Just fixed a date for the January challenge to happen, phew. I had thought it would happen in February but that’s not the case. This doesn’t matter too much but I dont want to get a backlog of challenges to have to quickly fufill in one lump.
Im nervously excited about the January challenge and have begun compiling a list of VIP’s to attend the presentation, there are some Nottingham favorites on the list including Sven! I think I am going to send the list back to the challenger to score me, seeing as he set the score system. I dont have great expectations it has to be said, perhaps I can get some radio DJ’s to come, Svens a long shot!
The invitation letter is a bit of an odd one, it needs to be suitably formal and well presented, not too waffley and not too much detail about contemporary art. Its all about writing for the appropriate audience. I can remember when I was a student organising a small scale show, and a lady complained as she had traveled a long distance to deliver her work with no one there, my tutor had said that I was good at making things seem more important than they were, so perhaps Im good at writing things up, although it doesn’t feel like it in the letter.
I have also started to get February challenges in. One challenge I have received is actually impossible, I reference ‘The Game’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game). Even if I were to accept this challenge I would automatically fail, its not that I am scared of failure its that I dont know if it presents a challenge when I know the out come, on the other hand it is so challenging it is impossible. I think there is an adaptation that could happen here, although what it is I have yet to discover.
I think it is inevitable that people will seek to challenge me to the impossible or to the obvious in related manners as above. Whilst remaining true to the challenges, and selecting the most challenging I remain hesitant about what the year has in store, and how the project will change, maybe its time I got in contact with Danny Wallace.
