The coming week

This week I begin to film my presence on the screen.
Having run through the films so far, I am getting the feeling I should play a lesser role and let the interviewees present the narrative for me.
My script will involve me as the anchor between the interviews, steering the narrative direction and setting up the phases of the film, the characters from the archive and introducing the material from the archive.

Interviews

Two more great and very interesting interviews this week.
Many thanks to Robin Rimbaud and David Toop.

Interviews

Two more successful interviews conducted today. Huge thanks to DJ Sugar Lips and The Right Honourable Mercedes Sutherland-Nash.

Interviews

All interviews now set up. 2 tomorrow and 2 more on Wednesday.
That keeps me on schedule for having the interviews completed in September.
Now I need to get the direct-to-camera pieces composed.

Interviews

David Toop and Scanner confirmed for recording their interviews next Wednesday, the 26th.

Posters

Still not really settled regarding these. Considering how important it is, its all getting pretty late in the day. Rather than be bold, I think it best for me to chose a topic I already have knowledge of.

Totorial

My tutorial went well this week. Heading in the right direction it seems and with the support of JW. He gave me a few tips and ideas.
It is still a mess regarding the final show with nobody actually committing to a definitive answer about where and what we can actually do it, but that's to be expected from LCC.
I'm not waiting for the bureaucracy to lumber into gear and tell me at the last minute, and as Mark Jackson said my archive would not fit into the gallery anyway, I'm trying to find a small space where I can exhibit it off campus.

Ray Russell / Spike Wilson

To get an idea of what might have been, do check out this blistering Ray Russell album on which Spike was due to play....

http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-ica-retrospective-mw0000057830

Interviews

Thanks a-plenty to Dusty Rutherford, Electra Fortune and Ray Russell for their insightful help this weekend. Some amazing information about the Albion Accord.

Show details

After months of uncertainty, we finally received the news we were to have our final show in the old nursery. Of course, it was locked so we couldn't see it.
I got the feeling from the presentations that we were all going to have to seriously reign-in our ambitions. The new gallery is smaller than the previous one, and we are all, naturally, ambitious.
I'm going to have to think hard about this. The final show is not really about having an exhibition, it sounds like it should be, but it ain't really. It's about cooperation, compromise, loop-jumping, keeping quiet and fitting in.
I may pursue Mark Jackson's idea about presenting all the archive elsewhere and making it, I suppose more enigmatic.
Not really sure even about the performance aspect.
A bit of a dulling day, one way and another.

Dates and planning

Have now got a schedule for the work. A hand-drawn calendar for September and October is helping a lot.
Most of the interviews are confirmed with a couple of dates to be cemented.
My supervisor is John Wynne which is good news.
I have much of my tool kit here now for the craft side of the installation.
The Phase 3 brief was given today. Straightforward enough.
The poster side of things is niggling me a bit, but some of that was cleared up today. I need to have a clear idea about its content in 2 weeks.