Meeting Kunstvlaai preparation
As mentioned last week, we are to have a space at the Kunstvlaai in May; this will form a platform to present the Here as the Centre of the World project, as well to introduce our forthcoming return trips in September, and also to promote the book about the project (see last week for controversy regarding this last point).
I had volunteered to help with the construction of the stand, which should take the form of a large tower with drawers of various sizes. This is intended to be a physical archive, a representation of the book and the project in a form that will hopefully be interesting and engaging for the public.
Today I had a quick meeting at OT301 with James Beckett, who is curating the exhibition, and his assistant Andre. Owing to the limited amount of money available, the idea is to buy a whole bunch of cheap drawer chests from IKEA, and somehow build them into a tower. This should hopefully appear as a coherent whole, and not as too much of a random jumble.
The original plan was to contrive some sort of mechanism to make one drawer pop out as another would go in, and so on, but James is of the opinion that this is a bit too complicated to be realised in the time and budget available. I was a bit disappointed about this, but on the other hand I do appreciate that he is the one responsible for actually making this happen, and that he has to choose for practicability over optimism.
