For those of you who haven’t seen this already (and it has done the rounds, so you may well have) it isa minimum fee schedule from CARFAC.
http://www.carcc.ca/documents/PDFeng.pdf
Director, April Britski is working with a-n at the moment on secondment and also wrote this in the last issue:
Reflectons on the arts funding crisis
How brilliant to have the experience of someone who has been through it already.
I have been feeling a bit out of things recently, which is probably why this appeals so much! I have a habit of setting myself tasks that are just stupid. I decide to do something and then I make it as hard as it can be, just at the point between likely failure and almost possible. Then I am horrible to people close to me while I get incredibly stressed out. I blame it on my dad, for various reasons, but since he is no longer here to defend himself I shall just have to take responsibility for it and stop subjecting myself and others to it. I have worked in this pattern consistently since I was about 17, so stopping is harder than it looks from the outside. It is also a way of making sure I do acheive things and I’m not sure how to function otherwise, but I would like to calm down a bit generally.
August/September was supposed to be quiet time for the studio, but it hasn’t come out like that at all. It has even got to the point where I am feeling like the week in Wales coming up is going to get in the way of deadlines. IDIOT. Anyway, I am going through the obligatory -I-can’t-possible-do-this-it’s-going-to-be-shit phase of a project, so perhaps the holiday is actually at the perfect time. A bit of fresh perspective never did any harm.
I am really really looking forward to going to Milan in October and putting work up for Showreelproject.com. The interview with California-based curator Ciara Ennis is finished and will be in Mousse magazine in October – I think? She was really great to correspond with and her insight into my work was really unexpected and appreciated. I am working on eggitecture for that and it is taking a lot longer than I anticipated, but this is no bad thing, I am sick of quick fixes and it has been pretty calming to file away at minute architectures.I have found myself wondering if a day trip to the architectural biennale in Venice is possible though – there I go again! Why can’t I just enjoy Milan? DOH.
I am off to Cambridge on Friday for a research trip, so excited and intrigued about that. After holidays I have a week here:
http://www.thecooperative.info/
to work on Cardboard Folly (amazing work coming in for this!). I have invited various collaborators in to make things/discuss/give feedback really looking forward to some input and company in my work. Then I have been asked to do an exhibition that should be really exciting, although it’s not really confirmed yet, so I shall not jinx myself!
