Hello everyone: i am practicing adding links so here are two links we all know!!!!!! metro had a fabulous launch Wednesday night that i could not attend but here is a bit of a peep see!!!!!! go to my facebook page and see liz and dan!!!!!!!! its posted on my home page.
www.metroarts.com.au www.4change.com.au
so it is thursday, and dan and liz and margi are sitting in a restaurant around from metro arts having a meeting.
It takes half an hour to find a suitable stop. we try three places on the river (oh, this is nice, lets try here) and then we leave, all private parties!!!!!!!!and we go back to where we began...just around the corner from metro
so we order some tapas and a drink and talked about process project.
where is it going?
what do we need to do now?
so we are thinking:
1. all of us need to get onto this blog so we can all contribute: ask an adolescent how to do it if it is difficult.
2. we are going to have fun times together it seems: we are on the hybrid path!!!!!! we think a Chef in her kitchen could be a good idea to visit; we could ask Brenda the owner of Mondos and see if she will allow us in! Mondos is a very popular organic restaurant in West End. Fabulous food!
3. We go to the great forests and meet with the wombats! well, we may not be able to fly to Tasmania but we will be able to go somewhere either near Nikki or near us here in Brisbane.
Nature is the greatest advocate of hybridity! lets copy her!
4. Any more suggestions?
5. Nikki we did not discuss this, but to save you always having to come here, perhaps we could also go there? Just a thought. Trying to think creatively how to keep us moving forward when we all have outrageous schedules. Any suggestions?
6. The culmination of this work is June, 2011. i have suggested either early June or late June. What is that like for you both?
well i have tried to upload photos of the evening, and they are rejecting so something about the site may be not working right now.
will upload them tomorrow.
ok, come on. lets start the blog!!!!!!!!!!
Call to Arms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers to all of you
and thank you Metro for taking us out for tapas and a glass of bubbly. very kind!!!!!!!
margi
PS. here is our address for our blogpage
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Hi M, N, L and D
ReplyDeleteWell.....FINALLY. After months of neglect, I've at last found my way onto the blog.
I'm in Warwick at the moment - and I should give you a brief update about what has been happening, and where I'm up to. (I’ll split this over a few posts, as I think it may exceed the Google HTML limit)
I won't apologise for my slackness (even though I absolutely owe it to you all), but I will endeavour to make a lot more effort from now on.
This year has been crazy, with lots of interesting work (for which I'm incredibly thankful) and with a solid affirmation of my desire to live "in interesting times". I've spent most of the last six months away - a month running a mentoring project in Canberra, a month in Lismore with a Creative Development at NORPA, 6 weeks in Melbourne (performing as part of the Festival), and lots of other bits and pieces.
It's been damn hard work, but the creative and personal payoffs have been well worth it. I'm really proud of what I've achieved this year, and have felt really sparked creatively and personally.
I'm in Warwick at the moment, looking after my elderly (89yrs)Mum. She has deteriorated pretty badly with her dementia, even though she is still physically alright. I'm here until just before Christmas, when I head back to Brisbane for a brief season of The Burlesque Hour at BPH with Moira Finucane. Then it's back to Warwick for a few weeks before I hit Brisbane again next year. It hasn't been easy being away from my little nest so much - but such is life.
I think that the most important thing for me to express yowards the Process Project (at this point) is that I am at a bit of a key point in terms of on-going practice/career. I think that this actually dovetails well with the rationale behind the Process Project, in ways that I probably wasn't aware of previously.
I am at an age (and stage of career) that lends itself towards reflection and analysis in a strong way. At 47 yrs, I'm really inclined to take stock of what I'm doing, and to dream forwards into my next half decade. I'll avoid this seeming like a mid-life crisis (!), but I think that I am crossing some kind of threshold, and am really pleased that the PP might play a part in that.
This isn't a signal of a change of direction for me in any major way - rather just a chance to reflect etc. I'm really keen to keep on my pathway (or careering through my career, or practising m practice !), but to try to see it through clearer eyes, and to perhaps more keenly understand it (if possible).
So, where/how does this all come together? How does it fit? How can I allow this network of creative energies that we have nourish my current needs? And how can my knowledge/uncertainties/experiences enrich the interactions that we have?
In remembering the conversations of our brief days together, I immediately remember the sense of "play" that was engendered. The memories of our time together at the Gallery reinforce this. I think that that is one of the things that I am keen to recognise and cherish - If we can keep this sense of play, and find ways to allow it to shape what we do from now on.
ReplyDeleteM immediate idea with this is that any interactions that we facilitate with younger artists or with artists from other forms could and should allow us to enter into situations where we (as in N, M and myself) get to play,and that the nature of these interactions are set up to facilitate it. I find that as I become more of a Senior Artist, I am called upon more as a mentor/leader/advisor, and that my own needs aren't always addressed - either by myself or others.
Yes - I want to get into the kitchen and make a mess. I want to own the fact that I'm a crap cook. I want to discover just how the brilliance of a good/great chef can be reflected on, and how the processes of "chefery" can help me learn about my own creativity.
Yes - I wan to stumble around the technologies that I sometimes avoid through lack of knowledge or experience. I want to take photos that are shonky, I want to wonder at the skills of video artists, and I want to look at how the art/practicalities of architectural programmes like CAD might inform my thinking.
Music Sound Visual Arts Culinary Arts Photography Writing etc etc etc.....
I'm up for it.
But I also want to find the space to share reflection and analysis about these experiences with you all, and to look at how this impacts on my on-going creative self.
So - a sense of play, with exposure to new experiences, both coupled with the chance to discuss, respond and reflect (both here and face-to-face).
I don't want much, do I?
I'll leave it there.....and wait to see how you feel...
B x
Dear Brian and everyone, it has been a joy to read your posts Brian, and i am not unfamiliar with your musings, though we are ten years apart. I have loved the move into senior artistry, whatever than means, and think it is important that as older artists we stay visible and vibrant. thank you for your beautiful honesty and open heart. i so value that. it is an opening and an invitation. i am also thinking of your mum, and your life in Warwick over the next month. i hope it is rich in its connections and you both get to share some sweetness and lightness.
ReplyDeletei am presently in Byron Bay at a conference called 'A Scholarly Affair. it is a cultural studies conference, and i am co-facilitating a session tomorrow, focusing on PhD Ecology (how to create the ecology that supports the academic and the private person). it will be fun. we have planned through skype (one co presenter is in Sydney, and two are in Canada). i have also enjoyed being exposed to interdisciplinary practices. listening to cultural studies (such a broad field in itself) and constantly adapting the new knowings to my own PhD processes. Things i am sitting with are: Southern Theory; responding to ecological degradation and reduction of life through the eyes of the artist; thinking without a bannister; i like that one...margi
Greetings and Salutations!
ReplyDeleteHow for art thou?
This conversation is VERY exciting and I hope that Nikki can join us on here soon!
I am about to pop away on an O/S trip until January but it'd be great to keep this dialogue running.
I like Margi's suggestion for a "week to end the process" in June and I, at this stage, have you down for a week EXPLORING in the Benner with the public outcome on the Friday/ Saturday night.
DON'T BE SCARED BY THE OUTCOME - like we've always said - this could be an artist talk OR something more conceptual.
I've trained Liz and she is ready to jump online - but she has seen your responses and is also thrilled that you've made it back to Brisbane (nay, Warwick) in one piece Brian and that you're back on the Project.
Merry Christmas! And have a joyous New Year!
See you then,
x
D.