Meeting next week

Hi all

I'm posting this following a chat with Rachel and Lucille... we're all really looking forward to next weeks meeting but were feeling that the meeting may not be long enough! I know it was rearranged to start at 4pm, Biggi was it your work commitments i recall? I sympathise with that but just thinking by the time we all catch up it'll take a while for us to get into the swing of it and maybe you wouldn't miss so much by the time we all have chatted... And with so many of us it will take a while to get round everyone and see where we are up to? Plus now we are deciding whether the show should be in Feb and the time scale has changed the approach may be different - Franko what do you feel? I don't wish to leave anyone out...

Sorry i've been a bit blog absent, looking forward to giving things a new injection of energy.

Love mads

x

Artsadmin 3 October - Test Run - HELP

Hi all,
I am doing a test run at Artsadmin on Wednesday next week. I have advertised it through Arts News and don't have a single response. I need your help. Is anybody willing to participate and give me some feedback? Here is my posting:

3. 3rd October Participatory Live Test Run

Biggi Stiller is looking for people to participate in
one of her new
live art pieces that is currently in its development stage.
It will take place
in studio 5 at

Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, London E1 6AB
on Wednesday 3rd October.

Biggi has started using her work to set up experimental
"windows" to experience social challenges turning the
observer into an active participant. She enjoys
exploring human complexities in an often regulated set-up
offering an intriguing space for challenging experiences.
She has tested this particular piece on friends and fellow
artists and is now ready to involve others. Interested
people will need to book a space.

There are three 30min timeslots
throughout the day offering 7 places each.


Please book here for a place:

http://www.biggistiller.net/index.php?page=News_Detail&article=PERFORMANCETRIAL

During these 30mins there will be a questionnaire that can
be filled in to provide the artist with some useful feedback.
The event will also be filmed for documentation.

If you have any further questions please contact the artist
Biggi Stiller
mailto:b.stiller@btinternet.com
07877789271
http://www.biggistiller.net

Down and out in Münster.....

Crashed and burnt trying to be clever videoing while cycling...

I was waitng for the galkers to stop staring before I got up! I only ended with a grass stain!

see you all next week!!

hello all,

i think february is a good month....to be honest as much as i like to do things in weird times around the year ( like xmas) i do think xmas is not a popular time for an exhibition... everyone unfortunately around that period is out shopping and doing all the crap xmass things that people do....even the interesting people of this city...somehow everyone buys this whole xmass bullshit tradition...so maybe february is good for us.....
that is my humble opinion even though i am open to every possibility...

hope everyone is well and looking forward to seing you on the 5th and yes i think i will be available to go for drinks/ food after the meeting...
roxani

further further developments..........

and now... what do you think.. should we do it in febuary

dear franko,

I am sorry if didnt reply earlier i am in rome back to london tonight
yes of course you can have the febraury slot

Baci francesco

It has been a long time since I was here….and in part, aside from being, or at least feeling busy, for a few weeks I have avoided being here simply because there I feel like there is too much to say, and it becomes easier to say nothing at all.

But, I want to be here now, to let you know I am still alive, and feeling very much alive! I went part time at work about a month ago now, and it is proving to have been a good decision. Being at home on Thursdays and Fridays now, the more I do the more I realise I could do…the possibilities seem to open up a little and my perspective has changed considerably. I have the time to actually think about my work and get excited…. to allow ideas to surface and articulate themselves. I just generally feel happier than I did at the beginning of the summer, and I am certain this is due to the shift in focus from dull day job to actually being able to think of myself as an artist and make those things I want to be a priority actually be a priority….

I am able to move into Wysing hopefully in a couple of weeks, so my two days not at work I can spend making and thinking about my work, which feels like an incredibly precious luxury. It is quite strange to look back to this time last year and think about how stressed I would get when I didn’t feel like I was making work… I feel much calmer about my approach, my practice, (maybe this will change and oscillate between panic and calm still), but I am better able to trust my own instincts and know that to not be actively busy all the time isn’t a bad thing…it’s just how I work, it takes, and needs time. Don’t get me wrong, there are still waves of insecurity and paranoia, but they are often balanced out by the excitement with the actual work, and having more time now to be with the work, or its traces and possibilities, the more able I am to forget the doubt and jump in the deep end with just doing it and not worrying about it.

I guess I am maybe putting off doing some work by choosing to write to you all first. I did some filming whilst in Italy, and I feel so excited about the visual traces it has left me with…I don’t want to lose the hope about the work, because it is so rich, and it’s not definite, but all those beautiful things I can envisage there being, the possibility of it becoming something…and actually when I think about the work I made last August, which some of you have seen, I felt a similar sense of not knowing what it was I had captured and how it would exist outside of what I hoped for it. The image above is somehow part of the work….at least it was taken in the same space, and it has something of what I want for the footage I have…I will have to let you know how I get on when I do actually set aside the time over the next few days to watch the footage and think about it.


I have finally bought a car, a little black VW Lupo from some friends. So I can get out to Wysing and even come down to London now just for an evening without worrying about how to get back in time on the train for work the next day. Having said that I got hopelessly lost trying to get home from Redbridge on Saturday night- my driving is ok, but my navigation skills leave a lot to be desired! But, as with many other things in my life, it feels like an experience that I can smile about and throw myself into like an adventure rather than get too scared.

I do hope everyone is well, and I look forward to catching up with everyone in October at Toynbee. Are people sticking about after the meeting for a drink or maybe some food?

Take care, love Kat.

further developments

have reoplied to franceseco's email to say that we don't want to do it in january and have suggested feburay. anyway this is a good opportunity to meet even if the show doesn't go ahaed. we can talk about strategies about how to do it somewhere else.. if it doesn't yhappen with this gallery it's not a negative thing ..... we are more famous than them. x x x x x

de-mentored itches

check this out... i think it's bullshit, i think he's been wasting our time. january is a crappy month. we could ask him to move it to febuary which would be better, or should we just tell him to fuck off???

franko-..

Ciao Franko,

i hope you well, are you still enjoying the italian pleasures, sun sea
and food?
i am writing to you because of the de-mentored exhibition
I been thinking about the dates and it would be much better to have
the show after the christmas holiday beginning of january, this
decision because i thought it would be odd to open the exhibition on
Wednesday 19 December when people are busy with christmas stuff close
the gallery for holiday and re open after new year eve (we usually
reopen 6 or 7 january)
So it wouldn't be better to have the de-mentored show after that?
Something like 9 or 10 January?
Also i want to be honest with you Franko as you can imagine things are
quite difficult at the gallery i am really struggling to keep the
gallery open there are so many expenses and the stress is a lot at one
point after the summer i even thought to close it but after that i
decided to go ahead...
Is not evenone year and is a bit early to quit
So in order to keep the gallery open i had to find other ways to
substain it and one came up recently to rent the gallery for a week
show early October but of course i had to rearrange the calendar
I hope you understand me and i do apologise about this change even if
i think that it would be much better to have your show beginning of
Janaury

Best x,

Francesco
--
whitecross gallery
122 whitecross street
London EC1Y 8PU
+44 (0)207 253 4252
http://www.whitecrossgallery.com

urgent

important,
don't forget to come to the meeting on the 5th 0ctober from 4-6 at the arts cafe at artsadmin to discuss the group show 'de-mentored'. anyone who doesn't come will not be in the show. check the blog...
does anyone have evangelia's email address, if so please forward this to her.
best franko.. see you there x x x x x x

breath conference at tate

take a deep breath
A conference at Tate Modern, London
15 - 17 November 2007

Nikos Navridis
Difficult breath #9, 2004.
Call for Submissions
Deadline for submissions: 10 September 2007

Breathing is a vital practice, yet most of us hardly ever think of the process. Recent environmental and
ethical developments are calling for a rethinking of the value of breath and its manifestations in
culture and beyond.
Take a deep breath is an interdisciplinary conference on the social, cultural and scientific ramifications
of breathing. It will explore the influence of breath on the work of various theorists and practitioners
and encourage a critical discussion by featuring talks, visual art projects, performances, film
screenings, and musical events.
We would like to invite contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including: visual and performing
arts, literature, architecture, music, philosophy, theology, biomedical and environmental sciences and
sports. Participants are encouraged to submit contributions exploring the following themes:
• Visible/Invisible Respiration: There is general agreement that it can be heard and smelt, yet
why is it taken for granted that respiration is an invisible manifestation of our being alive?
Artists have often explored this paradox. What lies in this tension between the visible and the
invisible breath?
• Contaminating Breath: The exhaled breath brings out in the world an amalgam of volatile
components ranging from vital oxygen to poisonous carbon dioxide. Breathing is vital, yet it
can also be fatal. To breathe upon is potentially to infect or contaminate.
• Hold It Exercise It Manipulate It Breathing can be subjected to active and passive forms of
control. What are the ways with which we control and manipulate our breath? Does the loss
of breath result in the loss of control, or perhaps is it the other way round?

• Beyond Breath: Can we think of breathing beyond its principal corporeal function? Breath as
pneuma and psyche has always been of great significance to psychology, psychiatry,
philosophy and religion. What are the effects of euphoria and phobias, panic attacks or
asphyxia? Is there life after breath?
Keynote speakers include:
Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck College/ London Consortium)
Professor Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College)
Mark Cousins (Architectural Association/ London Consortium)
Submission guidelines: Paper proposals of 1000-1500 words outlining a 20 minutes presentation or full
papers (max 4500 words) and a curriculum vitae of no more than two pages should be submitted via
email by 10 September 2007. Visual or/and sound material should be submitted via email at
breath@londonconsortium.com or as DVD/CD copies at the following address:
Take a deep breath
The London Consortium
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
12 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
UK
All papers and presentations will be in English.
Selection and Notification: All contributors will be notified whether their submission has been selected
by 20 September 2007.
Dispatch Costs: Contributors are responsible for the costs of sending any visual or sound material.
Submissions can only be returned if the applicant provides a self-addressed and stamped envelope.
Duration: Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 of November 2007
Venue: The conference will take place at Tate Modern.
Take a deep breath is organised by Irini Marinaki, Martine Rouleau and Konstantinos Stefanis in
collaboration with The London Consortium and Tate Modern.
The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck
College, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and TATE. We offer challenging, rigorous postgraduate
programmes in the Humanities and Cultural Studies leading to a Master of Research (MRes) or PhD
degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London. For more information visit:
www.londonconsortium.com
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us by email at
breath@londonconsortium.com
2007-09-19

LOVE

please have a look at the new images i have put on my 'LOVE' blog. the add. is

http://jacoblove.blogspot.com"

if you click on the images you can view them large, but i guess you all know that by now.

hope your all doing well. i start collage at the end of sept, so am excited about that and also seeing you all again in oct.

any feedback on the images would be great-


jacob