All circumstances are telling me that I should be having a hefty panic attack. Why then am I spending a whole day relaxed, cooking, blogging and making sure that the subtitles on a work form year ago are ok? Tell me that? Self denial, I tell you!
Finished modeling the relieifs last night. A dozen. Great number, great word dozen is!Individual Utopias is a project based on over-interpretation - if there is such a thing!
The project consists of:
Testimonials: Marija (Mostar), Asja (Sarajevo), Doctor (Mostar), Nurse (Mostar), Sandra (Banja Luka), Anna (her text scrooling on video), a patient (Mostar)
summary: the above stated are telling their version of the events of workshop in Mostar 2007 on video
status: unfinished, not even started to be organized, need to borrow /rent camera, travel to stated cities, needs to be filmed, edited and mastered for DVD
Book : 2 books cca 80p. each, bound in a box, ed 500signed n numbered
Summary: the script for the audio drama/performance Individual Utopias illustrated with the characters drawn portraits, based on the actual workshop participants photos
status: all materials finished, at designers (not answering my email), still waiting for impressum from CC (not answering my email), needs to be proofed and paid for
Reliefs: 12 scenes, ed 3
summary: 12 scenes based on photographs taken during workshop process, forming an alternative narrative, thru a comic book like sequence of scenes, baked terracotta
status: clay modeling finished, needs to be cast into negative and then again to positive, needs to dry and bake and be paid for (hope sugar daddy or sugar gallery sponsors) and transported, big chance of breaking
Drawings: 28 portraits, for now originals, in future, fine art print, ed 3
summary: pencil drawings based on workshop participant photos, correspond to the number of characters in the script, serve as illustrations in the book, I intend to give the portraited individuals their portraits.
status: drawn, already in Zagreb, need to be framed (hope sugar daddy or sugar gallery sponsors)
Audio drama/performance: 30 min involving Vuneny
summary: a subjective parodized account of Art and Survival workshop in Mostar, October 2007. Meant to be performed live and then documented to be a video piece. Already performed once. Will be performed live during the opening
status: need to translate recorded parts into Bosnian, recording voice bits in studio, rehearsing with guys Bosnian version (English version finished), needs to be performed once for camera under controlled conditions, light, sound, needs to be edited and mastered for DVD, organise the perfomance
And with a glorious less than a month till the opening to go, a panic attack is bound to come. Today was spent doing nothing. Well I did upload my portofolio, for all to see and have. I really don’t have time to go down to the post office to mail stuff out. Why did my fn assistant have to go get married? Honeymooning while I am in a rut! Tell me should I painc? (not to mention I have also to go to Zagreb, see Hot Chip live, meet the boyfriend and VJ for Vuneny and make 6 illustraions for a facebook app in the meantime and mail out documentation) Time is merciful!
And while I never thought I would be saying this, the scope of the Individual Utopias show is making me scream: I need a curator!
