I am finding some time to blog
not touched this for a while and not even so sure why… truth be told, I am currently rendering a film for a project that is to be screened during an emerging artist symposium at Tramway this weekend – so I decided to whip out TextEdit and get typing…
The film aforementioned is about male pattern balding and has gone through several phases using different creative practitioners at different points. First point of call – the artist Oliver Braid, who is leading the project, spied me out on Facebook, stalked my pictures and decided I was “physiologically apt” – i.e. going bald! He then contacted me to ask if I would be interested in producing a film using a writer’s monologue, which crafts a certain nervous character, who has dealt with the balding process. I said yes. I received the monologue via email and enlisted two actors to play out the script to camera – I got some interesting results and hopefully the film will end up having my mark on it as well as the actor’s and the writer’s.
… truth be told, I am currently rendering this film. I have not made a film like this before and feel oddly under script and within brief. Not sure I like briefs. Hopefully the result will be something aesthetically interesting as well as narratively engaging.
I will get used to it Oliver and so will you…
Another project that is well underway is a collaboration with The Mutual Charter for GI 2012 and artist Jennifer Picken: we have made it to manifesto three and then four five and (six) will result in a show for the festival in April/May and a residency in Amsterdam that develops the project in to a considered exhibition Netherlands style. See here for more information – http://cargocollective.com/audessusde
I was reading through an old guide to Amsterdam round at my partner’s flat the other day. The way they described the gay scene was something of archaic – perhaps it remains the same…
I have heard that if you pick the correct time before noon (approximately 30 seconds prior to the chimes) and wait at one end of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam – and then ride your bicycle with constant speed underneath the museum, you will hear each clock hit ’12’ as you enter in to one side of the tunnel, cruise through the underside, and then reach the other end.
Reach the other end, tunnel and back again with sound
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