hello
It’s incubator day today and I have remembered my key.
THE STOLEN PAINTING!
A painting has been stolen from the galleries here at Exeter Phoenix this week and I am wondering who pinched it. I think somebody saw it, loved it and came back with a screwdriver and took it home to put above their mantelpiece.
Intrigued about stolen paintings and Joe Orton defacing library books.
it wasn’t me what done it.
Drove in today – it was truly raining. Drove at around 57mph all the way.
Observed three umbrellas:
Brolly 1) An overly large yellow umbrella nestled with patrick trainers.
Brolly 2) Moreover a parasol with a pointy bit.
Brolly 3) A carousel of complimentary colours (mostly greens).
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A Memory is Made:
Ben’s red plastic ‘Queen Mother’ umbrella on Tuesday and a lovely conversation about it.
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It seems that incubator day entries in this blog start with three things. LIke the train triptych last week. Then a memory is made. Then something else happens. But things have a habit of connecting.
On My Radio
The radio station seem to be having a two tone thing today (which is my school disco).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKtQO3IPrk
A Lady With a Very Soft Voice
Paul Rooney is being interviewed by a lady with a very soft voice after the two tone bit. He has an exhibition opening at Spacex tomorrow. I can’t see Paul Rooney but I can hear Paul Rooney. I listen to the interview like a nosey neighbour in my room – (or, to put it another way, like Basil Fawlty checking for woodworm) and at the moment Paul is talking about how you survive financially as an artist and links this to his previous teaching practice, The Northern Art Prize and a spare room at home serving as a studio.
I remember that the framing of this blog was exploring ‘making’ again after PGCE. I think I’m going through a process of asking myself what I am doing, why I keep doing things and how teaching shifts context of making/faciliating to something that I don’t know yet but want to explore/experiment with/write about. A new kind of energy/function/context.
Connects also to a conversation today with Catherine Cartwright about developing the artist/educator role, how practice relates to facilitating learning, criticality in workshopping, Artists’ Access to Art Colleges, the South West region, her explorations of printmaking/the digital and how the internet enables connection/sharing/learning.
Catherine’s blog: www.a-n.co.uk/p/544293
Thinking of funding…..earlier in the week I found myself writing about being at the photocopier at work copying pages from the book The Dream of Fluxus – a chapter called ‘Art from Letters and Paper’ where George Maciunas ‘developed a thrift ideology for Fluxus’ while holding down a day job (in the US Air Force? LOL!)
Links to idea of adapting/appropriating/recycling as an aesthetic….
‘In aesthetic terms, Maciunas’ vision was founded on his virtuostic handling of texts…in conjunction with recycled paper and pictorial motifs from which he made decorative products’
n.b. concerning ‘decorative’ – see Art Forum article ‘ornamental and the shallow’ term – oh drat I can’t find the link – will update later.
Reminds me of Lily Van der Stokker’s ‘unshouting feminism’ and nice use of the words ‘nice, sentimental and decorative’. Nice show this summer at St Ives.
http://www.airdeparis.com/lily.htm
These little nuggets of stuff helps me make sense of all those old books/pages/texts I have been making under the influence of and why I might want to continue to do that with a sense of thrift. The idea of the Scrapbook is useful here – ‘scraps’ – more on this soon.
With less than 50 words to go – I will tell you that I will post some pictures of a small fragment of ‘making’ from today and in a mo I will post the ‘making’ strategy.
Menu decorative thingy:
trying to find squiggley-line
sorry no video today
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