On Sunday 15 June at 2pm I will be discussing my work alongside other artists and Tracey Warr at the Visions in the Nunnery show. Warr has curated City Choreographies a programme that concentrates on the relationship between the city and its pedestrian inhabitants, screening at the Nunnery on Saturday from 12 - 2pm and 3 - 6pm, at 2pm she will be in conversation with Alan Smith, one of the artists whose work is featured in the programme.I'm looking forward to this very much as clearly the themes of Warr's programme connect strongly with the selection of Direct Language videos screening at Visions in the Nunnery (Direct Language 1, 8, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 3.2, 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 - which can all be viewed on the videoblog), with their variously rhythmically edited sequences of skateboarders, ad hoc synchronised dancing in a Soho square, visual Dopplerised U-bahn trains, cable car landscapes, jittery urban spaces and so on, they are very much dancing about architecture, enunciations of the city space by the pedestrian inhabitants and the author, of course, is one of their number.
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Looks like it clashes with Tony Conrad speaking at Tate Mod, hmmmm
and its father's day.....perhaps a live link-up between all concerned......
"I regard curating and writing as in a continuum with artists’ practice as opposed to separated categories from them." from the blurb by TW .....This a position nearly always peddled by curators piggy backing on the work of artists. Sure some artists can curate and programme but hardly any curators can make art...
I'll see what I can do about a live link up with my father then...
It's possible also that many artists are actually wannabe curators, more employment opportunities.
... but generally it's preferable to just get on and do it rather than feeling the need to make statements about one's practice, this is the sort of vanity stuff that working as an academic encourages... not immune meself obv.
re: city choreographies
perec's "lieux d'une fugue" would have been a fine piece to see.
robert bober's " en remontant la rue villin" ('92) is another fine urban description via 500 photos of perec's investigations of his childhood street.
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