TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

martes, abril 06, 2004

10:36 AM
Posted by jodi rose

freiraum, quartier 21, museum's quartier, Vienna

very glad I spent the time and energy choosing exactly the right pensione in vienna, it is the perfect decompression chamber from the crazy wild fabulousness of helsinki. Already I am missing the impentrable language and cultural architecture, and of course my cocoon of constant companionship with a selection of wonderful, intelligent, bright, fun gorgeous human beings.

Wandered into the museum's quartier just round the corner from pension quisisana - gorgeous 60's decor, the best chandelier I have seen in a long time in my room, lovely family run warm welcome and a good long night's sleep - and now I am in a room suffused with pink light from multiple neon globes on hexagonal space shapes. It is an exhibition called 'pink light: the epiphany of philip k dick' with ambient electronic music and a selection of contemporary archeological material collected from urban locations - which is the emergent theme of the last week, for me anyway.

http://pinklight.net/pub/Pinklight/

Still filtering and processing everything that has gone on, there is a sense of having slightly tilted the framing of my imagination and thinking about the work I am doing for masters and ABC residency and I can feel things clicking into new places. We will see where it leads. Had another conversation with andrew about the application of archeological/ethnographic reading to the process and material for my new collections of bridge sounds. Inhabiting them over time, and watching patterns and rhythms emerge. I am very excited to have rediscovered the poetic and personal elements of the work, which has become very abstracted and theoretical over the last few years.

Yes, came over all poetic in helsinki. Well, wouldn't you!!!??

Now I am going to see Eva Hesse exhibition, and get myself to the airport and on the plane to barcelona. Crick and Nigel YAY!!!!!

Thank you to all the pixelache crew, juha for the juha magic in making it all happen; petri for the special dancesteps; sanna for the translations and everything else; ophra for the tlc, and voytec for the lama shadow puppets and 'britney died on friday' photo, tuomo for the disco laundro, all the artists for your great energy; ANAT for funding my trip; and sophea and andrew for organising the workshops; sophea also for the warm welcome, girltalk and arranging for my luggage to be collected when I couldn't walk; andrew for the poetic inspiration in various forms, and all the participants - I love youse all (in aussie accent) Ossie Ossie Ossie OI OI OI

I have joined sophea's art-disco-synth-electro band - will post the site for t-shirt later.

xxxjro