Just back from the studio and my fingers are stiff with cold. It is freezing out there. I had the dog with me and walking him home was enough to get really cold. He is getting used to the studio though he prefers being at home.
Watched Fischli and Weiss’ The way things go at Cratespace in Margate yesterday evening. The projection was done outdoors, which was interesting though alot of the detail was lost so not so good for a first encounter with this seminal work. Words which went through my head in response: absurdity, ridiculousness of things going round and round again … “go” as in work, function, experiment, move, disappear, collapse, break down, fail …
I nearly didn’t go to Margate as I’ve had a really tiring few days, squeezing work in between trips to the hospital with my dad. Turned out he did not have DVT so that was a relief though no one knows what is wrong with his leg. The doctors are throwing antibiotics at it and treating it as cellulitis. Life also “goes.”
Recent activity includes going to Eat with Art organised by Latitudinal Cuisine at the Mile End Art Pavilion and seeing the work selected for the Tower Hamlets Open. We were asked to take a dish from our own place or country – whether that’s Tower Hamlets or Taipei – preferably personally cooked and enough to feed 4 people. The result was a marvellously cosmopolitan feed – both in terms of the dishes produced and the fact that the artists/people producing them were themselves not identified with only one place or country or culture so what it meant to cook a dish from your own country was wide open.
I was shortlisted for the show so it was good to see what had been selected and how the space was curated. It is a really difficult space and what worked best for me in there, on the day, was Tom Estes Night Cleaning performance which made great use of the floor space and was nicely integrated into the whole eat with art event. I did like Mary Yacoob’s drawing too. http://www.alisn.org/
Had a lovely time at the opening of Inclusions yesterday at The Stone Space. I was a bit surprised to see the drawing they hung wasn’t the one chosen from my submission but that’s because i had two drawings in the folder and the committee got confused. Everyone there was really friendly. I think my work was hung a bit too high but the magnets I got sent from Australia worked really really well and I think I have now got the solution for hanging my work.
The Stone Space is a lovely space right next to Leytonstone Library. Exhibition opens this Thursday and ends on 15 April.
Went to a lovely opening at Space gallery http://spaceseven.co.uk/ in Folkestone yesterday. The current show is of work by Nicholette Goff – prints or rather traces of plants, many of them under threat of extinction. There was so much to look at – here was the artist as naturalist, scientist, archivist, observer, maker; as harbinger …
Spent this morning knitting and taking photos http://www.dadonline.eu/node/376. I am starting to build a look and feel for these project photos which I rather like.
And finally, something I’m very chuffed about – I’m off to Leytonstone tomorrow to deliver a piece of work to The Stone Space http://thestonespace.wordpress.com/ for an exhibition I have been selected to take part in called Inclusions. And as I have family in the area, what was going to be popping round for tea has turned into joining in my Uncle’s birthday lunch celebration.
