The Last Days

1/18/2018

I'm just sharing an image from the CAS Project Laboratory of Dissent 2015. Teams of artists worked a week each in a tag-team manner. This image shows part of my collaboration with David Dixon and Helen Northcott. A bit of a throwback but this was in some ways the precursor to the Block_Chain dissent project.

It feels like we've only just begun our Block but we officially hand over the baton to Block 2 on Monday night.
My plans for the weekend involve spending all day today and tomorrow writing minutes and Board papers for greenbelt.org.uk
and taking part in a public reading for readinginternational.org
But I will also get to the studio to make my placards. Heavy rain is forecast most of the weekend but I will find a window to get out to somewhere and get at least one photo of the 'Nature is us all in the end' placard in a wild setting (preferable Greenham Common). If I can get the others made and documented too I'll feel like I've pushed as far as I can in this first phase.
I would like to continue this dialogue beyond Monday's deadline. It really feels like it could be the beginning of something (as well as obviously being the beginning of Block_Chain). It has been exciting exchanging and reflecting so far. It would be interesting to see where it wants to go.
Thoughts, James?

3 Comments

Maija

1/21/2018 03:50:50 pm

I look forward to following how your blockchain collaboration continues to unfold!

Ashokkumar Mistry link

1/21/2018 04:12:17 pm

Some very insightful work and lots to take in. I look forward to unpicking and building the next block with Karen Wood

James McColl

1/21/2018 08:59:52 pm

Peter,

It is a shame that the residency in its current form is finishing so soon for us, I feel we have just started to build some moment. I too think that we could carry this on past Monday, is some way or another.

Other the last two days I've been taking the text out into locations as we suggested - though the weather has been fairly brutal so I had a very limited window. I did experiment with snippets of text inside to see what I could do (rather than twiddle my thumbs until it had stopped raining) - some of the results I've put on instagram.

For me, this part of the project didn't work as well as i had hoped, possibly because I didn't have enough time to get the kinds of images I wanted. I made some (very rough) placards and signs that I took out with me, though only ended up using a few. I'll go through the photos I've taken and post them tomorrow morning, I'm looking forward to what you've come up with.

James

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