The project I am working on is expanding. I have invited friends and aquaintances from facebook and beyond to whistle a tune thus:
‘Hayley Lock is inviting everyone she knows to whistle a tune for a project I am doing.The idea is that if you were a whistling shepherd, then what tune would you whistle? Please leave a tune with your name attached (or anonymous) on (0044) 1379 678084 if you are outside the UK and 01379 678084 if you are within the UK’.
The idea of this project is to feed into the sound works that I have proposed for a residency at g39 in Cardiff in September. The recordings will then be worked on in some way, so that the work may not be identified as whistling at the end. I hope more people will join in.
These soundworks will also inform new work within the evergrowing ‘Imperial Leather’ series. I will add to these when in Cardiff, but I aim to have a suitcase of goodies before I go.
My practice appears to be ever changing depending on where and what I am surrounded by. I am looking at expanding my practice in different ways in order for me to be challenged and I am fortunate to be able to do this financially through my lecturing post. However this does mean that I need to work very hard to fit all of my ideas into the day to day.
The pressures to ‘succeed’ are for me, personal. Recently on the retreat ‘Neither Here Nor There’, at Wysing Arts Centre I brought this question up through a discussion a group of us were having at the time. We decided that this was an ever evolving query of personal development, measurable only by self, maybe measured by the audience on a different level (although displaying work through an audience in some way was seen as important). I have to say that I find exposing my practice to an audience highly excruciating, yet one of those challenges I appear to partly work towards in an oddly masochistic way.
My mind is full of ideas at the moment. Regarding the near future I just need to find the clarity of thought to put them onto paper for a proposal that I have been asked to do for work leading up to 2011. This will involve the idea of travel and storytelling.
I am also putting ideas forward to working with a photographer and film maker and hopefully a writer. All exciting and demanding stuff.
