A comment just made on my facebook page brought back the ‘fun’ side of the Stockholm trip. I’d been moaning so much in the last couple of days about being tired and that my back ached, that people were starting to comment that perhaps I hadn’t enjoyed it. It was probably that I just didn’t enjoy being in work to be honest…but today I’m off, the sun is out and I can catch up with a few ‘good’ things, while shutting off the few ‘annoying’ ones.
So I’d written my status on facebook as ‘homeward bound’ a few days ago ( when I was actually travelling home) and Bruce from Basement Arts had written a comment about Simon and Garfunkel and the ‘annoying whistling from the booth next door’.
The Booth next to us at Supermarket – ArtMobile: http://www.artmobile.se/ had a tape recorder in a basket with a wig over it. It had recorded whistling…various tunes. This would have been great if we hadn’t been sat next to it almost constantly for 3 days running…. but anyone who has ever invigilated, will know how annoying something like that can be after a while.
So in the last few days, we have made a few new facebook friends from people we met there – including the owner of the booth. She made a comment about our comments, but hopefully she saw the funny side.
It would be difficult to jot down absolutely everything that happened as it would be just too much to read, never mind write about. The gist of it was though, we met a lot of people, made a lot of new contacts….met old friends ( Jet from Small Projects, where we exhibited last year and got the idea of coming to Stockholm from)….and saw some really amazing art.
The South Africans – BlankProjects: http://www.blankprojects.com/ continued to take the ‘P’ out of us, but we got to understand their humour and saw the funny side.
There is a lot of documentation I need to do for the ACE funding and I’ll make a start on that in the next few days. There are also plans to be made for our next project – our response to Stockholm, but again, that will happen in the next few days.
Images of the trip and our booth can be seen on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683985948#!/pages/SCI/170190669682733
