TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

10:33 PM
Posted by jodi rose

thursday 10 nov 05
22:21
bridge guard residency, sturovo
a few quick words to connect with the world again
after ten longs hours on the train back from ljubljana
home in time to see the film at my local kino
which tonight was terry gilliam's brazil
brilliant, dystopian arcane/future all too real
a little unsettling and feeling paranoid about every noise
but always takes a while to adjust to new place aurally
seeing shapes in the shadows too - sleep best option
amused myself on the train inventing collective nouns for various art practices - googled to see what exists and found a jubilation of larks
which I love - had been thinking of a murder of owls
the only suggestion i found online was a corona of artists
mine are more medium specific:
a wave of sound artists
a lumen of vj's
a render of media artists
a tarn of environmental artists
a train of conceptual artists
a flicker of film-makers
a nonsense of dadaists
... like i said it was a long train journey

also thinking about the idea of *home*
and where home is at different times
in relation to where I might post stuff when I have to leave...
for me, right now, this bridge is home
although it involves constantly moving borders,
rigorously controlled crossings
and as heidegger said back in the day
homelessness is coming to be the condition of the world
or maybe our homes are everywhere, moving with us
three men sleeping on wooden benches in a large heated room at the sturovo train station, and another narrow room with card game
reminded me of the need to find out about the underworld here
metaphysical and actual

luka telling me about his norwegian friend who i reminded him of,
she is like a troll he said - adaptable, happy, friendly
trolls are the angels of the north
I love that.