Back tracking…
I have something to say…
Throughout the second semester of my second year, we were tasked with a collaboration project, something I very much dreaded. Looking back now I suppose it was a learning curve, getting the students to talk about their work, present ideas and work with an outside source. There were several avenues I thought about, but I ended up working with the Students Union here at UCS. Now I wouldn’t say it was a total fail working with them, but no final work from me was ever put up, although it was all ready to go just needed their go ahaed, communication broke down and I was forgotten about amongst a Union staff reshuffle. My emails were answered by the interim events organiser who mistook me for someone else, instead of talking about and organising the next steps for installing my artwork, he was emailing me about the possibility of hiring a mobile fridge unit for the Union Bar so they could have their freezer cleaned.
We progressed nowhere from that point, my emails weren’t being replied to and the artwork was lost, never to grace the walls of the Union Bar. The work is based on a Martin Creed quote and it was my reaction to the connection he had with UCS and also the fact that as a university, students often let stress take over, it was my way of letting the students know that they are not alone in their worries.
I suppose I wanted to write this entry as a reminder that when working with an outside source you really have to be on top of everything in order for it to work out right, but occasionally things are out of your control and you just have to suck it up and start again.
