Dear Elizabeth
Thanks so for this link to Millenium Centre, Cardiff Bay. A great
inscription. As said to poet Martin Stannard, I must have literally been
sleep walking to my PC to make such a crass and glib statement re New Poetry
when my life is all about doing these days.
Went to a fantastic exhibition at Norwich Castle last week: Karsten Bott's
'Archive of Contemporary Life.'
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?document=200.21.10.012
(a slow link, so might be worth copying to address bar).
Over 500,000 items of post war consumer items archived and exhibited. As
you'll know Elizabeth (cris cheek and Mairead too) this obsessive collecting
is close to my work, mine mini in comparison. Bott's exhibition is a
revalation: artistically impelling, politically/socially frightening.
Buildings. Ever a hero, Richard Wilson (who once taught me), turns buildings
inside out these days but what impresses me still, his exhibtion of crude
oil one walked through inside a building.
I have problems with buildings - outside and in! Luckily, I have two sheds
and a tent...
***
With other artists, I'm working on a really large outdoor sculpture made
from disguarded pop-tent fibreglass polls (about 25 metres diamenter).
Forget willow weaving!
All wishes, Rupert
www.mallin.blogspot.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth James" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: New Poetry?
> See Gwyneth Lewis's inscription for the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay
> http://www.urban75.org/photos/wales/millennium-centre.html
>
> This is imo an example of good public text art, located and relevant,
> 'accessible' without banality, durable by virtue of its limitation.
>
> Not intending to insult Rupert's original comment. The metaphor is perhaps
> also a
> problem though. We do live and think in buildings and other constructions,
> where people are together. The artist as wild rover is perhaps a limiting
> fantasy? Yes, there is also homelessness and exclusion. Also the outside
> of
> a minority language, like Welsh, which is having a resurgence in Cardiff,
> I
> gather.
>
> e (this message was bounced earlier, so now it's even older and colder,
> sorry)
>
> From: "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Perhaps you'd like to install your project "Moles, Galls and Starlings" on
> the outside of "The Gherkin"?
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