Usually, my main daily concerns are: Have the dogs been walked? Do I have something clean to wear for work? If I achieve them, I feel that I have had a good day.
This is because I don’t physically have the time for other concerns… until I take the time off work because of this annoying raging chest infection I now have that is. That’s when I start to read stuff…
I had seen this article on a-n when it first appeared: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/liverpool-biennial-director-i-want-to-make-it-part-of-peoples-everyday-lives But dismissed it, after reading ‘It’s not often that you’ll hear of a festival director visiting every local artist, studio, venue and collective in order to get to know a place better. Yet that’s exactly what Sally Tallant did back in December 2011’ What utter tosh!
I didn’t think anymore of it until it appeared again on facebook yesterday. I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, but could feel my blood boiling again. Though the rest of the article may have been interesting, I couldn’t get past that statement. Who did she visit? I wasn’t. My groups SCI and Soup Collective weren’t contacted. Gallery/ studio groups Arena and Bridewell weren’t visited…. were there more?
I queried the statement on facebook and Carol Ramsay followed it up directly asking the article writer for clarification (on the writer’s ‘Double Negative’ page) . Interestingly, two posts (that we know of) by Carol and another artist did not appear on the site. Were they deleted or just not published?
Carol posted the article on her own facebook page asking for feedback, I posted it on the SCI facebook page. No response at all…. (In public that is – a spew of behind the scenes correspondence occurred) Are artists afraid to say something in case they are ‘blacklisted’?
We tweeted Sally Tallant directly. Although not responding to the article, she promised to visit. I followed this up with an email .
I know she is really busy and I accept that she may not have even read the post herself, but articles like this are just not acceptable.
