by the way...

have been working on my own project too... at last have managed to find some time - unfortunately it meant quitting my main job, so now am stony broke and have to move out of my very convenient house-sitting arrangement in ladbroke grove. so back to brighton and those hideous train fares, eek.

so i'm doing this 'show' at the end of march in a building site in hammersmith. i'm really excited about it. it's going to be at about the same time as the interim show and will link to the website i am building for that (i'm not going to be physically present at the interim show, but my website will go live at the same time - am using it more as a deadline than an actual show). Anyway, the one in hammersmith... it's going to be a group exhibition with two painters and maybe a video artist, so i don't want to do a very theatre-y performance thing. So its going to be quiet a subtle intervention-type thing and i'm going to use bluetooth and mobile phones to continue this idea about fragments of stories and dream/memory spaces. the exhibition is a one-night only thing, which suits me, so am just waiting for a definite date and then i will let you know.

in the meantime am trying to organise a seminar from these people - please check them out: http://www.avatarbodycollision.org/ and http://www.creative-catalyst.com/

two storm wood and other ventures

wow, i haven't blogged for ages, how lax of me. Actually, i haven't even written a thank you letter to my grandad for my christmas present, that's how busy i've been! I've gone straight to the bottom of his favourite grandchildren list. Am going to write a grovelly letter, just as soon as i've finished this blog... hmmm... not sure if my priorities are quite right there...

so thanks for the huge support for the play! only kidding, i know how it is - i've been equally crap in supporting VLP in general recently. Anyway, it went ok. Bit weird, we got a new director 4 days before opening (long political story) and half my set got scrapped, so although it looked ok, it didn't really make any sense. My friends who came to see it assured me this didn't matter, that they thought it looked cool anyway and that they probably wouldn't have been that influenced by the design concept anyway, which made me realise just how futile my job is! Hours of obsessing over how to achieve my vision of oversize children's play-blocks which doubled as packing boxes were clearly well spent, and my genuine horror of creating a black box space with a single 'dramatic' focal point was realised. But such is life, these things happen. Overall the play - which, by the way, was genuinely a really wonderful piece of writing - was well received and got a pretty decent write up in the Daily Mail. Lets just hope it transfers somewhere and i get to redesign it.

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