So today’s the big day. We may be doing some aesthletics morning exercises, once everyone’s up.
A few who went out on the town last night met one of the Lithuanian artists, mid 20s, very nice, lives in Vilnius, hopes she can stay with us.
We think we get the contracts today. The original idea, thought up by two Miga and Vylnas. They’re pretty prominent in their fields – we’ve not met Vylnas yet but for sure, Miga’s got integrity. He’s planning a project on migration, involving travelling across Europe in RVs, down to Linz (where Emily is). God, I’d love to be involved with that.
But like I mentioned before, the original team are no longer in charge. There was, thanks to (apparently) absurd restrictions put on the original producer by the TV company, a last-minute walk-out and the runner-up producer brought in with his own team. Hence the vague plans, non-appearance of contracts and general all-round uncertainty.
The new guys that we met the other day, I think their portfolio is the usual run-of-the-mill reality tv shows, with an emphasis on FREAK.
Talking of contracts, we’re worried. We all signed up to do an arts/TV project. Dining out on being on a Lithuanian reality TV show for artists at home before the event isn’t the same as being in Lithuania and realising, en famille, that we’re being turned over to a production team that intend to put out a “REALITY TV SHOW” involving weirdo artists.
We’ve talked about it, and we all think that the most important thing about the project for each of us is collaborating with each other and the Lithuanians. In fact, we’d be pretty happy all round if the teams were to rotate so we all got a chance to work with each other.
That’s happened already – Justin and Nat on their radiohead, thinking up ideas together and playing wiffle hurling in the park, some random play and lots and lots of documenting…
We’re all agreed that we have to stick together to keep some control over what we do. The production team are talking about monetary fines, for example, if we don’t do as we’re told. We think they can go jump in the River Neris.
Can we be in control or have we been naive?
