Ramblings..

Collaberation via the odd text and a breathless telephone call on the odd occaision is deeply limited. However, we have both got this far.

Today I heard this was the end of the work??? I had thought tomorrow.

Visiting the NPG as part of its Lates season made me think again about audiences, much of my paid work has been about access to arts and film, who comes in who can use the medium and issues around distribution.

I was an accessible product but I dont feel that an accessible, traditional model of narrative is it.
Multiscreen for space, giving profile to art? past and present relationship of artists - one is paid another does not want money in the equation.

Some notes which I picked out: From FREE handout you can pick up as entering TATE gallery space.

BURKE & Norfolk - Photographs from the war in afghanistan
My initial reaction was too pretty... in his explanatory piece about his work, its not about the medium but use of it and beauty is a tactic to draw people in???!.. people are 'tricked into engaging.. seduced"

Simon On JBurke
"Imperialism is what interests me more than anything. ... I immediately saw a cycle of imperial history right there.

"burke is a more complete photogprher ... no formal visual training" "felt I needed to go to afghanistan to walk in his shoes"

TATE FILM - Pere Portabella

page 3 - Both political and matieralist avant garde of the 1970's and 1980's. ..interroagates the indexical bond between image and ferent; his use of structural materialist devices to loosen this bond serves to focus the vieewier attention on thier role in the political and cultural processes of the circulation of meaning."

Relationship between Pere Portabella and Joan Miro makred by the political commitment that both creators sought through asestic rather than directly political rebellion"

Me - watching I feel better here and I feel worse int he TATE modern.. mooving imae. more art than traditional work. use process to deepen understanding of work and style and why that is different. we constructed this.

PG 7 - 'you cant understand liberation if you dont begin to understand yourself'