Saturday, 5th
May 2012
Notes.
time.
Protest
& Art? ADDLED.
changeable.
Guidelines - - I’m
not pretending to be homeless
-
I’m always myself
- If I blog about a meeting with
someone, I send it to then before I publish it.
Trying to
clarify my intentions
what
am I doing?
a song for reading…
emptying the house
of excess stuff.
Letting go Listening
to the soul of the world…
We MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY is the point.
Practice staying in the love
being back in the love
although it
continues changeable
showers.
Light
I’m
waiting on the moon to appear
It’s
7.32pm & still
bright.
what’ll it
be
like in September?
baths
“Associative
memory”
Today
I remembered that I
walked
over a mountain
and
thought if I did it once,
I
can do it again
Moments of panic
My
house donativo.
physical
fitness readiness
Feet
& sore knee tonic
The Evidence Locker –
Jill Magid (2004) Liverpool
A friend of mine suggested I take a look at this project and
it also came up in conversation in Annaghmakerrig with Florian. When I went looking on the website, the
artist Jill Magid has created a system where you have to sign up to receive the
daily letters that she wrote to City Watch each day. I signed up to receive them hourly on 15th April 2012, and received
31 letters with access to the daily videos from City Watch. I went through them all today. It’s a fascinating project and one that
evolves in unexpected ways, I was initially most interested in how the artist
was reporting back on her daily activities and how she communicated that
through her letters, the various degree of detail of her housing, her walks
through the city and her interactions with the watchers, as well as her
interactions with people in her life unfolding throughout the project and what
she writes about, the personal detail, the awareness of her physicality and her
place in the city, and the beautiful poetic lines that intersperse the letters.
Letter 1. physical
appearance + video
2. describing
small details “mostly tin and gold”
9.40 – 10.12pm
Mystery: [The
letter in my back pocket]
3.
4.
5. [Record
of the city on that day]
The
relationship between her and him (watching)
how
close they can get (the cameras and those operating them)
angles
6. [Internal
– external] Access
Goddard
& Film Noir – following
‘Le
Mèpris’
7.
8. -smells. internal monologue & external journey
personal
– pregnancy test
9. cigarettes
“he carries his own space with him”
10. dreams.
relationship developing.
11. time
frames. eating.
12. period.
13. Blond
wig – disguise/character – red coat. visibility
hates
the wig then.
14. Bad
day
15. “In
the room that sees the city”
“I
relate myself to the city by how you frame me in it” bag robbed
16. Map.
17.
18. Personal
life
19. white
gloves – costume. sadness felt
film
changes style: graveyard
fascinating
and boring simultaneously
20. windows
– seeing [bearing witness]
“Like
watching a movie”
she’s
beautiful
21. acutely aware of her
physicality, shadow cast, details picked up by camera “it would be nicer if
they were white” – shoes
hotel window
22. white gloves white shoes red
coat
23. sleep deprivation
“Then, for you, it’s
always silent – your city without noise”
videos become more
collaborative/planned together. ear piece
filmic staged
[Physicality-movement-obscure?
out
of sync?]
24. eyes shut, he walks her
around the city…
her life unfolding and
developing throughout the project
How do the people in her
life feel about it?
film: trying to write
the letter, camera (he) tries to read it.
#2: sound for the first
time – weird! His voice only
#3: leading her blind
25. their relationship unfolding
his and hers – the biker code!
26. “Every public clock in this
city admits a different time”.
“I felt like
being alone and I also felt lonely”.
27. she gets on with her life,
but this is her life too for those
days…
28. Her birthday
film:
running
29. “There I am.
Saved.”
film-
static
30. “snow changes the city”
“At the office on Maryland
Street I was asked
when my mask will come
off. I don’t think I’m wearing one.”
sad it’s
nearly over, the last letter, the last videos…
#2 film: like a drama
trust exercise, let your partner lead you around the space, while you close
your eyes & keep them closed. no
sound this time.
31. “This is my epilogue”
Bike ride
“I felt the calmest, the
lightest and the dreamiest I
have felt in a long
time.”
“We talked about
bubbles.”
film: bike ride!
Last letter
#31 but in the Evidence Locker there’s a single space after as if there is one
more to receive, I hope so, I looked back to the prologue letter to see if
there’s any mention of this. There isn’t.
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