Are you good at keeping a diary?

An online blog is really some form of diary isn't it? I was never that great at keeping a diary which would explain why I blog intermittently. I'm planning a new "months" resolution (rather than New Year) to keep this blog up to date. So in the meantime here's a note of what I have been doing since the completion of WORKS in June 2011;

August 2011

 

14 August 2011, first show at The Wig, the new studio and exhibition space I have co-founded with Chris Clinton. Despite it being the week of the Birmingham riots we had a great turnout and the one night show was well received, such a shame we didn't film it, we had the sounds of found reggae on vinyl reminiscent of the history of the place, inviting visitors to "play me". Great show, amazing artists Jeanette Deen, Emma Little, Michael Bold, Chris Clinton
http://morecanalsthanvenice.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/sample-it-loop-it-f-ck-it-delete-it/
http://chrisclintonartist.blogspot.com/2011/08/wig-sample-it-loop-it-fuck-it-delete-it.html



September 2011
Junction Festival of Contemporary Art, Chapel Ash Wolverhampton - co-curator of 14 live venues including pubs, restaurants, beauty salon, studios, brewery with 21 artists, an amazing opportunity, and fantastic to work on. check out http://junctionwolverhampton.org/ & http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2332998885170.133086.1255730611&type=3 for more photos

September - October 2011
More developments at The Wig, we have been joined by Kate Hattley, Tobias Hansrich, Alena Adamkova, Teresa de Miguel Riber and of course Chris Clinton and myself.

21-30 October  2011 The Event      theevent.org

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2503326983266.138504.1255730611&type=3 
I delivered Guerilla Gastronomy on behalf of the wonderful Companis www.companis.co.uk, Kaye Winwood and Sian Tonkin who are both on maternity leave. A series of surprise lunch boxes evoking the notion of the edible without always providing real sustenance! inspired by fluxus instruction boxes - flux kits, they infiltrated the everyday menu at Eastside Cafe, we were even visited by the BBC's culture show - shame we didnt make it to be included in their 7 minute sweep of everything cultural in Birmingham. Here's a picture of Michael Smith after taking part in "Eat Yourself" (courtesy of Alli Beddoes) in contrast with Food of Confusion participants below (courtesy of Gemma Marsh)....

It was the most fantastic experience, sourcing and preparing the boxes and contents, co-ordinating with Dorinda at the Cafe, presenting to stakeholders and the great and the good of West Midlands arts scene!
And most importantly working with Companis... 

so I'll end there with my brief but action packed updated... more to come next month - in preparation for my presentation at university on my Research in Practice, an exploration of Companis practice and developments at The Wig