TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, January 21, 2008

1:05 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Random fragments from a life in hyper-drive. How did that happen?


The past 24 hours have seen me ironing and mopping in the name of art... which is more than I've done in the last 2 years. Ironing vinyl to the wall for Sophie's installation, now opening a portal to the history of the building.

Still more tangents than direction. It's all very well being dedicated to living a poetic life, and the esoteric can be comforting, yet a pinch of pragmatic focus never goes astray.

Girl cannot live on bridges alone.

I had the excellent fortune to hear Alain Badiou give a lecture on art and politics to a packed room at Kunstwerk on Friday night. He talked in that hypnotic voice with lilting intonation about displacement, fragility, place, affirmatism (his new manifesto), and 'finding a place where being together is enough'.

At the moment I'm deeply immersed in the transit lounge collaboration process, which involves many hours on skype with 10 people, working towards the opening night on 31st January. Interesting threads about time, technology, place and displacement emerging.... We're trying to find a place where 'being together' is POSSIBLE.

Back to work now. Enough of this dilly-dallying around.