I have called my Ingeborg Bachmann piece I.B.
I've just realised this also stands for Incommensurable Banner.
The collective protest banner that I started off in the gallery is not working at all. I am considering ditching the whole endeavour. I have not managed to start it off in such a way that others want to keep it going. It would require, I can see, my active involvement in generating interest around it. But I am too busy being involved in what is happening with my work in my studio and in this blog and in talking to people while I am in the gallery. I talked to Jane Fordham today when I was at Fabrica about this. She said the collective banner project is too hidden. It is. It is in a box. I sent an email to Tasha last week to forward to all the volunteers to try to generate some new enthusiasm about it. It doesn't seem to have made much difference. I think I'll leave it for now and talk to Tila tomorrow about it if she is in.
Perhaps it is just too much to ask to expect people to want to leave a visual response to Hirschhorn's banner. I have been considering my own responses since April this year and for most visitors, their first view of the work does not leave them in a position to consider making a contribution to an ongoing art project.
In my statement to accompany our open studios exhibition about how we use photography I wrote that I am a lightning conductor for people's reactions to the work. Their reactions aren't bolts of lightning though; rather perceptible only as small flickers.
