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Friday, January 23, 2009
If you're any where near Newcastle upon Tyne at the moment do pop in to Baltic to see the show that Nicky Peacock has curated using the guidelines set out by Miranda July and Harrel Fletcher in their project Learning to love you more.
From the Telegraph article: "Over the past seven years they (July and Fletcher) have posted 70 "assignments" on the project's website. People are invited to take a little bit of time out of their lives to produce an act of creative expression. It can be as simple as taking a photograph of their parents kissing. These small gestures are brought together in something larger: a vibrant and inspiring online archive of intimate images, thoughts and experiences, comprising more than 8,000 contributions from around the world.
Instructions to "give advice to yourself in the past" have elicited responses from the ridiculous ("Don't draw Nazi symbols on your sister's forehead in permanent marker") to the tragic ("Don't tell your father that you hate him before he goes to Iraq. For the rest of your life you will be sorry for the little cruelties you were so adept at meting out when he doesn't come back"). "
My contribution to the project is a response to the assignment "Speak to somebody who has experienced war" where I transcribed the interview I recorded with Sean T Lewis,(Portland, Oregon) a veteran of the first Iraq conflict who talked vividly about his experiences of war. The interview was for my film Goth Cruise and an edited version is used in the film.
posted by Jeanie Friday, January 23, 2009
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