DAI week for the second-last time
This has been my second-last-ever DAI week. One more in May, none in June, assessments in July, and the whole business is complete.
Things were a little chaotic on Monday morning due to a visiting lecturer being ill, meaning that we didn’t really get started until noon. We ended up having one big feedback session for the whole group, at which I was able to show my little greenhouse. Although I am far from happy with it, it was still useful to get some constructive feedback from the other students.
Tuesday took the form of a class with Gabriëlle about “the future”, a topic which I find almost too frightening to even think about. It was quite useful though to have to answer some of the awkward questions that I have been doing my best to avoid, even such basic ones as “how are you going to feed yourself?” and such things.
I sat very nervously in my studio on Wednesday morning, since I was due to receive the first visit of the day from David Behrman. Various staff members had pointed out that he is a very important figure who we should all be suitably in awe of. As it turned out he was a very friendly old man and not at all arrogant, in contrast to some other visitors we have had from time to time.
Thursday was the busiest day of all as we tried to get as much sorted as possible for our forthcoming appearance at the Kunstvlaai in May. All this while at the same time trying to write some text to submit for the book being written based on the Here as the Centre of the World project, and on top of this a presentation on Friday morning about the Gerard Byrne workshop in Utrecht in November.
Friday afternoon was once again time for Sanne’s performance workshop. After some discussion of works that people had prepared, we were once again running around and showing our expressive sides, forgetting our inhibitions, and of course being a bit childish at the same time. This is nothing to be ashamed of; adults should do so much more often, in my opinion.
Finally, dinner at the new DAI house as prepared by Maciej and Manami, thus Polish-Japanese with plenty of vodka to wash it down. A fine end to the week, but of course not the best preparation for the journey back to Amsterdam the next morning.
