A current project is ‘Parallèlement à l’intérieur (au-dessus de)’, an explorative run-through of work with another artist, Jennie Picken, that will culminate in a show in Glasgow in 2012, along with a partnering show in Amsterdam.
The plan of action was to post physical elements of work to one another, myself being in Edinburgh and Jennie being in Amsterdam. However – as much as the project is about notions of communication and distribution to muster an overall idea of what the final shows will be (and to define the content of them) – snail mail has failed us: an original drawing and set of photographs have now been lost somewhere between Scotland and The Netherlands via Airmail.
Perhaps I wrote the wrong address down – or perhaps Jennie’s mail box is not big enough for a square package to fit through: but the result is we are now looking at alternative methods of sharing these ideas via email. And we are looking at the material of email and the possibilities of this in order to develop a language that progresses the project without giving too much away.
So we now progress with the project using Skype to catch up with one another and to discuss developments. We are also waiting for certain ‘terms and conditions’ to not be ’embargoed’ – so we can distribute ourselves freely. For now, our project and its whereabouts – somewhere in between here and there above the sea – remains deliberately embargoed too…
