“This month ArtEvict has moved around the corner from Tate Modern. Be there and experience what is really happening on the contemporary front. Explore the 5 floors of an abandoned Victorian Storage Factory and stumble across various durational, live interventions throughout the evening.”
AND YOUR LIPS ARE TRUE TOO AS MY STUDIO BECOMES THE SEAT ON A TRAIN – WONDERFUL ON THE EAST COAST.
Once again I look forward to a week of travelling around the country – this travelling lark seemed to lark upon me as soon as I larked up to Glasgow last July – Glasgow is a far cry from many-a-place (13 hours train journey from Penzance for instance – that was a killer). Anyway the week after the next takes me to Bangor, Bristol, Aberystwyth, London and Brighton all in one week to deliver talks and present at events – to discuss the very genre of online platforms that Artists talking is – and their validity to a learning structure for art students and as professional tools for others.
Thursday the 29th of April lands me at Slade School of art to talk to students from the London colleges – it was on this evening that I was initially invited to perform with Kimbal at April’s ‘issue’ of ArtEvict: then the date changed to the 24th and the ever illusiveness elongated itself.
I got a mail out today from Kimbal – advertising this month’s event – this time you need a password to get access – something of a backstage pass to a building that is ‘just around the corner from the Tate Modern’. No more instructions I think you have to land a well-placed email in their inbox to find out more.
Kiki is another of the ArtEvict gang – I got a separate email from her asking for a short description as to the performance ‘I’ am planning. Well – er – I’m not the performer, I am the facilitator and therefore I prefer to remain hidden and let my actions do the performing. This is a difficult one. But then I remember how I used to dress myself in multiples of A0 paper back at university – something of making my own drawing space that no one could see until I had finished and cut myself out at the end. I might tell her there is to be a lot of cutting and a lot of pasting – Kimbal can go off and perform somewhere ‘wow the crouds’ and I’ll just make a drawing act.
Another thought I have had is to use the audience as drawing tools – enforcing them to pair up – be tied to the back of one another: one blind folded with charcoal, paper and easel to hand – the other to see the subject (but not the drawing) and to enact the movement of drawing. The contraption will suffice in transferring one’s vision to another’s movement on the page. A conference in process. Kimbal will be the subject as I take photographs by way of remote.
Hidden space – travelling, thoughts and communication-ist
