Work has been happening on the plinths for We’ve been Re-Distributed, I have 3 plinths made up and am just making decisions on where to position the integrated speakers… I’m also thinking about the last plinth…
I think it’s going to be significantly taller than the other three as it’s being used to show a magazine as opposed to holding the projectors and VHS players – however – I’m quite fond of symmetry so it might yet be the same size as the others!
I took the 5th of November as an opportunity to get some footage of fire for the piece of work I proposed for B-Side Multi-Media Festival in Weymouth… I’m just playing about with it at the moment and will almost certainly upload some of it next time I post!
I have been sending more applications and proposals out as well – some of which I’m really excited about! And have been talking to Rupert Pane about showing some sound works we made together… there’s a lot of talk that needs to happen around this before too much happens though! I might upload some of this next time I post as well actually!
Some things have been happening.
I have a solo show opening @ ARTicle Gallery in Birmingham opening 30/11/2011 and running until 16/12/2011. I’m going to be showing We’ve been Re-Distributed. I will also be giving a talk around my practice generally as well as discussing the work in the show in the gallery on 6/12/2011for one hour from 12:00. The work itself is basically made… the prints still need printing but the files are ready, the email is written and ready to send, the videos just need copying onto VHS but again are ready and the photograph is being re-shot this afternoon! I have decided to construct a series of plinths with integrated speakers to hold the VHS players and projectors so there are still things to be done but I think these plinths are important to make the show seem more professional than having speakers, projectors, VHS players and shed loads of cables on show and I think this professionalism is particularly important when the gallery is housed in the university I have just graduated from!
Today I have been catching up with loads of communication I haven’t had chance to do during the course of The Event 2011… So I have spoken to Winston Thornton-Clark and emailed The Lombard Method about the residencies which are coming up there… I have been developing ideas for the residency and am thinking about digitizing the physical space and structure of The Lombard Method. This might or might not include making Google Sketch-up models, webcam videos, site specific projection screens, more integrated speakers, field recordings, interviews and representation of existing digital objects (http://www.thelombardmethod.org/ , http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002597198440 , http://twitter.com/#!/LombardMethod )etc…
I’ve also been speaking via email to Soph at TROVE about a group show she’s organising that I’m showing Marking the Internet and the Physical 2.0 in. I have very little time available this year! With this in mind I have started sending more proposals out for things next year… first up was proposing Digital Plinth (the slightly better name for what was 4thDPlinth) for BLOP2012 at Arnolfini.
Still not heard from Southam’s Cardall Collection – but it is a while until their next committee meeting so I may have to wait until then!
work in progress on We’ve been Re-Distributed.
