yesterday was the first day of the next residency. and i've gone from being a catalyst start-up person to a fully fledged artist-in-resident, 2.5 years after the first conversations with carla about the possibility of having art in the underground.
the first couple of days have been quite exhausting - we moved the actual studio space from our original space in The Cage to Phil's old studio, in the main bank of workshop spaces. It feels good and i feel pretty lucky to be the first one in that space.
i've given myself this first week as 'orientation week'. i've moved the studio, met with quite a few people, reconnected to the CHEAC peeps, who all know me reasonably well by now and have started to put down ideas.
i've had some good conversations with laine, from the winter residency, touching on some of the wider issues of the residency and making work in a community setting, and have planned two important things for next week: afternoon tea with ben and craig, and a skip run. these feel like important ground-laying things and a good preparation for 3 months of hard work.
tomorrow (wednesday) i'll be meeting with kieran stewart, an artist and sound/tech guy who is going to hopefully advise me on how to go about my super-ambitious task of turning the underground car park into an instrument and/or amplifier. it's pretty exciting.
and the other project i'll be working on is my listening projects, a regular feature of my practice. i'll likely start those next week - after o-week and giving the department of housing some notice.
i'm looking forward to having the studio for 3 months and to work solidly on a variety of works about sound in public.
i'll also be updating this and she sees red fairly frequently.
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