This last week has been a very busy week. Waking up at 7am to start working on university 'stuff' and continuing straight on through to 11pm, when i have no choice but to give up due to my eyes refusing to focus any longer.
Wednesday was the busiest day by far. We went on a walk around Swansea meeting up with the different gallery curators and had meetings with them about methods of application, the proposals they tend to take on, future plans for the space etc etc. As part of the elective im taking, 'marketing and self-promotion'. This lasted most of the morning and went into the afternoon.
During this time, Grace from Lowcs International was having an informal discussion with students about getting them on board for this years event (which i managed to pop into for 30mins). I've given her the dates i am able to volunteer, hopefully i will be asked to help out somewhere.
Then at 12:55 i had an interview with a panel of lovely ladies from the local education and arts commitees. I had put a proposal forward to visit a school as an artist and lead a workshop for 5 days.
Next i had to pop in to Elysium to sort out details for my performance on the 21st March. Which has now been arranged to take place during the usual gallery opening hours, (because of health and safety concerns).
And finally, i set up my installation room and filmed another performative piece, which in its most basic form…… was me dancing my arse off for an hour non-stop. I waited until 5pm ish until i started filming, i didnt want the VERY loud music to interrupt anyone elses practice.
I can promise you that i was very red, very sweaty and had a bad back/neck/legs for a few days. Im sure someone once said that i had to suffer for my Art, hopefully this is enough suffering… otherwise i think it might kill me!
So now the weekends creeping in, i can get on AN online and type up another blog.
Next week i have the nice big installation room again, but this time im getting messy. Along with a trip to Aber and Cardiff during the week.
So if you don't hear from me for a while, it just means university has been demanding… or ive been accidently locked inside an installation room at 7pm.
