It seems that I will be crazy busy until the end of next year. 2-3 installations in India in August. One project that I want to try and bring back for the Liverpool Biennale. Another project that seems to crystallize with these exquisite musicians. Then I also need to return to my drawing practice because it is becoming exceptionally rusty. And I don't know. Ah, yes. A show in a ruin, a bombed out church in Liverpool. This should happen in september. (3 small wooden huts with work inside… it's an open air venue, secured by the church walls, but there is no roof..)
And and and and and and and…
I am calculating wether I need to try and get a place at the Royal College of Art or possibly Goldsmiths (postgraduate courses)in order to save myself a few years worth of struggle.. And also to safeguard myself for my future. An RCA / RA next to one's name appears to be a good insurance against carreer lows… well..
But it's all just thinking, thinking and planning… In the meantime I am so busy and enjoy it a lot.
The 52nd Venice Biennale panicked me slightly. So many artists.. So much competition. So many whose work is just more polished. But then also a fair few whose work is pretty flat and obvious.. But still the rat race part of it all made me a bit uncomfortable.. And the concern over what the value of my work can possibly be… I saw too many pieces that were akin to my own, by content or choice of symbolism. But then perhaps it is ok to be part of a Zeitgeist… hmmmm… Still it makes me squirm. Until I saw all these related pieces, I thought that I was deeply unfashionable.. Which I am obviously not.
For the most part I just want to remain in a position in which I can simply make my work, have an audience and find myself in some publications.
art art bloddy art.
I best get back to some work and look into the Tower of Babel… It interests me as an image.. The gathering and distribution of knowledge throughout the ages.. The loss of a common language as alleged by this story about the destruction of the Babylonian tower and the fragmentation of the people by taking their common language from them..
What a strange god that would be.. Complete absence of benevolence, and if this story were true then it would be the root cause of all conflict and war… What a horrible god this would be..I think.
Although give me enough time and I will find ways to also completely agree with such a god. But that another time.
