Mailed off our Multi-Arts Project Grant yesterday afternoon to support our (hopefully) upcoming residency and conference on collaboration and social practice, titled HOMEWORK: Infrastructures and Collaboration in Social Practices. It’s not until August 2011, but we should know if it’s a go or not by March, at which point we’ll be asking you to join us.
From way away in Toronto, Cristina sends edits through the magic of Tracking Changes after some good old fashioned hand-written editing. I did the same while waiting for the flight back to Detroit.
We’re getting so excited about this project, we’ll have to figure out a way to pull it off … funding or no funding.
Before I get to any recap on the Creative Time Summit, I thought I’d post this — a Wordle assembled from the grant we’re working through right now for another residency/conference in August 2011.
This might be helpful in finalizing a title. Due date is Friday, but it’s moving along.
We had another great Friday night meeting, even though Josh was sick, and even though we underestimated two things. First, we struggled again thinking through this second residency/conference idea, and the letters took way longer than anticipated to papier mâché.
At any rate, with the autumn weather firmly setting in, it’s looking like we’ll be heading out with these letters with toques and mittens!!!
Continue reading “Getting Closer Every Week: Big Letters and New Titles”
This week’s meeting started off kind of slow. A long week had us collectively feeling strapped for good ideas, but we had a specific task list in front of us. Looking at the calendar, an idea we had talked about not all that long ago, suddenly has a pressing deadline.
We’re looking to put together another residency of sorts. This time, it’s going to be shorter, but more collaborative. Everyone who comes will have the chance to work with everyone else on a project that we sort out all together. The residency will be 5 days long, and then there will be a 2-day conference at the end of the residency where we’ll talk about everything that happened and more. There will be a couple of keynotes at the conference too.
To be able to pull off this conference though, we’ll need to write another grant. The deadline that we have to hit is October 15, hence the pressing deadline.
Last night Justin, Danielle and I headed over to the Magic Stick to take part in the We Like Music Festival.
As Michelle mentioned last week, we’re doing a projection inside of The Magic Stick as part of the We Like Music Festival in Detroit this Saturday, September 18.
The organizers of We Like Music invited us to do something — so, we figured we would come up with a great big list of things we love about Detroit and then open it up to additions and have that list projected, line by line, onto the inside of th Magic Stick. We’ll be adding to that list in real-time that night using the magic of Twitter.
There’s a ton of amazing music and we’re truly lucky to be able to work alongside the other visual artists lined up for the evening. It’s going to be fun. See you there!!!
To get tickets, check out http://www.welikemusicfestival.com/tickets/
In preparation for our upcoming contribution to the We Like Music Festival happening at The Magic Stick in Detroit, we are brainstorming a running list of reasons why we like Detroit. This blog post will be the spot where we can bounce ideas back and fourth through comments to use in our projection of text on Saturday, September 18th.
Let me get things started here.
Reasons why we like Detroit:
-The monorail is only 50 cents
-Windsor gets to enjoy a gorgeous skyline
-Mexican Town monday nights Canadian money at par
-St. Andrew’s Hall
-The Magestic
-Red Wings fans
-Faintly hearing festivals at Hart Plaza from the Windsor riverfront
-Russell Industrial Centre
-Guerrilla Gardening
-Constant inspiration
-Windsor doesn’t seem like such a bad place in comparison
Let’s hear it dudes!
We met tonight and we’re feeling good. It was a long summer, but we know what we want to do in the coming months. It’s going to be really, really great.
And really, how could it not be? These letters are looking so good so far!!!
So much more soon.
It was just Rosina and I on Wednesday night, but we didn’t let that stop us from starting some new work! I remember when I first posted / talked about the Imaginary Platform, Rosina had seemed keen on figuring out a way to distribute it. So, that’s how we spent the evening, working through ideas for sending out the Imaginary Platform to people who should read it.
Continue reading “Oversized Envelopes: Working on Distributing an Imaginary Platform”