A lot has happened over the midwinter and new year break, the most important thing is that I didn’t get any Arts Council funding. This is not all negative as I can still go ahead with Jography and it will be changed for the better.
Venues have been either non responsive, dependant on ACE funding or not interested, so it seems that jography will be light on its feet too. So I will rely on opening up discussions on Twitter, and a blog that will run parallel to this blog.
Twitter @JOGRAPHYproject
http://www.jographyproject.blogspot.com/
I have some help on board too, in the shape of Eleanor Shipman, who is a fellow artist that I was at college with. We have hammered out a plan to get an exchange of views on the divisions between art and sport in this the London Olympic year.
The Imapmyrun app will help me to publish my route online and hopefully pull in some discussion from runners all over the world.
I intend to approach my running club, Herne Hill Harriers to start this process off. It is a very long established club and I hope many people will feel they can add to the debate about art and sport.
I have been thinking about Emil Zatopek. an outstanding athlete who won the 5K, 10K and the marathon at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He put his whole heart, soul and body into running, a commitment I try to emulate with both art and running.
