Glasgow Housing Association offices are closed today...moral of that story, action causes action. They were open yesterday, I would have more information now. Never mind
I called the landlord of the Hillhead bedsit, it has gone but he has another property on Radnor Street. I haven't made an appointment to see it as he is away this weekend when Mum and Dad said they would come. Perhaps they'll drive me over on Tuesday and I can check it out. Radnor street sounds nice, near the Art Galleries, probably a 20/30 minute walk from college.
The big issue website is exellent, and all their contact details are there. However, I'm going to wait untill I have firmed up my project action so that I can be clear how article space could be used to my advantage. Possible ideas might be to approach them with some sort of project diary or highlights from this blog which could take up a small amount of space. Or perhaps an appeal for answers to questions. Or one big article midway into the process articulating information about the project and findings (always a possibility of a follow up article too)
In other news, I found a link to Womanifesto on Kate Stannard's website. She was invited to participate in this year's online project No Man's Land, exploring ideas of virtual space and territory. This organisation is something I would like to keep tabs on. Varsha Nair is coordinating it out of Thailand and she was really approachable at the NRLA. Tejal Shah was also an invited artist! The website is http://www.womanifesto.com/en
Just remembered I missed the Squark deadline! Gotta keep my eyes open and consider where I'm going to be this time next year. My aim is two performances in Britain and one international. Think about the NRLA regional selectors, Merchant City Festival and definately adapting Garland for Iceland.
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This womanisfesto thing was also brought up by Kate in an early tutorial.
Is it enough to be exploring the same sorts of topics as all these other women, or should I be contacting them, keeping tabs on their work, feeding their ideas into my own to create hybridised ideas? It was really difficult to keep this broad spectrum of ideas close to a work which by nature had to be closed down and simplified. I do hope that I was able to suggest lots of different readings by creating images, texts and inferences which could be read by the individual.
Under the topic of no men's land an artist has posted, Anna Syczewska...there is a beautiful image of her in performance, feauturing a 'scottish' doll.http://www.womanifesto.com/en/webboardDetail.asp?topicID=116
Her website is beautiful
http://www.annasyczewska.art.pl/performances.html
Womanisfesto is about women occupying the web and in some ways taking back a male dominated area of life. This is something I can really buy into although the website can be difficult to understand or use...I guess this multi nationality, multi disciplinary nature of the work means that lots of people can contribute and therefore it is not being used for one purpose
Although I started with the ideas of domesticity, and my lack of it, the ideas outlined as the stimulus of womanifesto's recent project No Man’s Land are starting to provide some sort of definition for the area that I'm looking at.
Here is a bit of blurb from their website:
Consider this territorially imagined line – the border, its powers of inclusion and exclusion, and its ability to simultaneously promote both unity and conflict. Borders also contain/define/give rise to our sense of nationalism, and related historical and current cultural practices and narratives that are perpetuated in a variety of ways help to define ones sense of nation-hood and ownership.
Consider, also, the ‘no man’s land’ itself; it is at once, the in-between space of the border, the borderless scape of cyber space, and the place within us that cannot so easily be explained by the nationality on our passport. The no man’s land, in all its diversity is a relevant space that is the reality of many in the globalized world of today.
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