we’re being vey brave right now. we’re working with belper town council to mount an art trail pivoted upon the belper food festival. we’re doing it funded by drive, determination and a collaborative spirit. our aim is to have 10 shops with 10 artists. my evolved thinking places me at a point where the trail will happen, and i know how to achieve it.
it’s a pilot scheme, so we’re not attempting to solve all of the social and economic problems of the western world, just simply to mount a two week exhibition of works made by members of the artistic community of in and around belper.
i’m looking after the webpage page and the legacy site for the project and utilising networks to publicise and promote the endeavour.
what place for competitiveness?
this could have been my blog entry subject as i’ve enjoyed reading rob’s entry with the cycling video attached and it has resonated with my own recent realisation of ‘the sports context’ within what i do.
however this is going to be about another phase of development of the website and associated thinking about corridor arts dot org dot uk. there is a project on the distant horizon i have been giving how to present the project online. research within my own practice has drawn me to some new possibilities.
today i have been able to introduce a visual theme that supports touch-based mobile webkit devices. this means the nokia n8 still displays it in the standard theme. while i was at that i’ve added a more efficient method of displaying event information and as a consequence works within the mobile theme too. i have some other development things to investigate too.
corridor for me is a fun interesting creative project. as i wait for the result of my grants for the arts application, i reflect that as the corridor project is essentially about collaboration, all those fun creative things i currently do collaboratively have a place within the corridor website. oh and something else i will be adding soon, seo of images.
corridor is my fun evening and weekend project. i know that when i’m having fun that i produce fun things. when we began the corridor project there was a seriousness about what we were doing, which was good, however we were not able to set a ceiling on that seriousness. at times it got slightly out of hand. it got slightly in the way of just going out and making interventions in the woods, taking photographs of trees on walks and playing with paint and drawing.
i now have a handlable seriousness within my personal practice, leaving me to have fun with my creativity and those others around me.
the feelings are good.
the optimism is rising.
it gives me pleasure to add another post here. since august the group has been constituted, opened a bank account and is in talks with a local council about staging an event next year.
today we’ve met to discuss our project plans and evolve a project timeline while exploring the curatorial possibilities. i personally believe that if there is a will there is a way.
i like how this project is happening in real time and is evolving out of a want to do and a want to do that is enjoyable, rewarding and fun.
we’re developing our own strategies, aims and experimental opportunities with the project, all with the broader greater good in mind.
the tortoise is back in fashion !
i’m so pleased when i get one of those moments in which i ask a question and the questionee has had exactly the same question in mind.
our common thought has been about our bank account.
one quick phone call and i’ve had it confirmed that the account is open.
one small step and all that !
good work today.
can’t talk right now, curry and beer.
more soon.xxxx
