Another show
I will also have 3 pieces in this gallery for the “Outside > In” show.
http://workingwithartists.com/galleries.html
2 new blogs under construction
Grad Seminar
http://cugradseminar.wordpress.com/
Barchael (a collaboration with Mike Bernhardt)
barchael.wordpress.com
Time of the season …
It is coming to the time of year when I need to start thinking about shows, presentations, editing, and more meetings. I’ve had a number of interesting meetings recently. I work best in conversation and have recently been inspired by a number of comments from these conversations. I’ve built a committee of artists from differing media that I will present to for my first-year review. I want to have input from as diverse a group as possible. As I want to move beyond the passive image hung on a wall, I have invited a photographer, a painter, a multi-media web and performance artist, and a video artist to be on my committee. I am interested in their ideas on my currently work as well as what influence their experience may have on my future explorations.
For this meeting I am to provide a number of things, including a bibliography of relevant texts. Initially, I thought this may be limited and that I should only include things that relate to my current work. After a bit of reflection, I have come to realize that this will be quite a substatial list of past, current, and soon to be read boooks. I’m doing my best to utilize the library and not add to my amazon wish list (no matter how much I want to).
Here is a passage from one of the books that has been recurring for me this semester:
” Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
“By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps that had been a possible future of his and is now someone else’s present. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
— from “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino
I am having ideas about a number of directions. Some involve simple grid-based exhibition design, some using packaging, while others involve ziplock bags. All are relevant ideas, but so divergent that I feel like I may be juggling too many thoughts at the moment. Though I may feel like this is a lot, I still haven’t had the time to start on the web, interactive, or film ideas I have. There is so much work to be done and so little time. Maybe this summer will give me the opportunity to catch up?
