Back to work

Had an interesting weekend at leeds fest. I collected loads of stuff and took around 300 pictures with my new wide format camera which is like a normal camera with extra bits on the side. The whole experience made me think about praxis as so many things came up around the individual objects or artefacts I chose to pick up in the field which I wouldn't hjave thought about in theory. I questioned methodology a lot but decided that the main thing was that I didn't try and do psudo comtemporary archeology or material culture study or contempory collecting so stuff like lables and dates and times and specemen bags didn't seem right but I did start to photograph everything in situe at the moment of it's collection which seems really obvious now but felt like a revelation at the time. So I have a box of things a chunk of memories and loads of photoes - all visual no interveiws no sound no personal reflection - I'm going to think about the space between all this stuff and the positioning of the artist and individual experience in the re-presentation of the event in a form which could be used within the artemis collection and possibly ask if this could evolve into a stand alone piece of work outside the structure of the artemis remit.

just stuff

was at artemis this week , looking and taking photos it was fab, empty and they are so nice and helpful.
i like how there is sucha detachment from these objects, no romance or fetish-ising [sic?] its "just a load of stuff', they have a practical relationship with the items, just like us on the farm, the value is in the use for schools and therefore job or related use with regard to past jobs such as delivery drivers previous life as engineer. im interested in this, when do we begin the romance, how does it start? Was listening to interesting program on radio 4 about value and how we could / neeed to use differetnt rational and criteria for valueing things -they were comparing the thames estuary with stonehenge - in the end stonehenge won, !!!!! but i was wondering that is it just because we know its man made a monument a symbol of continuiuty and we are connected somehow to it that it becomes more imortant, than something we had a hand in but really it does its own thing?