TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

viernes, abril 02, 2004

10:08 PM
Posted by jodi rose

suomennlina island hostel

writing this in between sending images with sms text fragments from the phone. It will be up website will from tomorrow, as we are giving presentations from the signal process and locative media workshops. 'connecting via the internet'... indeed.
here is the website I was looking for earlier, with the aware things www.awa-re.net

today is the day of many in-depth discussions, with Villje and Sami from Grey Zone Weather Matrix and Kamppi Reconstruction, about composing, architecture, weather, some connections that came up between their work and mine during the presentations today .... their websites are www.cncd.fi
www.cmt.siba.fi/samjarvi/kamppi/index.html
after that had a long conversation with Lex Bhagat, who interviewed me for a book he is compiling of sound artists, it was one of those times when suddenly all my ideas were so lucid and I could articulate them clearly - he recorded it, but now I am wishing I had also for the program I make about the other 2 projects. We are all part of the landscape sampling section of pixelache.

Then back to the MUU gallery for a locative meeting, quickly transferred the binaural railway station recording from DAT to pro-tools so I can burn it to CD in the morning, for listening in conjunction with my picture/text fragments and also Pete is using some of the escalator sound in his video. there are some images and other things from the workshop here - http://www.muu.fi/signalprocess/index.html

Tonight, I have been hanging out with Alice at her NIFCA residency studio on the other side of the island. It is quite amazing, with the 300 year old sea fortress around you, and pieces of old military machinery around the landscape. We ate delicious soup - it's quite hard to get hot food here, unless you eat at a restaurant, which is strange, all the cafe's kiosk type stuff you can buy easily is cold (but then public waiting places like the ferry stop are incredibly well heated and draught free -
and talked about art projects. Her website is www.hostelprojects.org and is really intriguing, playing with the assigning of cultural value, setting up an umbrella for many different curators to work under, since you don't always need money, but not having an institution or some framework behind you can make it very difficult to arrange projects and get funding, also they have an informal parasite residency program where you invite people to share part of the residencies you get. Some gorgeous ideas too about barter and generosity, the hostel badge allows people to ask for help of any kind from anyone else wearing one. Alice tells me that over the years, people often think she doesn't like them or their work, due to a combination of speech tone and not being effusive in a way that is recognisable or readable as appreciation or interest. And she remembers people for years after meeting them, so created these fabric text bands to sew onto their clothing. Can I sew one onto yours? How beautiful, yes of course. So now I have a lovely red strip on my swedish wrists (like woollen gauntlets or gloves with no fingers) that says
'ajattelen teitä koko ajar'
in finnish, there is no separation of future tense, so the phrase 'I think about you all the time' also means 'I will think of you always.'


Sanna translated the text I am using into Finnish, it's gorgeous in another language! Kaipausta ei voi kartoittaa GPS: llä
Seisomassa kadulla, nauraen
Haluan vain jonkun haluavan minua
Kaipaus ylikuormittaa kommunikaatiolinjat
Meillä on yhteys

that's all for tonight, I must concentrate now on completing this work and then get some sleep.