My next show is
Time is Love.4 [show 2]
International Video Art Exhibition
curated by Kisito Assangni
Saturday February 26, 2011
HEXAGON SPACE
1825 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
USA
I’m not sure I was in show one but I’m definitely in show two. I’ve also forgotten exactly what it is that I am showing. I must find time to hunt down the details soon as I have been retained by Kisito to talk about said film at an event in London at the Geffrye Museum. Last time I was invited to do such a thing I threw myself down the stairs in a piece of subconscious avoidance that left me hobbling for days.
In the studio I have been working on a series of films of Glitter/Snow/domes/globes (a necessary nomenclature mainly to do with ebay) Unbidden they have turned into a desparately apocalyptic series with all the joy of “The Road”
I have (at the eleventh hour as usual) entered Standpoint Futures. A residency at Standpoint Gallery. Again I have ambivalent feelings about the whole thing. The entrance fee of £12 put me off. Having to get a reference put me off. Not being able to enter on-line put me of. Having to come up with “an idea” put me off. The looming deadline put me off. really its a wonder I managed to get to the post office to pay £5.50 special delivery. I was not tho only one going through the same process. on Facebook Andrew Bracey was bemoaning his printer’s knack for running out of ink at the vital moment. His anxious status was soon inundated with comments from other artists undergoing the same problems. On the face of it the residency looks quite good with lots of promise of forging London contacts and advice. But I hate advice so I have now started hoping I won’t be called for interview in a couple of weeks. I have just moved into a new studio in the basement of my rented accommodation. It is very exciting getting it all sorted and starting work again.
I have just heard that a whole room of Norwich MA students are being given a lecture about my blogs.
Hello Norwich
This would be funny if they were looking at it live, if not its a bit sad.
I’m writing a residency proposal at the moment. Here’s a quote:
“Douglas Adams posited that successful flight could only be achieved if the aviator allowed themselves to be distracted from the reality of falling (and the ground) at the last minute.”
I don’t think I’ll get it.
Ways not to start a post after a long absence.
1. “Its been a long time since my last post”
Who am I kidding here? – either people know this already or this is their first time and their eyes are already closing. Also it sounds a bit like a visit to the confessional (this would be good if I was about to reveal something salacious, but I’m not)
2. “I’m sorry for not writing sooner”
No one else is. There are hundreds of blogs here, one less won’t do any harm. Or, alternatively, if someone has been waiting, this raises all sorts of awkward questions: “Well where have you been?”, “blogging somewhere else?”, “Why not here?”, “don’t you love us?”
3. “ways not to start a post after a long absence”
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Anyway enough twaddle, the ghost of my undead mother stands at my shoulder. She is ‘not dead’, not ‘a zombie’, I just feel her influence when writing (mostly about punctuation).
I have been blogging elsewhere and have been well… too lazy to keep this blog on the go. I do tend to have long periods of laziness and boredom and, on the whole, I don’t think they do any harm. I have been pulled back into action by a couple of comments on my previous post about the Artsway Open. Susan Francis was kind enough to tell me she was going to the opening and to report back on what it was like (I was stuck in Ipswich). I had entered a drawing of a spaceship on a whim having forsworn opens for all eternity. I didn’t expect to get in, but my choice of submission was based on how easy it would be to post it if it did. (and I had a nice photo for the email submission). Sue said everything else in the show is quite serious and my little drawing is not. Here is a picture of it
Trapped in my lair suffering from a depressive illness I have been working on an arts council grant application to lure thousands of artists to their deaths. Today I finally pressed the “submit” button (actually I pressed it about 10 times and had to fiddle the numbers before it was finally sent) . The full story of the application can be read at www.pearlville.blogspot.com
I will try to keep this blog up to date with any future developments
