“Dungbeetle and Sisyphus”

After the re-shuffling of the cards every particle assumes it's new place, in new order..

Let's see where it will all take me.

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so much work in the last weeks!!!

We went to Germany for 9 days to make and film "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus II" in the countryside. Before and after I worked like a mad person on the installation components for "Through the Forest with Virgil" which opened as part of the group exhibition "Meet me at Sunset" in Nicole Bartos's unusual gallery on 36 Ullet Road.

I feel like I may have travelled a little too much and am not surprised that I have now been struck down with killer cold. But I am disappointed not to be able to go out there and make the most of all the hard work, by doing some necessary schmoozing..

Well, no schmoozing for me, but perhaps lots of tea and some vitamins..

I am a bit concerned, I don't want to miss making the most of these projects.

I am finding being in London quite distracting, it is easier up here to be focused than it is down there. At least that is the observation so far. So being back for weekends is for now a good thing,

I am missing being in the studio in teh Royal Standard, that is a good space to think in, too.

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show some love to the an layout… pictures haven't changed on the main page for 2 weeks..

I am infused with chemical free wine, pleasure without the pain of the day after. How nice. I forgot the enjoyment that can be had free of consequence.

The camera man / also known as saving camera angel has arrived.

The dungball is finished, just waiting for it to dry now.

The project preparations so far have been quite intensive in that the leaps between countries and life realities and identities has been a bit of an issue. But apart from that this little residency has turned into a working holiday. Which my body really needed.

Tomorrow we are going on location hunt (another one) and I hope we will also eat german chocolate.

points:

Hey team !!

Show some love to the an layout… pictures haven't changed on the main page for 2 weeks..

I am infused with chemical free wine, pleasure without the pain of the day after. How nice. I forgot the enjoyment that can be had free of consequence.

The camera man / also known as saving camera angel has arrived.

The dungball is finished, just waiting for it to dry now.

The project preparations so far have been quite intensive in that the leaps between countries and life realities and identities has been a bit of an issue. But apart from that this little residency has turned into a working holiday. Which my body really needed.

Tomorrow we are going on location hunt (another one) and I hope we will also eat german chocolate.

Now in Germany:

small production residency in a small town in the countryside not too far from Mainz.. Made a second hay ball, filming next saturday..

Why on earth I am writing about this in telegram style when telegrams no longer exist I really can't tell you. Some time restrictions, an earlier overdose on caffein and general load of admin still to do all play their part.

I am in Mainz today making use of the internet connection at a bronze and aluminum foundry that I have some contact with (all in the readyiness for a future commission that will of course one day come and require me to cast a beautiful large something or other..)..

This afternoon I am schmoozing a gallery owner who I hope, hope, yes hope very much, will love my work and will invite me to show it..

To some distress I found out about an artist already represented by a gallery in Mainz who works with the same symbolic items as I do.

Well: Great minds…

I have just googled him, just now, it's not so bad. His ideas aren't any better than mine. Phew… A sigh of relief.

The calm here with which the project moves forward may be deceptive and I am tempted to forget the next projects for a while but I really have to stay on the ball with my communication and project developments of "New Media Gallery for Birds", the public intervention that I am planning with a Rapunzel reference, the sculptures that I want to have made and cast before december, the cards that I want to print for promotion and sale, the search for a gallery and for keys to door that I'd like to pop open asap….. etc etc..

But first I have a dungball to finish before my camera man arrives on thursday. We are filming on saturday and sunday.

And I have a lot of possible locations to consider, look through the photographs that I took yesterday and think through how the locations and scenes could be used, how cameras could be stationed to get 2 footages out of one distance covered ..

I am thinking out live onto the blog, perhaps I will also learn to edit by wrambles one of these days and delight you with precision, sense and purpose.

check my myspace and axisweb for other updates.

www.myspace.com/birgitdeubner

www.axisweb.org/artist/birgitdeubner

PLEASE GO AND SEE MY FILM BEFORE THE EXHIBITION CLOSES ON THE 9th of OCTOBER.

6 Jordan Street

11am – 4pm,, tuesday to sunday.

this is really near to NOVAS and the A-Foundation which are on Greenland Street. Both streets are off Jamaica Street and a short walk from China Town / Liverpool.

And give me some feedback!!!