It's a pleasant thing when a weekends programme of events comes over as something put together by people who really want to do it.No anxieties about fulfilling organisational remits, no clip-boards with correct categories of interpretation, just a series of engagements with the idea of work leisure being and waiting. There are worse things to wait for than a train, as viewers of David Davies LED-strip timetable of death row decisions made clear.
4 Lucys were involved in the weekends events: Lucy Kimbell looking at the culture of self-assessment and consultation in interviews producing both an interaction and an on-the-spot diagram from each participant which embodied their being-in-the-world in an immediate way. Luci Eyers invited the office workers of the nation to exchange cyberskiving possibilities. Andre Stitt. well wot a full stop. Hats pants and hams off .had to b there. words doubleplusungood.You might have found it silly or powerful but interpretation is not useful. For the energetically inclined Roddy Hunter led psychogeographic tours of the city, the Law, and the subterranean currents. But don't just do something, sit around instead. Urban Thoreau Otiose lay back and relaxed. And relaxed, and ... Romance in the evening... Paul Rooney cemented his reputation as the PoMo Neil Diamond in the piano bar at the Queens Hotel. Normally a semi-deserted haunt of blind-dating estate agents, it felt the breath of life, the pulse of the festive, the drinks of the drunk. All this and a film premiere too: The Target Shoots First by Chris Wilcha gave the insiders eye on early 90s corporate culture; a goo d film to see in a double bill with startup.com for another vision of the inside. Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez led intense discussion on globalisation and the export of worktime down Mexico Way. Lucky they did it before they went to see Panic Room at the pictures...."it was very very scary,we're exhausted"... A weekend which somehow remembered that live art isn't just about not enjoying yourself. also you can buy Richard dedominicis' booklets dirt cheap at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you should.You'd enjoy them. regards from gair ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
