Ah, show is up, I have a title.. it’s not the most amazing thing I have ever done, but that disappointment is partly due to the fact that I can’t show the animation alongside the sculpture.. otherwise it will do. This exhibition could have really done with a curator.. as it is, it looks like two solo shows with the rest of us squeezed between.. no actually, Rait is in a little room on his own and that works well. But a big-ish rectangular hall is always problematic, especially when you have six artists with a big film on one end wall with incredible sound, and two other sounds pieces, as well as two films with sound in an ante room. I might wear ear plugs tonight.
Jens and I have silent work. Cardboard and paper (photographs). I would have liked light, but I couldn’t get slides done in time for the projection idea. Not sure I could afford them either. I saw an exhibition in Salzburg which had medium format slides, oh how I envied those… the projector looked extremely expensive however.
Anyway, it is difficult when everyone wants their work shown to its best, but this show hardly ended up being diplomatic – it was pretty much first come first served in the end. Holger did say that the next exhibitions would concentrate on two or three artists who were at the end of their residencies, which seems to make more sense and will be infinitely more manageable.
Perhaps I am too quick to compromise, I don’t know. But I find it bizarre when artists are all in this situation together and still won’t compromise. I see both sides I suppose, but I find confrontation difficult and as the space is not ideal for anyone, compromise seems inevitable. Should I be a bit harder I wonder?
Apologies for going so awol… very good long weekend in Liverpool/Kingsley having a 1950s themed birthday party. No time to finish off all those little jobs while I was home after all.. so am feeling unprepared and a bit muddled about what I need to do next. Mum was here for a few days this week so we saw a lot, explored, ate, drank and were utterly geeked up at Ars Electronica digital art festival here this weekend. Some fantastic stuff, will upload pics when I find the phone cable…if I didn’t leave it in Liverpool… oh dear.
Also the migrating academies project is here from Vilnius (among other places) so I will go along tonight and see if anyone there knows Fiona Flynn (fellow a-n blogger who was filming an art/reality show, Artothlon, there this summer).
Exhibition opens here on Tuesday evening so that had better be first on my list I suppose!! Work is sort of done, but I haven’t decided how to show it or where it should go. The space is still awkward and I am considering putting it in the lift. Maybe I should be in it? Maybe I should walk around during the opening, bump into people and spill their drinks and break other people’s work. Perhaps not. Besides I had more ideas and starting making another piece today, as usual.
Mehmet from Turkey is here, going through similar troubles extracting money or information, I empathise but cannot lend anything this time.. Money from YSP (To be paid Sep 1st in contract) has not appeared – it is to be a cheque in the post so I am being very wary of spending what I have.. it might need to last me a long time. I realise now that I am always in this situation and it is tiresome! It also makes me a bore so I shall stop on that subject, sorry.
So anyway.. hanging the show over the next day or two and then some proper thoughts.
