The strange thing about so many events and exhibitions going on at any one time- as in the Liverpool Biennial, sometimes has the knock on effect of ‘arting’ people out. I’m a little concerned that the exhibition that is presently taking place in the venue we will be installing in at the weekend, has had so few visitors. I don’t why that is, as it appears to have had a lot of publicity.
Now I’m worried that the press releases I have sent out will go unpublished on someone’s desk – or worse still, end up in the bin.
Why is it that the Biennial and Independents Biennial are getting so little attention from the media after the initial burst at the opening weekend?
That is something else to worry about as we start working on an invigilation rota. We have managed to get some students from Leeds to come over to do a few hours invigilation each, if we provide accommodation and let them look round the Biennial. Seems good to me, though it has taken time to sort out where they can stay.
The other thing to stress about is that we have invited artists from ArtMobile : http://www.artmobile.se/ to join us for the exhibition. They were in the next booth to us at Supermarket. Really lovely people – but had a really annoying sound installation of someone whistling ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’, which was on a loop and we wanted to scream after listening to it constantly for three days! But still – we somehow want to work with them again!
I’m now waiting for their work to arrive…plus the work of Debra Eck from just outside New York.
I am not even going to think about the second half of the exhibition which will be held in one of the shop units at Albert Dock. I will sign the license on Monday, pick up the keys and hand them over to the artists.
This is turning out to be such a complicated affair – I really hope people come to see our work.
