Another early-ish start to the day, as I called into the Albert Dock office to sign the licence and show proof of Public Liability insurance ( Thank you a-n!) for unit 8, before I headed on to work.
My job this week entails keeping accounts, and checking money to be banked, so I’m really concerned that I have to keep focussed on the job and not let my mind wander on to the exhibitions too much, in case I start to make mistakes. I had considered taking the next few days off work, but I’d rather see if I can manage without doing that, so that I can save a few days leave at the end of all this ‘mad time’ to keep just myself.
Lydia Catterall arrived this morning, so I took her to the unit to start setting up. She will be doing a mini residency in the unit, her ‘collaborative processes are concerned with audience engagement’ I believe, but I can talk more about that in a later blog (When I actually understand what she is doing! )
Bruce Davies and Phill Hopkins had hired a van in Leeds to bring the rest of the work down to Liverpool to fill both the Bridewell and unit 8. Sooooo – they arrived late afternoon, went to Bridewell, met Jean McEwan there and they started installing, before bringing the rest of the work down the hill to install at Unit 8. Phew. Confused yet? Well, I know that I have a splitting headache while I’m writing this and believe me, there was just a little bit of tension in the air this afternoon!
The really nice thing though, is finally meeting some of these artists in person. For the ‘Stockholm project’ we did a callout for artists to send in their proposals for us to take over there. Several of the artists came across also, but we went to Stockholm mostly as strangers to each other . I still hadn’t met Jean or Phill until today, but after corresponding with each other so much over this project, I felt anyway, that we’d known each other for years.
