Emergency bed-in tour
I have had the predictable dip, mentally pulling the work apart but no time for procrastination as I need to focus on new work for upcoming events. I was pleased to be asked to put in a proposal for the ‘Bed-in’ project happening at the Bluecoat in Liverpool if you would like to make a proposal follow this link:
www.thebluecoat.org.uk/content/view/276/15/
The project pays homage to John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s week-long bed-in protest. I am particularly interested in people helping me with stuff, as this is what makes me feel most at ‘peace’. As a visual artist I work mostly in isolation and often find it hard to ask for help and can procrastinate over this particular action, which makes the act of asking even worst. For this project I propose to have a list of things I need help with and my aim is to achieve as many as possible in the time frame. I will ask the audience to:
Help me document this
Help me write a blog
Help me use my camera
Help me decide what to have for tea
Help me get lunch
Help me get a drink
Help me with my anxiety
Help me I’m bored
Help me make money
Help me have a ciggy
Help me go to toilette
Help me with my career
*I must stay in bed or be carried to a destination using part of the bed
This Friday Emergency kicks off at the Greenroom in Manchester and I am trying to construct a triangular net for my emergency balloon drop (http://emergencymcr.posterous.com/). I have spent £50 on football netting which I hope will be delivered today and I intend to fold it in half to create a triangular shape. Money is a bit tight at the moment so I hope I wont need more than 150 balloons it’s amazing how expensive good quality balloons are. If you would like to participate in my emergency balloon drop then please come along this Friday to the Greenroom, 54/56 Whitworth Street no later than 5.15pm, the event is free.
On Wednesday night I went to the opening of ‘Association’ exhibition at Castlefield gallery. The artists collective had situated themselves in the gallery space and sent out open invitations to artists to collaborate with them. The exhibition is a developing visual archive of this process. Phil Davenport whom I will be working with had participated in this and it was great to see him at the show. For me it was nice to see more of his work and talk about how we could use it in our tour at the Chinese Arts Centre. He was showing A1 black and white spreadsheets that had written descriptions of extinct birds in contrast to headline set text that flowed between statement and nonsense. We spoke about enlarging the prints so people could actually walk on them making them more interactive and that the text could be used as part of the tour script. We both agreed how difficult it is to communicate our individual experience of China to other people but how we could also play with this on our tour.
