Off we go...
We're sitting in the studio of appartment E in Villa Waldberta, in a village called Feldafing, on the shore of Lake Starnberg. It's 9.07pm, and we just ate a great steak cooked on our funny electric hob.
It's been a fantastic start to the project - the days are disappearing so quickly! We've spent a bit of time with the other artists - Olivia, from Arls, just outside Marseille; Edgar, a Peruvian from Vienna; and Eva, a performance artist from Greece (via London). The final artist, Tomas from Prague, arrives tomorrow.
Language has been an adventure - Olivia was very pleased to find Eleanor speaks great french as she has little English, Edgar speaks about 10 languages and Eva is pretty multi-ligual too, although no French so her and Olivia kind of wave at each other a lot. I speak GCSE French and German, so I'm getting quite confused, although people seem to like it when I spontaneously shout words I've suddenly remembered.
The house is amazing, absolutely beautiful. J + H, you need to tell us how much you want to know! It will be interesting to see how much we give away and how much you will want to know before you come! It took us over an hour to find the shop on the first morning and it's actually only ten minutes away!
We went for a walk by the lake today and started talking about our work, and yesterday I bought the perfect stapler for making artist's books. We're both thinking about animals a lot. There's an owl in the garden of the house that you can hear at night.
Ask us questions!
S+E
We're sitting in the studio of appartment E in Villa Waldberta, in a village called Feldafing, on the shore of Lake Starnberg. It's 9.07pm, and we just ate a great steak cooked on our funny electric hob.
It's been a fantastic start to the project - the days are disappearing so quickly! We've spent a bit of time with the other artists - Olivia, from Arls, just outside Marseille; Edgar, a Peruvian from Vienna; and Eva, a performance artist from Greece (via London). The final artist, Tomas from Prague, arrives tomorrow.
Language has been an adventure - Olivia was very pleased to find Eleanor speaks great french as she has little English, Edgar speaks about 10 languages and Eva is pretty multi-ligual too, although no French so her and Olivia kind of wave at each other a lot. I speak GCSE French and German, so I'm getting quite confused, although people seem to like it when I spontaneously shout words I've suddenly remembered.
The house is amazing, absolutely beautiful. J + H, you need to tell us how much you want to know! It will be interesting to see how much we give away and how much you will want to know before you come! It took us over an hour to find the shop on the first morning and it's actually only ten minutes away!
We went for a walk by the lake today and started talking about our work, and yesterday I bought the perfect stapler for making artist's books. We're both thinking about animals a lot. There's an owl in the garden of the house that you can hear at night.
Ask us questions!
S+E
2 comments:
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Hi guys, congratulations on reaching your destination. Sorry it's taken me a few days to join you espacially, had to navigate around the 0s and 1s to dig out my old google account password.
It seems that no matter where we travel to and from, we can't escape the one sky enveloping us all, and with it the elements that can bring the world to a stand still. We only have to think about tsunami or even events as far and as close to home as 9/11. A man was killed in central Liverpool when a crane fell onto the building it was constructing... Liverpool city centre crane collapse, 15 January 2007
"At approximately 16:10 on Monday 15 January 2007 on a David McClean Ltd construction site at Colquitt Street, Liverpool city centre, a JASO J138PA Luffing jib crane on hire from Falcon Crane Hire Ltd collapsed.
As a result of the incident one person was tragically killed and the driver of the crane was seriously injured."
from here intertwining can be seen as the overarching connectivity between events as well as locations. The fabric of society interlaced by basic human desire for advancement versus invisible forces.
I like the idea of the birds and migration Sean, and Ele- the criss crossing of languages is something I can't wait to experience. When I was in China, it proved to be more frustrating than anything!
ok, so some very practical questions re the villa-
what should i bring materials wise- do you think you have brought enough?!
ele- are there editing facilities on the computers (is there FCpro?)
are the others looking to work collboratively?
what is the room situation?
was it easy to get to the villa- how far aways is it?
how did you get involved with the workshops so soon?
have you been out and about in Munich yet?
Oh- and what was the update with the meeting with Ian?
thanks
xxx
January 19, 2007 2:59 PM
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