Any way you look at it, having a cameraman and sound man catching your every move is horrible. Especially when we’re sitting around trying to say hello to Anna, who’s just off a really terrible flight from Moscow.
They did the intro footage today – in different locations (mine was on the Fluxus Bridge) with us, in first person, talking to camera about ourselves.
What is your art like, what do you want to get out of the project, what kind of human are you – were just some of the questions we were prompted with. Yoiks.
It finished with a shot of us all holding hands around some big metal pipe structure, as the camera panned around us. It doen’t get much cheesier than that.
How we play Monday’s press conference is up to us, but the team were happy for us to do one of Tom’s games – maybe inviting the press to join in. Justin’s pushing for a pool party and I must be seen as the journalist of the piece, since I’ve been designated with the job of introducing all the non-Lithuanian artists to the assembled reporters and photographers. I’ll draft something in the next day or two.
Who, by the way, we still haven’t met. It’s the question we ask more than any other and we never get a straight answer.
Nate continued to wear the radiohead today, as it’s developing into a critique of media and control.
We’ve gotten into trouble with the supervisor at the dorm for dismantling the radio – even though it hadn’t been working. Paulius had to deal with the flack so Justin whizzed it all back into place – AND got it to work.We might be a bunch of twit artists, but we’re good people.
If we were a jewellry heist team, he’d be the one hunched over a combination lock and devising the explosives.
I want him on my team – trouble is, so does everyone else. We might have to hire him out by the hour…
