Simulacra And Simulations

Today I went back to have another look at OPEM @ The Collection.

I’ve otherwise been busy making work for Berlin. I missed out on one exhibition opportunity because I had several all at once.

*edited this post because I had a bad month last month and I’m not sure whether constructive criticism comes across that way*

The LAN is no longer funded at the moment, and securing more funding to continue future projects is now critical for it to continue.

I’ve submitted an LAN NAN Futurific bursary proposal. I’m generally doing this while having mass panics at my own ability to sustain a career in art as a lone parent.

So I was making the LAN NAN bursary application, when Apparatjik sent me this:

http://apparatjik.com/bulletins/

I immediately bought two tickets, which is one of those whims you have to take sometimes, thinking I’d love to go. I dreamt of photographing Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and added a trip to Berlin into the funding application.

Then Apparatjik followed up with this: http://metamergeunltd.cmail3.com/t/ViewEmail/r/302D16C6D64E53DB/177CD37A61094DBFD9767B6002735221

Which I’ll share here, in case anyone else wants to contribute some work for this.

I spent the weekend building a Lego Light Space Modulator for this, and have been having fun photographing the effects, just need to decide which photos to submit.

As Magne loves my work, and I’ve sent things to them before, I can’t see why my creation won’t be chosen by the committee ;-)

And then, funding pending, I can go to the Bauhaus to see what they do with it.

Fingers crossed!

I’m otherwise looking forward to working with Rachel for APT now that the ACE funding has been granted, and hope to combine this with AIR Activists at some point soon.

I was feeling quite glad to move forward and start doing something new, but when I saw this brief, I couldn’t resist lending my “talents” to it:

http://www.dontpaniconline.com//designbrief/norwegian_wood/entry/1155

The only trouble is, I probably need a hefty amount of votes in order to win and have this displayed in London for Curzon, and so I’ve been spamming on twitter a bit. I figured that not everyone is on twitter all the time, and their feeds get inundated with other tweets. Some people seem to be constantly tweeting all the time on there, but I chose not to have Facebook and twitter on my phone, because it’s enough of a distraction as it is, I go out to get away from it!!

The tactic of spamming twitter worked for a Redbubble illustration, I won! And someone bought a print! So this is my reasoning. Also, people are being bombarded with Valentines cards etc, so I need to get my own designs out there, might bring in a bit of income, would be nice.

Meanwhile, I went to the private view for OPEM, and saw a lovely painting there by Jackie Berridge :-)

I contributed something for Lesley Stableford’s video work, and it was good to see what she’s done with it.

Someone pointed out that there was a lot of mention of Nottingham. For an exhibition in Lincoln, I think Lesley must be the only artist I know that is from Lincoln, which is strange, considering there are many talented artists living and working in Lincoln. Maybe that was the suggestion?

I do feel that artists here seem less represented than artists from elsewhere, but was cheered up by Apparatjik’s kind offer.