Hi NBs Thanks for waves and encouragement folks : ))))))))))))))))
First, and out of order, a couple of bulletins ========= There were dramatic thunder storms here in Istanbul last night followed by terrible news of at least 40 deaths due to 'freak' flooding across Turkey http://tinyurl.com/mva84s ========= This Open Letter from Resistanbul poses a friendly challenge to participants, artists, curators and organisers of the Istanbul Biennial http://tinyurl.com/nsfmfw ========= >>>Overland from Linz: lowish-tech techniques for overland blogging>>>>> One thing I hadn't really resolved before undertaking this overland trek (as an experimental realisation of We Wont Fly For Art) was how to keep in regular contact without buying shiny new connective consumer technology. I am carrying a recycled laptop with a battery life of about 10 minutes and a year old mobile phone with camera and video- my feeling is that this should be good enough. So two techniques:- 1) back-blogging which involves jimmying the publish date on the blog - employed here http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/300 to maintain the time-flow of my reporting and cope with restricted access to electricity and too many interesting people to talk to ; ) 2) parasitical reblogging (see future posts)- ArtsCatalyst's curator, Rob La Frenais joined Aileen and I between Linz and was equipped to twitter, tweet and blog as we went. So in the next post I will retweet our journey from Rob's perspective. I spent a couple of days (Friday to Sunday) in Linz and enjoyed meeting folk gathered for Ars Electronica (more to follow about this). It was great to meet again with Ushi from Servus http://core.servus.at - still doing great work. I also especially enjoyed the beautifully put together, multi-curated "See this Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision" exhibition at Lentos http://www.lentos.at/en/45_1769.asp which showed what really good Media Art curation looks like. It includes wonders like Laurie Anderson's 'You move through me' in which visitors convey the music embedded in a table along the hollows of their arm bones through their elbows directly into their heads. Other highlights included Adrian Piper's 'Funk' (lessons in dancing funk), Nam June Paik's 'Random Access', the score for 'Water Music' by John Cage, David Rokeby's audio installation of 'Very Nervous System', video installation of activist expressions and gestures by Ultra-Red and more by Throbbing Gristle and Dan Flavin with Patti Smith. I had an hour and a half and could have spent at least double that. On Saturday and Sunday Aileen and I got prepared for our 36 hour non-stop trip to Istanbul. We bought travel pouches to keep our valuables on us. We were unable to book a sleeper between Sophia and Istanbul as the system is not yet digitised and so works on a first-come-first-served system in which you pay the conductor on boarding the train. We bought Turkish Currency, gathered books (for me, Alan Garner's Thursbitch and Gerald Raunig's Art and Revolution) and shopped for food and drink that was tasty, nourishing and treaty: wine, water, various dry cracker-type things (rye, rice and wheat-based) and spreads (hummous, pate and fish-spreads), a cucumber, a red pepper, chocolate, biscuits, nuts and fruit. We boarded the train in Linz rather anxious, double checking timetables, texting loved ones and wondering what crucial things we might have forgotten. We Won't Fly For Art! http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart
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