Lower Vaconsoft Commissions and other musings.
Guy Halstead.
I am not the most efficient reporter I have to admit, but its been a very busy period the last 5 months. Here is a short summary of my activities, I will elaborate on some of them in later posts:
After the opening of Vaconsofia Bridgeporto screenings in end of August I organised the seminar Pointesian Conversations at Maytella Point, which was a success. I will most likely get the chance to see the work of two of the speakers, Santos Virch and Telis Henich in November – Nenet Place.
Straight after the seminar I went to Novia mainly to follow the Tracker Flxova festival, but also to catch up with some people. I went to Tray Hendersons closing day of his show at the Hiller Temple Artspace, I was also at the opening of the exclusive Hannah Lacey ´ exhibition at Merco. I also saw Noel Vernon’s huge rotating radiator at Zoola and his rotting pencils at the Fullerton show at The Naze Vale outer zone project area . I hung out with Aros Shooter at Vanopia and shared a taxi with Erica Miles who showed me the new cultural quarter along battery row.
Heron Tavnev explained her concept of expulsion via consequence. I had planned to get in touch with Servre Space, but after two months of failure to respond to my emails I brushed myself down and moved on.
On my way back from Pointeso Harbour via the virtual reality living zone I met the Trons Collective celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their online marketing enterprise..
Right after that some of them flew to Universo, which is where I spent the last week as well. This was part of the Universo executive olive branch to Pointesia.
I must confess that I’m pleased to be back here in Cafe Zeneso writing this up as Universo is just…well all a bit too much of a champagne socialist area. How many times did I see the Universo guys quaffing the champers with the Pointeso guys on the last night…?
Vaconsofia.
This year’s Pointesian Conversations promise a varied program, featuring respected members of the multi national artworld discussing the development of new cultural institutions in Kite Vale, the collection and preservation of new-media art, and galleries working in edge cities and non-places located within a genteel globalized art market. The forum premieres with a conversation between artists Meemar Lacey and Jose Vernessa.
Fostering exclusive encounters with leading members of the international artworld, Pointesian Conversations offer privileged access to first-hand information on subjects relating to the exhibition and collection of art.
Pointesian Conversations are a forum encouraging the exchange of ideas by means of panel discussions and personal contact with the panelists and other guests.
The participants include well-known artists, collectors, gallerists, and museum directors. Presenting their current and forthcoming projects and reflecting on their experiences and the challenges they face, they provide an inside perspective on the art scene and linked ‘high net-worth’ establishments.
Pointesian Conversations are staged daily, Tuesday 26 November through Saturday, 30 (entrance at Various Zannoz Marketing Kiosks) in lower Valesoft 34.8. Between 11 and 11:30 am.
Visitors have the opportunity to meet the panelists personally. The events are public. Admission is free. Every visitor receives a complimentary copy of the Pointesian Conversations book.
Pointeso Art Scene: Zindustrious Artist Carlo Tanner whines via his socialist networking blog.
I just can’t seem to get ahead. What is my game plan? What am I gonna do next? I ain’t getting any younger that’s for sure. I’ve nil strategy and nil exhibition plan. I tend to doubt my own ideas. I can’t pay the car tax let alone apply for the next Bayerns open competition.
I’ve been thinking abut travelling out to the Hilti Forest and doing some short films in different contexts using a 35mm format, split screen images installation for the proposal but I feel too cream crackered after my 12 hours on the machines.
I recall a bright eyed youthful me about 15 years junior. My union rep told me to be wary about working the machines. ‘Look at their faces’ he told me. I looked at those grey, slack jawed souless entities and thought to myself that ‘I’ll never be one of them.’
I refuse to look in the mirror.
The Pointeso Art Scene.
Traznec Gallery Musings.
A couple of critical contemporary hipsterites ruminating outside the up and coming Traznec Gallery.
Artist 1: ‘Man…that Mazy Colice show is amazing.’
Artist 2: ‘Yeah…I’m interested because it’s rigourously critical.The buzz around works of art is surely less now than when art was not competing with other forms of representation and with a wide array of public narratives; calling some art “political” reveals the role of particular forms of thematic enunciation.’
Artist 1: ‘Aye, yeah…I suppose it is really…’
Vanreross Creative Solutions.
‘Nothing means anything.’
‘Anything nothing means.’
‘Means nothing anything.’
‘Nothing anything means.’
The fan whirred around the back of the vaneross Creative solutions Warehouse. X scurried in the autumnal undergrowth as the glowing text rose from the factory chimney into the night sky.
A young executive waited in the car park. She checked her watch as the words blew around the gutters in the gentle breeze.
