This week ……
Anna Puhakka
This past week I have been working on the appearance of the game. Surprisingly this has led me to start painting again, a part of my practice I had been overlooking for several years. I have also begun constructing the game pieces. With a stroke of luck, I managed to find a hundred colourful plastic balls in a second hand shop for a pound and the process began. At the moment I have to say I am immensely enjoying working. I have asked friends and those in BaseNorth to make up questions for the cards in the game. In short its all starting to come together. Now i just have to make up a name for it.
Nicola Smith
I have been re-considering whether to do a live performance on the night of the private view and for the duration of the exhibition. When I am feeling really confident I think it's a great idea when I am not feeling so good I think it's a bad idea. Developing the wall text mural further I would like to put an image inside of it, I have been photographing the roundabout at Seaburn which used to be a public artwork which has since been grassed over. I like the idea ofre-presenting the image of the roundabout, opening up a space to re-consider failed public artworks. We learn from our mistakes and should not feel ashamed at presenting them for future reference and re-interpretation. I want my work to have a reflective and critical perspective in response to public art in the Sunderland area. Now wherethe hell am I going to get a running machine from?
Sarah Stamp
Trying to work out how to put the speaking I am going to record on a loop so it comes on intermittingly. This may sound very basic but I haven't really worked with sound much, so I don't know what I'm doing. I have always wanted to work with sound of speaking but feeling like I don't know much has probably put me off. However I am keen not to just work in certain ways because they are easy and familiure to me, I think it is very important to do this if just to explore other ways of working. I have also been collecting more words and phrases to use this is very similar to the way I have previously collected objects to use. Some of my favourite ones are "the happiness industry", "the ministry of truth" and "human populations will be naturally checked by misery"
I have also been searching for elocution tips to make my voice have less of an accent when recording I have learned elocution lessons are expensive so may try copying radio 4 presenters.
