeting to plan the coming years projects. Last year my ‘reaction to my dyslexia’ was the subject of one of the visiting students dissertations so spent time with him being interviewed. It revealed personal detail and issues long burried about the abuse i recieved at school. I have transcripts and the recordings so may use this at some point as the basis for a piece. Cris cross as i normally use other peoples words and stories. I dont ‘make‘ autobiopgraphical themed work to feel better, its not therapy, thats the ‘basket weaving mentality theory’. something like this…. ‘Lets put the disabled in the corner and they can weave themselves better!’ I make to have it in the open, not hidden, i dont like ‘suprises’. i can ‘see’ what i am dealing with then.
Worked on application in the evening not listening to Korn
(nb This post has been writen on a computer with no spell check)
