29 April 2008

berlin show - painting + printing

the paint is on...


the printer is on...



all night long... (literally)



berlin show - building screening rooms




the first sreening room is coming together...
and where the S R I P U R A M
image in light box will appear...
the second screening room is on the other side of the box,
entrance, facing the other way.




so...walk around to the back of the room... and you'll find
the second screening room... where

S P E A K I N G T H R O U G H W A T E R
is being show.

18 April 2008

12 days to go - berlin solo show

the studio in the day...
this has been my home + work place since july last year





and this is where most of the work for the show is taking place



studio last night around midnight... after miriam http://www.dymproducts.com
had spent a few hours going over ideas of how to present certain works...



the book with lots of text - these texts will become texts for the show and the catalogue... texts can be written in the studio, on the park bench outside or one of my two favourite cafe's down the road.




this photo is from the trip to vietnam - in december (nepalm bomb shell to the right + a cham headless statue)... this work is looking at the importance of taking care of cultural heritage and memory...

am still tossing with two different ideas of how to present these photos and text (video the notebooks? display the notebooks upright?)

17 April 2008

13 days to go - berlin solo show

The technicians started building up the exhibition yesterday ...


there are five of them with drills, hammers, electric saws...




entrance to exhibition space



there are two video screening rooms being built for the show...

sort of crazy all the work that goes in ... and the show is only up for three weeks ... + then the wood gets dumped (most of the wood here has been recycled from the two previous shows... but still makes me cringe to see such waste after a show...) ... and the exhibition is talking about safeguarding the environment !!! aaahggg... wonder if cardboard designers - create ephemeral video rooms....


16 April 2008

14 days to go - invitation to berlin show -





A friend from Canada suggested I do a blog for the preparation of the show - as he was interested to know of the process of putting a show together ...

and from my perspective : my web of loved ones reaches way across the globe, and only a few of them will make it to Berlin while my solo show is up...





So one of today's tasks is to send of invites, snail mail.

Upstairs, in the admin part of the building, they are sending off 1100 (yes one thousand one hundred invitations around Germany)...




Here is the invitation image + the blurb about the show:

Latham´s long term series, s a f e g u a r d i n g raises awareness of the importance of the universal will and common concern of how we care for eachother, safeguard the environment and the cultural heritage of humanity.

The show is an accumulation of a work in progress...

The invitation image is a photo I took at Sripuram, the Sri Lakshmi Narayani temple which was inaugurated last year.

This place is a perfect example of s a f e g u a r d i n g as people, cultural heritage, and the environment are highly valued and taken very good care of.




14 days to go