Ah, show is up, I have a title.. it’s not the most amazing thing I have ever done, but that disappointment is partly due to the fact that I can’t show the animation alongside the sculpture.. otherwise it will do. This exhibition could have really done with a curator.. as it is, it looks like two solo shows with the rest of us squeezed between.. no actually, Rait is in a little room on his own and that works well. But a big-ish rectangular hall is always problematic, especially when you have six artists with a big film on one end wall with incredible sound, and two other sounds pieces, as well as two films with sound in an ante room. I might wear ear plugs tonight.
Jens and I have silent work. Cardboard and paper (photographs). I would have liked light, but I couldn’t get slides done in time for the projection idea. Not sure I could afford them either. I saw an exhibition in Salzburg which had medium format slides, oh how I envied those… the projector looked extremely expensive however.
Anyway, it is difficult when everyone wants their work shown to its best, but this show hardly ended up being diplomatic – it was pretty much first come first served in the end. Holger did say that the next exhibitions would concentrate on two or three artists who were at the end of their residencies, which seems to make more sense and will be infinitely more manageable.
Perhaps I am too quick to compromise, I don’t know. But I find it bizarre when artists are all in this situation together and still won’t compromise. I see both sides I suppose, but I find confrontation difficult and as the space is not ideal for anyone, compromise seems inevitable. Should I be a bit harder I wonder?
