We didn't have a lesson last week as it was a bank holiday; but we've had loads to do...of course!
The mind maps for the concepts for the Nailing down visions project. I took loads of notes and have come up with a few different ideas to explore. What to look at is the visual concepts that interest me and explore them with the view to having a piece and a statement at the outcome. I will put up the photo's asap; but I can't get them to load at the moment.
We have an extended deadline due to Tulca and due to the bank holiday...phew
This was the good news (extended deadline) the bad news was...another project! (surely there aren't enough hours in the day! -the workload is huge at the moment )
We had a talk from Joanna McGlynn who is the education coordinator with TULCA, she is an intern with them. TULCA is an art festival in Galway, running this year from 8-24 November.
I have volunteered to be an invigilator during TULCA, this basically just means keep an eye on the art installations in a particular venue, answer any questions if possible, report any problems and keep a tally of who visits. Joanna explained that it's the 11th year of the multi-venue festival. There are 47 artists taking part, there will be exhibitions, seminars, age related tours and talks.
For artists there is an open call for submissions in approx. August, the board and the curator choose the artists. The curator can also personally ask artists who haven't put in submissions.
The curator this year is Valerie Connor who is a photographer, the theme is 'Golden Mountain'.
The idea of the Golden Mountain is the idea of those imaginary mountains of gold, conjoured up during the 'gold rush'. There are no mountains of gold; but because we've imajined them they do exist and there lies a paradox.
There is a competition open to students to do a video response to TULCA.
So that was all very interesting and Joanne went off, lovely to hear from her...but then John broke the news of another project to do with TULCA...aaaah! more details to follow. We will all be visiting TULCA main gallery next Monday and Joanna will be meeting us and giving us a tour which will be great, I'm looking forward to that-one of my favourite things is viewing art in situ.
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