Had a good meeting with Kate G on friday. We caught up on the project and decided we should spend some time at Artemis working at the site and with the people there. I'd been to a seminar on socially engaged arts practise and it had made me cross. I think I get annoyed by artists talking up their role and people making a fuss about the fact they have actually talked to a person as though this is something new. I do see a lot of value in the work and the way it can inform systems and change practises but I struggle with the idea of the arts as a social good and cultural entitlement as it all seems very class driven and paternalistic.
Anyway the chat with Kate seemed to be about focussing down - both Kates MA dissertation and the work at artemiss. Kate said I should get some sausage beans eggs and chips deadlines set and also fix the meal as I keep changing it - adding ketchup and sometimes even Bacon. It feels like an important thing to do - to map a plan and build a piece of work within a timescale so we move things on and a divergent stage comes convergent through practise.
The materialities stuff is interesting and the thing that makes this project art is that we will be making new stuff and I think we have come to a point where we should do this so we can move forward.
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after working with my open art group [another project steve and i are working on aroound community enagemant] i realised that people dont talk to one another meaning workers to community and that in their excitement and enthusiaum of doing it they think theyve done something amazing - but as you say they have just had a superficial converstion with them. maybe its that enthusiasum of doing something that gets those artists and speakers excitied they get carried away. Also art i suppose is so used tobeing not looked at by most people other than the middle classes that when we it gets involved with other areas of society it maybe feelslike weve done something ground breaking! re moira comment and getting a different audience through the door!
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