Parking the words

Watching ‘Can you dance’ with all its glitzy lights, ohh la la, carnival and cheese atmosphere, but still warmth for those who want to show themselves and their possibility. I wondered whether the largest amount of people who came into the DAG last time did so because it was a tad gaudy? (As what’s her name said, ‘an assault on your senses’? It was lots of colour lights, partly cos I didn’t know how to make them just white… and 3 projected screens plus 3 Imacs with still and moving image, moving from one element to another.

Not so understated it feels distant and unlinked or that its prenioius so ‘cerebral’ as Sophie calls me, that there is abstraction within and around it. Can’t touch it, as I can’t see it. (Feeling something of a breeze as I sit on the Downs in hardly clothes in the shade. It’s where there was a free space. I’ll move soon ‘cos I need, want to be warm but outdoors. It’s April and it’s lovely, it’ll be lovely for so long…

OH audience engagement. Flyers and conversations – this is a gallery – where will be if cuts continue? What is its future? AHRC ..Come in before its gone… stolen away again before we really every got it. Even if you think galleries are for them, whoever they are? (The Bourg..)

Our fees, some central government and a Hodge podge of other stuff fund this but ultimately by US! The new undergrad fees will be £8.5k….at LSBU and MA fees? No idea, they are already costly, especially those without virtually any contact time.

NEED TO DO?

1. Basic Flyer

2. More details as to why am I doing this
Evaluation or sign up sheet? Comments?

Oh I love writing and thinking and working out plans with this. You never know, I never know, what do I need to say or show…

· Rough CUT

· Cutaways

· Possible additions

· Students

· TUSC candidates

· Kingsley Abrahams?

· Dave Sinc and photographs

· KM – How you see life now? Biggest let down labour, Under 25 and skirt.

I want to show you how far we’ve come. And how far we have to go.. (Like I know? Like I can really see that?) It’s only a step in, touching upon so much that has happened, just touching but at the same time they gave us that. What else we need to have within it… young people, participation, housing and Lyn, …

Perhaps add the international and women’s element from KM? Or does it feel so flippant? But its light, with layers of what oppression looks like and how people are seen? And that’s important. I can’t tell you the whole story of the 47 but touch upon it and a little about those involved and what they did, how they did it, and wheat they mean to how they are how and live their lives.

I’ll have feedback for Lisa and me and that can be added by 5^th May and then something more by the week of the 16^th MAY. (CHECK ROXY??)

If I show it, even rough-cut version 2 into an academic space what happens…if I put it into an arty space like the Roy what happens? But it will always be a private screening… invited guests only. Already sets the tone I guess? Cllrs? RMT?

This seems like a long time ago but its so not. WAPPING – Marx exhibition (be good to go as a union group? _ link to mayday or another event. That just depends. (Weird when people decide to walk so close by where they have the whole park to wonder… nosey what is she writing, why? Why now? Why here?

In the cold shade, with no virtually no clothes on, she’ll move, but it’s been productive and I’m not scared by what I have to do… alone…or in association with others.

I’ll find a warm spot and sit in the sun, read and maybe call Tina & Karen. It’s nice to chatter. And I have taken my thoughts, my circular worlds down to take me somewhere else. I so need you words; I so needed to be here and there in my everyday writing you for me…. And it lifts and centres me (really am I going to put this shit in my blog… oh god, you do show yourself up?)