Monday, April 02, 2007

Collational activity

greetings all from merry chch,

thanks for feedback on 'negative response collation'. perhaps to avoid excessive negativity we could wait until the positive reponses have been collated from across the tasman and produce those in tandem?? this would perhaps create a better balance, and potentially get some good conversations going between the respondees (i'm making up words today).

also, i thought that the little blurb (in grey?) which was on sian and liz's collation could be transferred as a brief ending for all of the collations. it sounded quite universal i thought. how much longer does prospect even run for? i've lost track of time..........

and, um, other stuff.....HSP would love some pencils to sell down here! there is a little spot in the reading room which i would love to fill up with orangeness!!

also, just a little thing to think about. HSP is all about the off site projects this year. we even have a new position to coordinate these, and we are busy coming up with new and exiciting ideas. i realise we are all very busy, and thinking about lots of different projects. but i thought that this might be a great way to faciliate a TAC project in chch sometime in the future. whether it be talks, workshops, investigation of local art community, a publication, a discussion, perhaps even a collaboration toolkit!! i'm just planting the seed in all of your minds (speaking of seeds, one has to be careful of falling acorns in chch, they are quite sore on the old noodle!!)

hope you are all well, and miss you all heaps xxxx

2 comments:

Liz said...

Hi tom!
nice words, hey our pencils are HOT!! thats great, paula was checkin' on the stocks the other day and I think we can retrieve a box from cgal and send 'em your way...
I like the idea of merging yours and andies responses, and agree about the grey blurb at the end too.
Prospect finishes at the end of this month and I sure am looking forward to looking back on it as a discreet project.
We have a whole lot more (and i mean a WHOLE LOT MORE) responses every week!
go go gadget Tac!

Sian said...

HI TOM!!! WE MISS YOU!!!! Well that's speaking collaboratively I guess...but i miss you!!!

Hope Ch Ch is going well x I have instructed my sister to come in and meet you. She is very nice if a little shy.

Yes merge the responses. Damn the negativity, it needs balancing I say. And yes to the grey blurb.

And yes to thinking about something in Christchurch. I reckon that is the way to keep us all excited and involved is to have satellite projects goin on. And I like coming down South. Any excuse I say.

I must say that I think the room sheets are super great, adn it has made me excited that we found a way to collate them. I was really proud of the popcorn one; it was great to see a result from all teh responses. I am keen to make a documetn of teh responses adn of CAMRU. I reckon it's been too great a project to just let it all go? A book, a document, a PDF, I don't know but if we gave ourselves some time we could collate the responses in responsive ways and then put something together with lovely picstures etc etc. I reckon it would be a really interesting thing.

X S