The signing’s done and I got offside to the Museum for some quiet and some shade. The trip was worth it, if only for The Vilnius Market Square Pole of Shame.
Tomorrow’s the Press Conference. We’ve chosen a spot by the river. It’ll be, as Tom says, very fin-de-siecle. I spent some time there, reading, this afternoon until we got rained off. I’ve just started reading Moral Clarity, by Susan Neiman and I think it’ll take me a long time.
I’ve been charged with the task of introducing the away team – so I’m writing this as a dress rehearsal.
Eero is a performance artist. He makes art that brings people together using art, science and technology. He’s an American and right now, he works and teaches in Tallin, Estonia.
Ania Shastakova is a recent graduate who works primarily with photography and video. She also likes to splice existing YouTube content to make new work.
Pavel Forman is a painter. He’s German but he currently lives in the Czech Republic. He’s a big strong guy and he make big, strong paintings. Man paintings.
Andreia Filipe is a final year student. She makes big work, often on walls of buildings. She also likes to use Chinese plastic toys and bright colours in her work.She’s from Faro in Portugal.
Tom Russotti runs the Aesthletics Institute, which merges sports and art by creating new sports – which pretty much everyone can play – even me. We had the inaugural Vilnius Wiffle Hurling match last week and we’ve worked with Tom to invent a number of new games while we’ve been here. He live in Brooklyn, New York.
I’m Fiona Flynn and I’m a first year student. I try to make art that expresses an optimistic outlook and I use all sorts of media to do that. I’m also a teacher, a journalist, a mother of twin boys and I live in London.
Justin Tyler Tate makes kinetic and interactive objects and installations. He’s a technical genius and if we were a band of jewelry thieves, he’d be the one hacking into the safe. Sometimes he does little performances on the quiet, too. He’s a Floridan who lives currently in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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The sad news is that Nat’s bailing out and going home. He was pretty uncomfortable with it from the start, I think, and I suppose the cons ended up outweighing the pros for him. He was really concerned that the project had lost the critical aspect that had been sold to us. Last night’s performance from the director and TV company boss can’t have helped, as he said he’d decided to stay. What a shame. I think the rest of us are just going to have a good time, do some stuff together and see what happens.
Shame. Not least since I was hoping to read at least some of his book: The Blurring of Art and Life, by Allan Kaprow.
Ah well.
