Simulacra And Simulations

The next step for Lost Dreams is to enter it into the Oram Awards

Applications open 3rd July.

I feel as though it really should be included in some of the summer festivals such as Blue Dot Festival, the Exhibition Road Festival, and other relevant festivals.

It looks as though the future is not looking good for Gravity Fields, which would be ideal for Lost Dreams.

However, I noticed that Woolsthorpe Manor recently had an artist in residence, so I will contact them to find out if Lost Dreams could be installed there instead.

Following the success of Sleep Piece For Yoko Ono for last year’s #InspirationalWomenArtists exhibition and auction, this year, I have submitted Fra Motorveien 1995.

Fra Motorveien 1995 is inspired by Norwegian artist Elisabeth Haarr, Harrison Pushwagner, and my own experiences in Monaco in 1995, with a Nordic Noir style.

You can place bids on Fra Motorveien 1995 here!

The launch event is on #InternationalWomensDay, and I had hoped to make it.

I still hope to make the closing event in April, and an arts travel and networking bursary would be very useful for this!

Lost Dreams has been accepted for the upcoming High Street Happening event in Lincoln, and will be installed for an inaugural exhibition on Saturday 18th March.

It will be installed as an audio visual exhibition in St Mary Le Wigford church, the oldest church in Lincoln, from 11.00 until 6.30p.m.

I’m hoping to work with the Wellcome Collection to follow this.

Lost Dreams is featured in the University of Lincoln Alumni magazine here.

The aim of this is to achieve a paid exhibition at a festival such as Gravity Fields Festival, where art and science are showcased, and my mentor, Sir Isaac Newton, is celebrated; and graduate artists from Lincoln creating pioneering sound art should be celebrated, too.

No one’s work is “better” than this. And you should “like” it more than the other funded work.

It’s #BandcampFriday, so Like and subscribe to the Lost Dreams Bandcamp here to listen to the full tracks, before they are once again removed from the internet to avoid grifting.

I would also like Lost Dreams to be installed at my own sculpture park, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

In 2021, I was awarded a Business Revival Grant from City Of Lincoln Council, which was for vital technology such as a brand new iMac, a new digital camera, a sanitisation station for workshops (yet everyone has since started to act as though Coronavirus has gone away) and Creative Suite software.

I made good use of this software to make two new sound art pieces for Lost Dreams; Elvis Clones, and The Blackbird Of Chernobyl.

I have also refreshed my video editing skills with the use of After Effects and Premiere Pro. After Effects doesn’t work too well on a Mac, so I decided to edit some music videos for Lost Dreams in Premiere Pro.

Elvis Clones and The Blackbird Of Chernobyl were composed from found audio from an online tape archive, the original musicians remain unknown.

There are some video stills and a related excerpt here.

I’m applying to exhibit either the pioneering sound art tracks themselves, and / or the videos, at a gallery or festival following lockdown.

So far, I have tried: Green Man Einstein’s Garden, but they had their own criteria, and as good as it is to focus on climate change, Lost Dreams doesn’t really fit that niche.

Blue Dot – would be perfect, but no reply, and besides, I caught my first bout of Coronavirus just after my birthday (thanks son!) and wouldn’t have been able to make it, as I was suffering from strange skipped heartbeats, dizziness and fatigue, which I never normally get with a cold.

Gravity Fields appears not to be happening this year.

There is a short video clip uploaded to Youtube, which is where all rejection emails should now be sent.

I’m now in the process of moving my website over to a new host, gonna try out Wix. It has an integrated blog, which can be set as a subscription service, and with over 1000 – 2000 views per post, it’s about time I earnt an income for my online content!