Toady had to be the day to start this blog and really begin work on the project. Although at this stage there is still a lot of planning to do. The project however has a definite start and end so here it is.
Challenge 2010 is a project which will see people set me challenges through out the year, one a month. At the end of each month I will select a challenge out of the one’s people have sent me to be carried out, there is no limit to what the challenges could be as long as they fall with in an artistic discipline, which leaves it quite open to interpretation. In other words I am not fixed by a title of curator / artist / critic etc, or any one medium and it is individual imagination that will make the challenges interesting and diverse. I could of course have set my self challenges each month but they would be subjective and limited to my own thought processes.
The reason for starting the project is simple, I believe in challenge and fear that with out challenge practice and indeed life can become stale, challenges help us explore, take risks and fail, but with out challenge we can not excel our potential.
The project has been in development for some time but until today I have not allowed any work to happen in relation to it, in keeping with the time restraints of the project. So presumably January will be the hardest month as I configure the project structure and the methods people will use to interact with the project as well as getting submissions for the January challenge. There are still unanswered questions about the project but they will be answered in time, or else drift and become irrelevant.
I aim for this blog to be an honest documentation of the processes the project undertakes and the situations that come from it. 2010 is by no means an empty year, but there is nothing foreseeable which would cause the the project to not be carried out accordingly. So I set out in search of a true challenge…..
