Mill:24 26.00-21.45

I went to Mill:24 exhibition on Saturday and it took at least an hour to eventually locate the building. I got off the train at Victoria Station and walked around the Oxford Road Train Station thinking that it was there [ for some inexplicable reason ]. I should have got off the damned train at Salford Central and after remembering the map that was in my mind, I caught a taxi to the venue, it was only a few pound to get there. Being lost did open up some creativity and a new project is set, this one WILL be finished, onest. I took black and white Polaroids of the connections above the tramlines in Manchester's town centre. They look eerie and spidery against the sepia skies.

The exhibition was a little, shall I say, a bit tumbleweedie...maybe I turned up a little early...it did eventually fill up a bit later on. I took Polaroids and Digital photographs and they are on POLANOID and FACEBOOK respectivly.

Marcin turned up and it was good to a face that I knew, I'd rather go to place like this on my lonesome or with a few people guys...gives me the opportunity to escape and explore without any baggage around my ankles. There was a frequency modulator/visual display which was fully interactive and that's where I met up with MCW.

After having a mooch about the [Islington] Mill environs and taking said photographs, I got a little bored and decided to go on my way but after walking around the street, I found a Chip Shop. A bag of chips was procured and I went back into the Mill and around to the open area/cafe place at the back of the venue and munchywunched my tea. I saw a guy giving a speech about the Holy Trinity of children's TV artists. It was pretty interesting and kooky and gave me the opportunity to stick around for a bit.

I bumped into some girl from the second year of my Interactive Arts course and she invited me to be part of her performance which is under the umbrella title of Action Cover Party. Its a group of artist from Tenerife who [cover] famous performance arts from the sixties-eighties. My performance that I was taking part of was called TIME and required me to stand and count 60 seconds whilst not moving, there were eleven of us doing this and I thought it was fun.

I saw other Interactivists doing their thang and one that stood out was the Steve Reich-Pendelum Music. This was two microphones swinging above two guitar amps and creating static and feedback, beautiful. Rebecca Horn's cutting hair with two scissors, Gilbert George, Yoko Ono and Joseph Beuys had their airing. I was part of Orlan's Kiss of The Artist where I had the order of 'speak Italian' played out to me and I made the order of 'ruffle'.

Whilst all this was going on, some chaps in the other part of the floor where playing out their Torquemada pushing a tea-ladies trolley around in a circle for ten minutes, routine. I found THAT really interesting and some people didn't really understand the concept but I got it kind of quickly. The head torturer for the Spanish Inquistion relieving participents with a hot beverage.

Runa and Arnie turned up around late o'clock but I didn't get the chance to really talk with them because my train was turning up and I don't really fancy wandering around Salford late into the night, even though, I should've stayed a while longer. A band was due on at 11pm called Bill Shatnerrr and I fancied watching them but I'd be stuck in Manchester then.

decrepit, burnt-out warehouse for future reference

spread thinly for economy

It's the time of year for exhibitions and end of the year shows and I am going to go to as much as I can. I need the contacts, see who is about and what they are doing.

There's the Mill24 24-hour exhibition that has performance art, installation, music, etc starting up tomorow and I really need to go to this one. It's basically a collection of artists from my Uni, Manchester School of Art, doing there many splintered thang and well, hopefully bump into others from my course.

Then at the weekend,I have a gig to go to on Friday and on Saturday, 8 day & Rogue Exhibition in Piccadilly featuring quite a lot of people and should keep a Saturday entertained...maybe invite Andrea [?].

The third years are having there exhibition on 18 June and I have invited myself to help at their shindig...I do NEED to do this because well, it'll be my turn very soon and I want to have a look at their work. It IS near my birthday and a nite in MCR is planned.

The second years have a one night only show at a unoccupied terraced house in the middle of [I don't know where-but is going to fid it] entitled, No5 Balmoral. There is a handful of them doing this and its is very site specific, something that really interests me and is where my work is taking me.

The thing is, I do really like this idea and if it isn't classed as plagarism, I want to explore further because I do know of certain people on my course who would hugely benefit doing this kind venue/exhibition. My light in particular would look fantastic in a small box-room/bedroom, in the dark with slats of lights and just with a humming-fridge-detuned TV/radio-static noise. The idea sends shivers to my solar-plexus as I think of it. Picture the scene, flaky plaster/paint, dampness, detrius on the flooring and a sense of foreboding...ooh-errr.

Hopefully, I'll be invited to the Blackburn degree show that incorporates the Foundation year, Graphic people and other degreey people. I can meet up with past comrades and have a good blether.

Beatherder is on early in July and with all the time me and Andrea are going to put in, we should be up and running to play one or two sets at the campsite. I've come up with some good music and she is writing and learning new words...re-imagining of old songs are required though.

bad photos of maquette

this is the proposed maquette for a sculpture that is based on the Scale project.

Visit to a Camera Club

Last night I visited Blackburn and District Camera Club to have a looksee at what they have got to offer. There was a meeting of sorts with other clubs around Blackburn and a inter club contest was the main attration. At first a photographer (digital collagist more like) was givng a lecture about his work and entering competitions aroud the world. His work comprised of lots of manipulations, editing and pieces of photographs mingled within each other. I didn't really like his work, I consider it cheating with all the jiggering and pokering that he does. Overseas judges are none the wiser with maniluated scenes but...it tends be tacky.

I went to their exhibition at the BBC Radio Lancashire building in the town centre and well... I do need to have interactions with other peolpe who consider themselves photographers and the like and the sociability factor may be advantageous to me and my work. I have left Uni and will need some focus during the months that I have off.

There was a guy I met who is from the Preston Camera Club and he and the Club are having a lecture by Leigh Preston at a place with a bar in July so I might make it there,

Overall, it was like going to Methodist meeting (they were only about 4-5 younger guys there) but it was alright I suppose. Next week is off so I'll go to the next one. I have three weeks to decide and then it is either pay £35 for the half year or take a hike. I have until 2 June to give a selection of portraits for a little competition the club is having.

elevation diagram of new construct based on [scale]

ne to chtoby masshtab-[not really to scale]
shkaly ne ryeal'no - [scale not really to]
veschanie iz niotkuda - [transmissions from nowhere]
nikuda peredachie ot - [nowhere transmissions from]

THE [ritz]