Day 5
Tired, worked too long yesterday. Interviewed a few more gallery visitors over cups of tea and coffee (must get some decent china and possibly a few biscuits wouldn’t go amiss) and scripted the dialogue using assigned voices. The scripts can be played, although all the voice choices have American accents, such irony. Questions from me centred on whether the people have a voice and the uniqueness of the person I am meeting. Their questions to me centred on what we are trying to achieve, who it’s funded by, why this work, cross-overs between one art form an another and interest in the way that we are interpreting the rules.
Searched for Person’s Extraordinaire, found some interesting candidates, one of whom lives in Bracknell tried to meet him in Second Life but it is so long since I have been into the ‘other’ world I have forgotten the name of my avatar. The God’s of this ‘new’ world only give you a limited selection of names and I find it hard to take such imposed limits to heart, or come to that, walk. There are wonderful possibilities for communication in this virtual land but I still prefer the sensation of touch. I talk of the importance of drawing, share a mutual love of artist extraordinaire Cy Twombly with one of our visitors. Searched for instructions on how to hold a séance. Keep coming back to ideas around a gathering, a gathering extraordinaire. I drew.
Have been asked to suggest discussion points for a meeting with arts advisor from ARC, Susan Diab. I put forward marketing and visibility because it’s the last thing on my mind when I am inside the work making it. Like now, I realise that I have only put this blog link on my Facebook comments and it was probably rendered invisible after about an hour by all the other comments.
Realised that vox populi, vox dei as an imposed rule means that whatever the people say I must obey.
Since you have now been elevated to the role of God, is there anything that you would like to say?
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