As I mentioned, A Curriculum started on Monday and it’s been a good week so far. The space we have is ridiculously big (and chilly). I am feeling a bit out of it in some ways.. being local and also the OLDEST!! But there’s no escaping the fact that my experience will be different to the others’. I hope it is too – I want this residency to be a very productive period and also to feed into my studio practice afterwards. I have to find a better balance of making work and taking on other projects!
We all gave presentations about our work yesterday and it was great to see what everyone is up to. Normally I’m not too bothered about speaking in small groups like that, but something was up yesterday! I suppose it always makes you feel a bit vulnerable speaking about your work – I always forget half the stuff I want to say too. When there are no questions either – that seems worse than too many somehow! Anyway, enough reflecting on that – we all find the speaking stuff hard I’m sure..
During A Curriculum I am also making a (cardboard) set for a new comedy/performance production at the Bluecoat in April.It will be a slightly surreal affair and I am planning a lot of pipes that become other objects, a cat/telephone mix was also mentioned last night at out meeting…
I will also be working on a collaboration with Nathan Jones, poet in residence over the last year at the Bluecoat. We will be creating an artists books with one or more of his poems. He has written an especially beautiful one entitled ‘Slow Magic’ about the experience oif gallery spaces and we will concentrate on that.
Right, to my little red van and A Foundation. Ta ra.
