Comments for ArtsCross 2011

Comment on Yatin’s Interview with Yen-Fang by Angela Woodhouse

Angela Woodhouse — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:55:49 +0000

This is the ‘voice’ of another dancemaker from afar who has been following this blog with interest. I was pushed to reply to you as I valued the directness and honesty of your responses. I was thinking, as I was waking of the dichotomoty of uncertainty as an absolute necessity or certainty in the making, and that we are driven to these nerve wracking and uncomfortable places. This notion of uncertainty seems all around us as a necessary state to new beginnings whether it be the rebellions across the Middle East, the cries against corruption in India, the rage against financial upheaval in Europe or the spilling of young people looting and burning in my neighbourhood of Tottenham and Wood Green in London – where the building I often used as a landmark is no longer there. All this may be a world away as you attend to the detail and finess of the performance (which may have already happened)or we can imagine your experience as a micro of all this change around us. I hope you enjoy the final conclusion of the project and good luck for the questions that come out of this process.

Comment on Ninety-odd singular sensations by Donald Hutera

Donald Hutera — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:35:32 +0000

Again, wish I could be there this weekend but I’m sure I’ll hear a lot about it, and can read about it, and the ripples from it will pass out into the wider world…

Comment on How to capture the “smell” of a work in an image by Donald Hutera

Donald Hutera — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:56:39 +0000

They are wonderful photos indeed and I definitely sense a simmering of differing aromas. Muchos gracias, muchacha! Or should that be mujere grande?

Comment on A sense of push in the world by Angela Woodhouse

Angela Woodhouse — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:15:05 +0000

Hello Martin
I enjoyed this evocation of the forces expressed through the body by these artists. It recalled for me the interview of Tony Cragg this week prior to his opening in Edinburgh in which he insisted on the energy/force expressed in his sculptures was not symbolic, or in any way representational but was a reality and a necessity.

Comment on The ‘other’ is much the same by Angela Woodhouse

Angela Woodhouse — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:53:38 +0000

Hello Steffi
I am enjoying the reading from (not so sunny) London – It seems that your experience of observation goes beyond cultures and yet is embedded within them – an interesting tension it would seem.

Comment on Home sweet…home? by Angela Woodhouse

Angela Woodhouse — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:25:04 +0000

Hello Kate, and thank-you for taking me into the room from afar. This reply comes late but am eagerly catching up on the observations of you and all.

Comment on The Remaining Mountain by Kate March

Kate March — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:26:15 +0000

I think this post is really fitting to the daily geographical context we are in here at TNUA. When I am walking from studio to studio or up the hill to the guesthouse, or down the hill to the metro, I am very aware of the mountains. I am physically aware of the strength it takes going up, going down. I am visually and perceptually aware of their majesty, their beauty, and also, at their physical dominance. I have urges to trace the mountains with my body. Perhaps the metaphorical mountains emerge from the physical mountains that surround us in someway? Anyway, I appreciate this post. I also saw this re-united painting and was drawn to the concept and manifestation of mountain.

Comment on [Botany) by Martin Welton

Martin Welton — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:02:18 +0000

(the earlier comment was a facetious response to complaint by Paul that his blog entry had received no comments).

Comment on [Botany) by Martin Welton

Martin Welton — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:47:36 +0000

yep.

Comment on The ‘other’ is much the same by Kate March

Kate March — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:55:20 +0000

Perhaps it’s never enough to simply leave it as a duality between ‘other’ and ‘common/shared’. There is always the in-between and nearly always some continuum of what is shared and what is different…