Lawrence,
I'm keen on the idea of the colloquium and interested in contributing to
discussion with brief paper or in other ways, but to be honest I would
prefer to have longer to think and go to a colloquium in the autumn. My
year goes through an extreme bottleneck over the next few months and less
thinking and happening goes on for a while. Summer allows for thought. But
this is how my year works and others may differ. I would come along
whenever it was held, if I felt that it would be a place where people were
trying to talk about their current practice and think about others'. My
view is that such events work best with a lot of advance planning of
conversations, papers, much talk with possible contributors, so that
dialogues, tours, performances interanimate one another. Just to throw
together the heap of offerings and provide coffee doesn't work very well in
my experience. Then you have a stiffness of previous finish, papers that
present bulwarks and loot.
Do stick with the plan though, please.
Peter
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