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its a closer count down than what i first thought - my computer died - so had to go to wollongong to get it fixed - now i have a new OH so quiet power supply in it and dad very very kindly lent me his laptop to use which is great so now i can do all my file uploads, renaming etc in front of the tv which makes it so much more palatable. have almost finished my 10 drawings (hopefully all done by the end of the week) so then they will be off to the printers etc, need to start on my theory too- - as a typical art student i've left everything to the last minute. auugghh

DEADLINE!

have set a dead line for myself and also for the people helping me out - 30th of this month - which is both liberating and very very scary as the educational year is almost at the end. My computer died when i was away and so working on a little laptop which isnt the best for photo editing etc etc etc. have about 30 people who have participated. t think that i have been on task with taking my photos everyday but will have to wait till i get my computer back to upload everything and to get my book published !

eeeppp off to school .

Marta Rosler - the bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems 1975

Martha Rosler’s, “The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems” (1974-5) introduces the Museum’s approach to “neighborhood” and contextualizes artists’ significant engagement with the area. The work offers a poetic, humorous, even elegaic interrogation of the concept of the Bowery as urban blight. Refusing the style of documentary or journalistic portraiture often used to personify poverty through the degraded human subject, Rosler concentrates instead on the evidence of an absence: empty liquor bottles and assorted detritus that suggest alcohol infused vagrancy and mark the passage of time. Juxtaposing these images with lists of synonyms for drunkenness or drunks and the words “dead soldiers, dead marines,” the work amplifies the void of representation while alluding to the unknowable path traversed by the so-called “Bowery bum.”

I love this idea of the evidence of an absence !!

after the cruise

back on dry land and it still feels like i'm on the boat.

Since i have been back i've been badgering people to submit and upload their synchronized travel photos - its working - - - slowly.

have given a deadline and a prize as intensive which might speed people along.

First day back and i forgot my pencil case - was a blessing in disguise as i ended up doing all the bit's n pieces that are dull like gridding up my paper, doing the photocopies etc etc etc.

Through doing some of my theory research was reading a collection of essays or chapters i guess called "the return of the real" by hal foster - there was a chapter in it discussing the artist as ethnographer which contained some interesting artists -

Silvia Kolbowski - Enlarged from the catalogue - feb 1990

http://www.silviakolbowski.com/projectDetail.cfm?id=18

The link to that boltanski info: http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=ShowArtist&eid=21&id=247&c=

final scanned drawing:

oohhhhho

So still looking at how things are going to all fit together - got some shelving units from bunnings (only $22 each so not a huge waste if they are not used) and have started stacking the boxes up on them, they are all covered in brown paper - but different types of brown paper. I looked at archiving systems and they seemed too sterile for what i wanted to archive. Found this work by boltanski - Archives of the Carnegie International, 1896-1991 (1991)

MAIL ART

Have compleated three of the 10 drawings that I want to do - there are actually 5 on the go but i think the first two are beyond redemption so will redo it. I'm going to take these and scan them then print them out onto card, cut them up into post card size address them to myself and then put them in an envelope and send them to people.

They will already have the postage on them and I'll invite people to do something to them - write me a note, colour it in, stick a sticker on it, cur a hole in it and then send back to me.