rolling my dung, in four acts

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finally, the website is updated. Unfortunately now the conference has come to an end..

continuation …

Now there is my 'problem-child' St Lukes and my "The Watchers / 7 Giants". I have a good feeling that this week will finally see a completion and a set of photographs. Wow. Will I be glad when that is done. What a mamooth project. And actually I will just slip straight into "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus". Which is inexplicable really but i just know it will work. (Ask me again when I am sitting in a corner, ashamed and in despair… worried about progress..) Hopefully it will be my Biennial Project. If anyone will figure out that I would be just THE one to pick for a nice large room with a projector in it, a spotlight and a huge lump of clay….

yes, that's right! I am waiting, looking and pulling at the bit; for a space in the Biennial. But I am equally happy to just do my own thing this year and bring my clay wherever it suits me.

I have art streaming out of every pore tonight. Perhaps it has something to do with the coffee and the chocolate…

Or maybe the muse came and gave me a big bite in the rear end… I certainly feel lively.

… tiredness is stopping me from writing anything that you might want to read…

I have been cutting cardboard to size all day for the Watchers who are taking a phenomenal effort to make. But it will be pretty exciting to finally see them up and running this week.

But this very moment I feel more like a garden womble who has been engaging in madness, not art, all day.

The private view at the Bridewell Gallery on friday went exceptionally well. I was pleased, very, very much so. Vanessa Bartlett the curator did a wonderful job in her selection and arrangement of the artists and their works. The artists are without exception exceptional and I am all over content.

Now that is not something I say very often.

So a round of bravo all around.

I am almost equally please with my show at "Big Hope" at Hope Park / Hope university for which I will receive a fee and have got 500 publications printed. Great. But I am not sure if I am now going to be giving a talk tomorrow or not. They forgot to tell me. So I am somewhat under-prepared for it, but the on the other hand, perhaps I am perfectly prepared. I do nothing but think, walk, talk art at the moment. maybe it is not necessary to write a rigid treatment about myself. I think I might just about be able to talk until kicked off the pedestal as it is.

And I have a pretty organized laptop. So a selection of images is ready to go right now anyway.

Yes, so: actually: I am perfectly prepared. Just I haven't been told when and where…

Apparently I am going to have a 10 minute slot. Exciting!

I am not even nervous. Now I say: 'wow' to that. Instead I am rearing at the bit. (rearing? pulling…)

June 9th-12th public viewing of artist's working progress & June 13th-18th installation "The Watchers"/"7 Giants" at St Luke's Liverpool

June 4th "Khoreia"/ Devotional Choreography during "The Big Hope" International committee meeting at Hope University Park Campus. Liverpool

June 6th "Devotional Choreography" Bridewell Studios Gallery, Liverpool

July -performance- "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus" location Tbc

August – "film"

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After all the madness of what seemed like strategical impossibilities two exhibitions are up and running. In time and in perfect order.

Remaining is the massive project at St Luke's, which due to various circumstances had been closed all week. the venue will re-open to the public on monday which will allow the audience to watch work in progress until wednesday by when the installation will finally stand up on it's legs…

The delay was somewhat unfortunate, but there was just about nothing that could be done with the building locked. I think in the future I will be more aware that alternative venues can have alternative strategies around opening times.

Which means that I will leave some time to allow for adapting. In this case it was reasonably ok, as I have no project that has to follow on to this one immediately.

The Dungbeetle and Sisyphus can be postponed by a week or two, that is fine.

But now I best get back to the workshop before the day slips by underused.

This weather is a disaster!