For the past two weeks I have been struggling with my failure to secure any funding. The NAN Futurific bursary wasn’t successful, so I couldn’t go to Berlin to see my work there. I no longer feel able to keep going with the LAN.
This is despite the fact that a small group of us are involved in a new exhibition entitled “Fictions”, to be exhibited at gallery in St. Martins, Lincoln in September 2011.
I’m now seeking crowdsourced funding for this, otherwise I may join UKUncut and occupy a bank somewhere.
But in reality, I still need to decide when the best time is for me to work with Jack and Pippa to initiate an AIR Activists event in Lincoln.
I also have a solo show to prepare for at Alley Cafe in Nottingham. I initially enquired about having an exhibition there last summer for November, but only heard back about a month or two ago. This will be a retrospective, as it was meant to be for my A-ha themed illustrations. It seems a bit too little too late, but now I have that portrait of the artist with Morten Harket, I guessed it would be most postmodern exhibited in a cafe.
Still the question of how to have copies of my comic printed remains.
It’s not quite the same as actually being able to go, but here are my submissions for Apparatjik’s Light Space Modulator at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apparatjik/sets/72157626168097445/
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/apparatjik/page179
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/apparatjik/page180
i’m not very happy to be categorised in photos as a “fan” and not an “artist” (by other fans). I find it ever harder to be a “fan” and the power structure that embodies this. Apparatjik themselves would not categorise us that way, they deliberately redefine the boundaries. It would of course have been better to have gone myself and had the opportunity to meet the creative forces behind this, and also because it feels rude not to attend the show.
Here’s a six minute video with Apparatjik:
http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/258363/
They invited me to their “dissemination of information” and have been trying to avoid other people’s tweets of the events in Berlin that I should’ve attended but couldn’t. I feel so unprofessional and disappointed that I couldn’t make it in the end.
Yet I still have to hope that something good will come of it, and also concentrate on moving forward with new projects.
