future focus

had to add another post after being into the gallery and receiving an email.

i’ve had a reply from the vice chancellor : “I will enquire what went wrong with the seminar – professional practice is a crucial part of understanding the creative career.” was part of his reply.

in the gallery i was exploring how to best document my work. my work has made it onto the work sheet for gallery activity, i feel quite proud. the gallery assistant informed me that they were bribing the cine kids audience with chocolate to visit the gallery after the film.

i was packing up when the throngs arrived. interestingly there were quite a few children who walked over my work without intervention from their accompanying adults.

the best part was watching a lady straighten a part of the floor that was rearranged as a result of the interventions. possible futures in action in front of me. i feel inspired to visit the gallery more often to watch these interventions and reactions.

i’m back from being outside of my pracice this week. all i have to show for the excersion is some nice pictures of a digger.

now with coffee drunk and sun emerging from rain clouds i can look back at a week of very mixed feelings.

i editted the crib sheet and gave it to the landlady. the first thing she asked me when i walked is was ‘where’s my crib sheet?’ some interesting conversations happened from there on in.

last night i visited the second year derby fine art exhibition, which was nice. walking past the adt building i got very down. it related to the seminar disappointment. i’ve dealt with the disappointment this morning by sending an email to the vice chancellor of the university, telling him about it.

research for new works continue and after crawling out of the black hole with yellow centre, i’m starting to feel optimisitic again.

i’ve written a crib sheet for the landlady of my local pub about the exhibition and my work. i don’t know what her interest is in visual art, so the opportunity to write a crib sheet has been fun. it’s allowed me to think about my work, having missed doing that for the last week or so.

i got a little concerned when i realised that the writing of the sheet, effectivley the script for my artist’s talk, might compromise the ambiguity of viewing the work. however, if by reading the sheet, she decides to go to an exhibition that previously she would not have, then i feel that is a good thing(words failing me at this point).

in other news how can i critically and positively write about my disappointment connected to the news that the professional development seminar, supposidly happening this week is not happening this week “as the university didn’t get back to us to arrange it” it’s ok as the programme does not make a big thing on the poster about it. however ‘Future Focus also provides professional development for the Bursary winners.’ is written on the website. i feel let down.

still, it’s all amazing i have a piece of work in a gallery with an international reputation, i know this as i’ve been told by the gallery that that’s what they have. how amazing is that for my cv? time will tell. it’s partly due to me continuing to make work that is deemed fit for an audience to view. i have to get possible future work past the feature editor so to speak.

it is clear that art audiences are more important than artists, as people whose job it is to be responsible to audience will think of audience before artist. ergo as long as an artist’s practice produces work deemed to be what the audience wants to see, it will be succesful. to ease the situation comes mediation. through mediation, all parties can get what they want. phew, i don’t have to worry after all.

a week is a long time when considered as seconds. the exhibition has been open for a week now, many seconds for my thoughts. many seconds to reflect.

i have done more than just think about this exhibition, and that has been a great feeling.

so on a quiet Sunday night after my first sober relaxing weekend of the year, i feel compelled to spend some more seconds recording my thoughts in this moment. i’ll spare you the mundanities of sandwiches and green tea.

i enjoyed the opening night a lot more than i thought i would. i enjoyed interacting with the local entertainment editor and kept my thoughts to myself when it became apparent that his ‘artist talking about their work interview’ was to be recorded on a mobile phone. i know that afternoon at the national photography symposium there had been a talk about how things are different now in terms of gathering of info for publication in the press. this guy however was taking the piss. i’ve seen the other artist’s interview on you tube; the sound quality is so disappointing. i look forward to posting the link to my piece, if it makes it via Bluetooth to the web editor’s pc and on to the distributed media.

my work investigates the notion of possible futures. something i’d seen gormley say about his 4^th plinth project. in researching my piece, i knew some of the materials i was using could be influenced by heat. the heat in the gallery concerned me, and upon considering my concerns realised that within the notion of possible futures, there are conditions out of my control that affect my present, i.e. the work in the gallery would continue to explore the notion of possible futures. little did i expect a small person to respond to the work on the preview night by attempting to sit on part of the work. my investigation of possible futures had indeed manifested itself in my present actually in front of me. i was so pleased, and so relaxed and excited that it had happened. a very worried curator rushed over…i calmly said “leave it, it’s a possible future.”

upon a visit in the week, the storey of how my work was intervened with had become a storey of the man from the arts council kicking my work, and the invigilator in question, told me that as a fact. i laughed. the same invigilator told me that the work had been repaired, as it had to be that way, it was better for the aesthetics. seems a possible futures for the work in the gallery is to be compelled to be compliant because that’s the way that it has to be because the gallery needs it to be so. what ever happened to someone talking to me, the person responsible for making the work to ask me what i want? i didn’t expect a possible futures for the piece like this, however i am finding it fascinating that it is occurring.

more on that storey as it occurs. please feel free to ask for more details. i have a mobile phone equipped reporter dispatched to record the developments.

in other news…

stories of a sacking turn out to be incorrect. the long serving worker was deemed to be working for a department that was no longer required as a department, so the department was reformed. the said long serving worker was then working for a newly made department that subsequently was deemed unnecessary and so the newly appointed worker in the new department that didn’t exist any more was redundant, as there was no new department any more.

and finally the weather.

the fine weather will turn cloudy with possible storms on the horizon.

opening night.

the result of my conversation is on show, what of the conversations it has with it’s viewer’s ?

i have to be patient.

what of the videoed interview?

i’ll wait and see if they approach me.

it’s been a long journey and from which i am tired.