tenyearstoturner

…try to upload an image to this a-n blog again and wonder why it’s now harder than it was…why makes things more difficult….previously you just clicked on your image and boom…easy peasy…now it’s not so…

…that seems to be a consensus…so far I’ve had that advise from In Certain Places and Sophia Crilly…so why I am reluctant…although saying that my friends son is working on one…and then whatta yer know the day after he sends an email to say it’s ready…so I do now have a website…

…back to my reluctance…upkeep…the constant upkeep…I see websites that aren’t kept up-to-date and my impression is a negative one…although that doesn’t necessarily make any sense…artists can be between jobs, so to speak, between projects…I have a studio for the first time since graduating and feel fine to just be cracking on, making work, having a rhythm…my arguments against may seem weak…but I still have an underlying feeling that things have a way of working themselves out…one thing leads to another…granted that each time the spread should increase a little if there’s to be more exposure…but at the back of my mind there’s still that old ‘who you know’ network chestnut…

…ways round the website scenario….axis website…list photos without dates so cannot see CV mind the gaps…delayed delegation…if I get ACE GFA funding then I will…in the meantime I could tweet a postcard every day…a greetings from…or a sunset…for some reason I don’t mind up keeping/keeping up…with twitter…maybe it’s the short, sharp, shock…in and out…nature that make sit more amenable…

Three, one month long, durational interventions in civic space, aimed at engaging members of the public, as audience and participants. Through the action of giving ‘a penny for your thoughts’ I intend to create a collaborative exchange as a means to discuss contemporary art, which will contribute towards ‘in-conversation’ events at each activity partner venue (Castlefield, Manchester; The Grundy, Blackpool; The Birley, Preston) with a curator, an artist and an academic; a printed publication of photographs including three critically engaged essays responding to the activity; video hosted on publicly accessible social media sites; an artist-newsletter blog and twitter.

‘Borders matter – which is why one of the first acts of the “Islamic State” was to bulldoze the sand berms along the old Sykes-Picot frontier that separates Syria and Iraq.’
Robert Fisk, 30/01/2015