I didn’t really take a month’s break from writing the ACE funding application, but I don’t think it was far off it. What an absolutely horrendous application! Anyway it’s well and truly off now and no doubt starting its journey to the huge bin of rejects.
We’ve very much worked backwards on the budget with this one…working on what is the very minimum amount needed to make the trip feasible. How few artists actually attending can we get away with? How much work can be fitted into suitcases and carried rather than shipped?
Bruce, from Basement Arts projects, thinks he has already found a private sponsor that will pay for our air fare. Fingers crossed for that one. If we can get a few more to sponsor us, we can use any additional funding that we may actually get, to take more of the artists with us.
The majority of this last month has been spent sorting through work that we want to take to Stockholm. It’s been a really hard slog. Some of the work was amazing, but it didn’t fit the brief, was too similar to others, or would have been impossible to carry…etc etc….but we’ve finally narrowed it down to down to 20 artists.
I’ve started loading images on the website and hopefully by next week, all of the artists will be up there : http://sci.moonfruit.com/#/stockholm/4558390430
