I have just got in from the airport after a great weekend in seville, i'm feeling totally relaxed now (although i'm sure one day in the office will put paid to that!). So I am starting to look forward and have only just realised how soon the interim show is! No matter, would like to use it to try out ways of using the sounds I have been recording, I have been thinking about various possibilities since Diana brought it up at the progress meeting last week. I wonder if its too late to get a space for the show?
Anyway, we went to see an exhibition called "One of Many - Origins and Variants" by Allen Ruppersberg and the Andalucian Centre for Contemporary Art, I found it really inspiring - isn't it strange how, without any deliberate planning, you can so often find something in other people's work which relates to your own? He has done a whole series of pieces where he has recorded fragments of conversations on postcards and displayed them with related photos, there was also a room full of canvasses covered in writing which seemed to be a story written from everyday life. But the bit that grabbed me the most was his 'singing posters':
Inspired by a 1959 recording of Beat poet Ginsberg’s epic poem Howl, Ruppersberg transcribed the words phonetically on to some 200 bright posters and interspersed them with adverts. The effect is such that, to read the words, you must sound them out - otherwise they are difficult to decipher. (www.24hourmuseum.org.uk)
