WanDerINg ROcKs, ReVoLVing DoORs

2004-07-28T19:34:00.000-07:00

although this may seem pretty obvious, WrRd has pulled the proverbial plug on the blog.

the archival version of the WrRd project website can be viewed by going to:

www.WrRd.org

hope you enjoyed the ride.

2004-06-03T08:31:00.000-07:00

The ReJoyce Festival has just set up a Bloomsday Information Booth on lower Grafton Street. Keep your eyes peeled for WrRd brochures, flyers, and stickers for the individual projects.

It's about to get CRAZY!!

2004-05-27T05:55:00.000-07:00

Bloomsday events take top page! Seanad, the National Irish Government, is meeting today with emergency legislation to amend copyright laws so that the National Library display of Joyce manuscripts can go forward. Check the front page Irish Times article out here. Comforting to know that we aren't the only ones facing the copyright hassle! Kind of...

2004-05-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

Mark these dates!

June 12th 6:30-8:30pm WrRd Launch Party - Temple Bar Gallery & Studio

June 14th 2pm-4pm "Ulysses: The Great Globaliser?" Round Table Discussion -
Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery

2004-05-21T01:53:00.000-07:00

News from Kathleen Quillian:

"By the way, I found a great website yesterday with a gazillion high-quality pictures of Dublin (some of them 180 degree composites) that we're (ITCP) using in conjunction with the map to figure out definite-maybe locations for projections. It's a huge help and you might think about letting the group know about it if they're not familiar with the city: http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/city/index.html."

News from Susan:

WrRd newsletter #2 is currently infiltrating your mailbox. Check it out and send it along to your friends.

2004-05-20T03:41:00.000-07:00

It's NEW, it's EASY TO REMEMBER!

www.WrRd.org

VISIT NOW AND VISIT OFTEN!!!

p.s. newsletter #2 will be in yr mailbox shortly. if you've been slow getting to the dinner table, you can still sign up for the
WrRd mailing list by sending an email to: wrrdup@newgroundcenter.org

2004-05-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

news flash - WrRd just got word that we have been awarded funding from Fractured Atlas to be directed towards the creation of the CD-Rom catalogue. a weekend hurrah is heard throughout Dublin. rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...susan

2004-04-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

apologies to ed and sarah of chateau deluxe - their website is actually www.chateaudeluxe.com. yes, my french really is that bad...

one application deadline down and one more to go.

- susan -

2004-04-17T16:34:00.000-07:00

Apologies for letting a few (!) days pass since last writing. Tonight I will be brief (if you can imagine that) and just direct your attention to a brief write up about my presentation this past Wednesday at DATA:18. If you scroll down you can finally complete your mental picture of this one. The presentation seemed very well received - there were about 40 people in attendance and no one threw rotten fruit. I essentially gave an overview of the event and then honed in on a handful of projects which I thought would most interest a techno-oriented crowd. A small handful of people, including the DATA organizers, approached me afterwards to express interest in helping out. Which is good news!

This upcoming week will be hectic as two grants need to go out by Friday. One is for a publications assistance award for the CD-ROM catalogue. If any one is interested in getting involved in this project, as an editor or writer, send word. I met today with the duo behind chateauxdeluxe.com who will be designing the interactive components and making the whole thing look pretty. Sarah and Ed - welcome aboard!

The Hugh Lane Gallery round table is a go! We have invited a handful of Dublin-based artists and curators to participate in the round table as well so it promises to be an invigorating debate on carrying Joyce into a contemporary context. Anyone who would like to participate is welcome to pose questions, directions for the discussion.

Ah, I have mentioned this to some of you but Temple Bar Properties has declined our proposal to use a number of their spaces, due to their own budget and timing restrictions. While this is disappointing, it is by no means insurmountable and may actually play to our favor as it will bring our projects into spaces atypical to public art.
More on that later...I promised to keep this brief.

Cheers,

La Susan

2004-04-05T05:47:00.000-07:00

Soooo...all moved in at Sculptor's Society. A bit of the odd duck sydrome - "Who is this girl??" - but nice to have a warm connected place to operate out of for the next time being. Indeed.

ACCOMODATION UPDATE

Some updates to the webpage. Most important to note is what I am calling the Artist B&B, essentially a new donation scheme where people can choose to sponsor one night's stay for an individual artist for only $30 or 25 EUROS a night. Part of the deal is that in commemoration of their donation, we will be sending digital photographs of the artists in their sponsored bed, dreaming their sponsored dreams. Here is an example:

If you have serious issues with this scheme, let me know. If you like it and would like to participate, it could be fun to put up pictures of each of you in your nightcaps with a little blurb on your sleeping preferences (ie lights on, with your favorite stuffed penguin, etc). I visited UCD accomodations on Friday and was told that the best deal they could cut us is 25 Euro a night per person. The apartments are 4 bedroom and include kitchen space and a communal living area. The campus is a 25 minute direct bus ride into the city centre. I will need to book the rooms (I am thinking 3 apartments total) by early May so do let me know if you are trying to arrange other accomodations.

Cheers,

Susan

2004-04-04T07:01:00.000-07:00

Sunday afternoon here in Dublin and the rain has just stopped (for the moment) so I hope to get out shortly for a bike ride before the clouds return. A few brief comments:

I really like Rachel’s comments on potential topics for the round table discussion. I am in the process of making a formal proposal to the Hugh Lane Gallery outlining the scope and flavour of the topics we would like to cover. Obviously this conversation about who is the public when we talk about this kind of public art event is essential. Incorporated into that conversation might be talk on how effective the different mediums are at reaching that public (once defined). There will also be an opportunity for those participating to describe their project with a bit more detail and will be a good P.R. opportunity to stimulate interest in your piece which will still be ongoing. The date I am proposing for the talk is June 14th between 5 and 6:30. Anyone who is interested in participating should let me know asap as well as contributing further topics.

As of tomorrow I will be packing up operations (well this consists essentially of my laptop, cell phone, and note books) and heading over to the offices of the Sculptor’s Society of Ireland in the City Centre. They have offered to let me run this WrRd show out of their offices for free which is a great treat. For those of you who don't know SSI is an information source for all things visual in and around Ireland. It is quite a boon to have their support - not to mention a stable working space.

Sophia Lycouris paid a surprise renegade visit from England this past Thursday and Friday to check out bridge sites along the River Liffey. We decided this is not cheating. It was nice to meet another member of this mad crew - adding a bit of tangibility to the whole scheme.

More to come but for now, bike rides...

Best Susan

2004-03-31T08:25:00.000-08:00

Hello all. Long overdue updates on the wonderful wild world of Dublin. I do hope you all are well in life and work – keeping your heads on tight and getting excited about the growing nearness of June. I’ll give you the quick run down (hoping to do this more often so do check in frequently – and please, respond!)

• Most of you should have heard from me over the last week about the site selection process. If you have, please do let me know what you think of my suggestions and send me any more specifics that you have available at this time (equipment needs, personnel needs, etc.) The better armed I am going into meetings with Dublin City Council, and Temple Bar Properties the more effective I can be in arguing our case.

• If I haven’t contacted you yet, it doesn’t mean I am not thinking of you! Look to hear from me again shortly. Today I posted an announcement in the Sculptors Society of Ireland for volunteers who will take up the task of securing spaces for those projects which tend to be more wandering in nature. If you have friends in Dublin, tell them we are looking for volunteers as well. Friends have friends have friends!

• In meeting with Temple Bar Properties about the various projection projects, it became apparent that, while they are interested in offering us various spaces, any video projection will have costs associated with it including hire fees for technicians and rental fees. Apparently their days as a free service are no longer. Sad – so if you are one of the people planning video projection, please take this into consideration. I am making contact with a number of multimedia groups here in Dublin to seek sponsorship but nothing has materialized yet.

• Today I met with Mia Lerm Hayes who is curating a 65 artist exhibition of Joyce inspired art work at the Royal Hibernian Gallery. She is incredibly excited about our project and even added a short blurb about our work in the book/catalogue they are producing as part of the show. The opening for that event is June 9th and several of the contemporary artists will be there, which is a great opportunity for any of you to meet these other crazy Joyce fanatics. You can get a partial list of the artists on the ReJoyce website www.rejoyce2004dublin.com

• As some of you know, last week I got the nasty surprise of copyright issues that the Joyce estate is pursuing with regards to all projects involved in the ReJoyce Festival. I am still sussing out the details but it does seem as though we have to be extremely careful not to include any direct quotes from the text. So PLEASE take a look at your projects and if you have any questions about potential problems, let’s address them now. Sorry to have sprung this on you all last minute – it was a big surprise to me as well.

• If anyone has any interest in helping design the brochure that will be used as a guide to the event, please let me know. I am hoping to include a simplified map of the city with the included site locations. The brochure really needs to happen asap so that we can get it to the printers before May 16th I would think. If you are interested, let me know and we can discuss design strategies, etc. Also if anyone is aware of any printers that would cut us a deal, that would be sweet.

• In sad news, Catriona Hardie had to remove herself from the role of contributing artist due to commission deadlines here in Dublin. But on the upbeat, she has agreed to continue on in an organizational role. This means we have one additional slot to fill all last minute. Worst case scenario I step up to bat but I am also checking out possibilities of bringing in artists through the 10 EU accession country embassies here in Dublin. So there may be new folks on board soon.

Okay that’s all. Quite a bit to report. Please check base either via the blog or drop me an email. I’d like to know where each of you is at with your project so I can plot next actions. Off to chase down that rainbow.

Best Susan

MORE TO COME SOON...LIKE AS IN SATURDAY...SO CHECK BACK IN NEXT WEEK!

2004-03-19T06:41:00.000-08:00

nuts to daffodils

we're in our third full/on day of snow, 2 qualifying snow "events," in the space of 4 days - you caught the first musterings-about of this on your way out susan and you're lucky to have gotten out of the curs/ed northeast US when you did

ANd i saw pictures of dublin on the web, on st pat's day, bluesst skiess evere, nnuttss!

that musta been nice

re: ROUNDTABLE - i'm interested in participating, but i think that as this is, by nature, collaborative, i would like to get a sense for whom else wants to participate and WHAT they wanna be rounding about the table -

I have been particularly intrigued by the Miwon Kwon book mentioned so long ago - read it this past month and am really interested in the possibility of touching on (in roundtable fashion) intersections between social activism and "events" which have previously been known as artist installations or happenings - i mean, this stuff isn't new, right, at least in the US with Jenny Holzer and Guerilla Girls (despite their recent galleried, book-dealed fame) and other artists interested in "interventions" that are less interested in presenting examples of Yeats' ole doddery "terrible beauty" and more about dealing with a material reality of a situation or context

and given the WrRd project's ongoing saga of funding hunts and strategy sessions (for me, obviously the most notable being the one Susan and I had with Fractured Atlas, the "consultants" there being so, well, kind of glib about the "packaging" and presentation - the ADMINISTRATION - of a public art event, and even the hunt for volunteer help ("just slap a button on em and they'll do whatever you want") - not to be so glib myself, but this particular angle of the project, from the point of view of the NECESSITY of SUPPORT, and thus having to do things in new york minutes (pardon the expression) and with smiles and good cheer....

IN CONTRAST to the content of the project itself...or at least components of the content - dealing with the delicacy and ephemerality of social situations (the festival, tho rather protracted at 8 months, will still fade in the ether like the head on a pint o the grog

love and snowy noses,
rachel d

2004-03-19T06:14:00.000-08:00

today is daffodil day in dublin and skies are clear.

getting my feet wet and head set straight in this most important location. it is wild to be here after so much time of just imaging. truth is stranger than fiction and so i am fluctuating between a head first dive into the city and a more calm approach. tons of ideas floating around up in the head and meetings have begun. once i get me an adaptor i will recharge my camera batteries and hit the streets for some photo taking of potential sites for you all. if there is anything in particular you are looking for, be sure to remind me. also, for convenience sake, until i get myself a home and a regular computer access it would be best if you communicated with me at my wesleyan.edu address.

a brief recap of my days so far in wrrd land:

before leaving the new york in its snowstorm glory, i visited fractured atlas with rachel daley to discuss their fiscal sponsorship of wrrd. any of the artists seeking donations from individuals and or groups in the u.s. can offer potential donors the option of making their donation tax-deductible by writing the check to Fractured Atlas and putting Wandering Rocks, Revolving Doors in the memo. Once I am settled, I'll get the website set up so people can also make donations directly online. let me know if you want more details. rachel - by the way - is fantastic, full of good ideas like the one below and much energy. glad to have her on board.

after a mindblowing introduction to dublin, st. patricks style, i managed to meet up with the dutch embassy and will make another presentation to the counsellor about getting sponsorship for Franco and Dorine. hopefully we can work out a working relationship with them along the lines of the French and Belgian Embassies.

today i spoke with the educational programme director at the Hugh Lane Gallery about the potential for a round table talk as part of their lunch time talk programme. if you are interested in participating in this event, please let me know as i need to make them a proposal soon. but it looks good on that front as well.

okay, time to look at potential homes and other fun adventures. be well all of you and trust that there will be more to come. cheers and that. susan

2004-03-17T08:36:00.000-08:00

whoa - please excuse the typos in the post i just posted
- r daley

2004-03-17T08:34:00.000-08:00

hello all! after a considerable hiatus, i found my password!

i would like to take some blogspace to describe my own personal fundraising i've been conducting for a coupla weeks now....i call it my FUNDAHONEYBEECANDYPLEDGEOMATIC-athon - AND it wurks like so:

in cahoots with my training for the Brooklyn 1/2 marathon to take place on April 24, I am running 150 miles between march 11 and april 16 (at which point i will be tapering and cutting out lots of mileage), and have (generously, maybe) place the cost of each of those miles, miles being run to earn me way to Dublin, at $14.03 - i am asking donors to contribute to that $14.03 - actually, most people just have given me lump sums, and that's FINE!

so far, i've raised over $500! - yea! - everyone has been terribly supportive and some of them even have read my overly lengthy emails describing my fundariser, my project, WrRd, etc -

[again, in sum, my project's culminate in giving out candies (made out of honey from the orgainc farm i work on, which is home to organic beehives) that are tagged with information about each candy's costs in terms of bee-labor hours, people-labor hours, gallons of fuel to transport, and costs in US dollars - the candies will also give each consumer one activity to enact, taken from the events of the Wandering Rocks episode of the novel, thus making them mimic the bee-hood they are consuming! hah!]

Happy Green Beer Day,

Rachel Daley

2004-03-01T02:33:00.000-08:00

well,

i'm in final prep. susan i need to know a couple of important things. 1. what is the rating on power in dublin? my piece needs electricity so i'm trying to send it with the correct power adaptor/transformer. and 2. is there an address we can send things to? it turns out i'm in japan most of april... so may need to send stuff before april 2nd. is there any chance there'll be an address by then?

i haven't heard back from the nz embassy in dublin btw.

otherwise, fairly on track. currently thinking of doing 800 stickers. is that too many, or not enough?

best to all

ian

2004-02-17T10:28:00.000-08:00

sponsorship and fundraising updates!

hi, all. thought to add something to the neglected files of WrRd blogging.

first off, a congratulations to chris bruno who recently got word that the french embassy will be covering his travel and accomodation costs for his time in dublin. my motto is, where one embassy lends support, the rest will follow.

chris has sent me a logo from the french embassy to add to the pages where we acknowledge our sponsors. if everyone who has gotten sponsorship (in what ever form, fiscal, in kind donations, university stipend, etc) please send me their name, contact information, and any logos/company/university ensignia so we can appropriately thank them.

second matter of business - peple can now donate to the project on-line by going to our funding page and clicking on the "make a donation" button. tell your friends, tell your family, tell anyone who you think might be open to giving. within the month i hope to be able to collect tax-deductable donations for the project as well, but at least this is a start. let me know if you have questions about the process, etc.

hope all is well in your neck of things.

best,

susan

2004-02-05T13:40:00.000-08:00

susan and collaborators,

it's a long weekend here and horrors - no email as there is a network upgrade happening. my project has been further updated. a digital drawing is at

http://ianclothier.orcon.net.nz/pages/hybrid0.htm

For collaborators, here is a general description of the work: It uses the technique of reallage, or four dimensional collage. The piece is an intersection of diversity and is interactive - one of the images on the wall is a light box, but the behaviour of the lights changes dependent on the proximity of the audience to the work. The incorporation of a curtain and chair is aimed to intimate a confessional.

The idea of the confessional thing was a result of feedback via susan. although a chesterfield type armchair is shown, actually it is a conglomerate and several types of chair are suitable. The idea is that exhibiting organisations arrange an armchair from the local community: the piece therefore changes in each location (I'm trying to get it shown in Boston after Dublin, - anyone else know of galleries in the UK/US/Japan/Australia interested in interactive art works?).

susan i changed what the agenbite looks like and the title of the piece - it's now called an 'an agenbite of inwit.' if you are able, please use the new image for the WrRd site. also i'll need to update the description. perhaps use the above description for the meantime?

best

ian

2004-02-03T14:35:00.000-08:00

reflections on the state:

apparently since september 11th, aerlingus has discontinued corporate sponsorship except in the rare and worthy cases of major events like special olympics. on the upside, the woman i spoke with said she would pass around the WrRd press release internally within the office. so don't be surprised if there are men in wings showing up at the launch party.

i also thought to let you all know about the upcoming application process for creative capital grants. They are a great NY-based organization that works fanatically to promote their grantees.

also i am contacting american airlines and continental as well about flight sponsorship. up up and away!

2004-02-02T05:34:00.000-08:00

revolving head

a random quote of joyce's walking habits:

"He always stared straight before him as if he were on parade and, when
he wished to gaze after someone in the street, it was necessary for him
to move his body from the hips."

i have yet to try this out myself, seems nun too subtle.

susan

2004-01-25T21:02:00.000-08:00

rachel, your image is now incorporated into the logo. cheers for that. literally.

http://ianclothier.orcon.net.nz/pages/hybrid03.htm

susan, the updated fla is, as they say, in the mail.

2004-01-19T08:00:00.000-08:00

monday bloody monday.

i say that with great cheer and only a wee bit of post weekend sleep deprivation.

cheers to ian for all his supercharged efforts with the logo and fundraising tactics. i wonder if he sleeps but if not, all the better for us.

this past week has proven quite instrumental in giving weight and heft behind WrRd. feedback is starting to pour in from various locations on your proposals and strategies on how to optimize the impact of these projects. this feedback has been over all enthusiastic; the criticisms are, in my mind, right on point and will in the end push WrRd into better territory. one of the most pertinent comments came from u.s. independent curator mary jane jacob who says:

"while many “claim” to broadcast, comment, provoke, and otherwise engage the public, I wonder how many [projects] will go unnoticed. This is not to be said in the vein of a consumerist, marketing analysis of ‘how much return for investment,’ ‘how many buyers,’ but rather efficacy and value of effort..."

this week i will be sending out individual comments on your projects, and asking for everyone to put in time reevaluating their proposals to make sure that they are articulate and realizable. it would also be great if people can read over the other projects to provide more feedback and also to see how your individual project coincide/conflicts/enhances others.

with that, i am off for more personal communications,

besitos, la susan

2004-01-18T23:45:00.000-08:00

the logo is now updated - eric your image is included. the logo is now wide screen with a white background. i hope to have integrated things a little more. check it at http://ianclothier.orcon.net.nz/pages/hybrid03.htm

the clock appears at the start by request from susan. i'm imaging more will be added, both images and info. susan i'll check out adding a button linked to the site.

re fund raising, i got my first $1000 just before the new year. so i've started harassing the av supplier to get on with the control side of things. i'll going to mock things up here, hopefully within four weeks.

also, i edit a website called www.art-themagazine.com - 1.1 million hits in 2003 according to AWstats. if anyone feels their funding proposal would be enhanced by sponsor exposure on art-themagazine.com, I'm happy to listen to proposals. could be part of a package.

my email address for sending images: i.clothier@witt.ac.nz

cheers

ian

2004-01-16T09:39:00.000-08:00

Bueno, bueno.

Am back at blog world. Hurrah!

All is going well here, am pursuing funding like a bloodhound. Pretty soon, once I get some details sorted out, we will be able to solicit donations straight on the website. The fundraising campaign will be both via formal (ie fundraising letters with packets) and email (for all the friends and family and colleagues) so start your list...

This site just came to my attention - a great resource perhaps for all of you who are located in Europe. Take a visit and see if any of these groups jump out at you. I have a letter of solicitation that we can adapt to our needs, but first I need to know which groups should be targeted.

http://www.europeanirish.com/Social/main.htm

Other good news is that we have begun to attract the attention of a handful of independent curators. This promises good things for all, but also reinforces the need for a lot of cooperation and commitment from each of us. It would be great if people could be writing in with updates on the status of their projects, so that we can locate the problem areas before hand.

I am working pretty much full time at this now, and am happy to be in close communication. So pass on word and I'll be here to catch it.

Be well,

Susan