It’s been a busy couple of weeks with various projects progressing – lots of meetings, events and communications going on, andin the middle of it, the death of my laptop (r.i.p G4 ibook) so I haven’t had much time or opportunity to post for a while. I’ve found I’ve missed it – blogging here helps me organise my thoughts, reflect on my work and the process of writing always offers some new insight. Now feels like an exciting time, but also a little overwelming with all the ideas and projects and conversations… I feel like I need some time to reflect, take stock of all these different activities and try to find the connections between them. Some time for thinking, and space to consider methodology, and the direction and focus of my practice.
I’m going to try to post here this week on each of my projects to aid this reflective process.
So to start with, the collaborative blog is now up and running. It officially launched on March 1st and has six posts already which I am delighted about. I called it “Wur blog”. “Wur” in Scots means two things: “we are” and “our”. I had been struggling to find a name for the blog, and one day reading Eisenstein’s ‘Sacred Economics’ came across a discussion of WIR, the Swizz complementary currency system. A WIR/WUR rhyme took hold of my brain -since my Nana’s death Scots words are constantly lodging themselves in my head. The word seems a good fit – communicating the sense of collectivity, community and shared ownership that I would like all contributors to the blog to feel. I’m delighted to have almost 20 people as authors on the blog- who are a cross of artists and non-artists, with varying approaches and ideas to and about gift and reciprocity. It’s so exciting to have different voices (including a-n bloggers Kate Murdoch, Alinah Azedeh, Louise Atkinson Lee Gascoyne and Stuart Mayes) and to have the opportunity to bring these together in conversation. Already, just a few weeks into the blog, this is already happening. This is working just as I wanted it to- a democratic open sharing of ideas – I think of it as co-research. Please join the conversation! The blog can be found at http://wurblog.wordpress.com
