Dear Monte Carlo,
This past weekend 75% of our little collective was fortunate enough to convene for several hours on a lovely Sunday afternoon. We ate shrimps, drank rose, and talked about art. Below is a re-cap of how we see the show coming together over our distances from one another:
1. Looking at the collages that Vanessa and Sio have been making, it is easy to see where their minds easily converge. I think that it would be a healthy exercise to begin passing around images to one another to make pairs or families of. Kind of make a game of it. As the images are filtered through each of us, a broader picture will come together of how we may curate these images in a way that the viewer can follow our odd logic. This idea gave me the idea to form some sort of loose narrative..
2. I'm not saying like a narrative from a movie, but I think it is helpful to think of the show as having a beginning middle and end. A place to build, a place to have a climax, and a place to end. However, not sure what the space looks like, or if we could have moveable walls, or whatever, so this might not be particularly feasible.
3. Back to #1. As I mentioned, since we are far apart, fabricating games that enable us to bounce ideas off of each other seems to be the agreed upon way to begin our collaboration. Since all of our work is so different, we think that every piece should be collaborative in some way. So in addition to playing picture association games, we can also play word games, because I would really love to have some beautiful vinyl text on the walls.
*At a local festival they had this amazing piece that was a vinyl lettered timeline in list form. It was made to look very weathered and old- and at first I thought it was- and next to every span of years was a beautiful statement. I will try to find a picture of this.
4. Collaboration ideas are as follows:
a. Credits, hallway of projected credits with insightful language in lieu of names
b. wall of collage/ picture associations
c. videos of people orating their wills
d. Unicorn roadkill
5. The unicorn roadkill was an idea that sio had while in school. We were thinking that when it comes time to travel to CO, we will drive out together with the fallen unicorn and document it as we journey across america, to eventually have it in the show.
So Park, since we haven't heard from ya, let us know if we are thinking along the same lines or if we are totally off base from you, or any ideas that you have cooped up in that little head of yours!
Love,
Kate
