Yesterday I went to the orientation meeting for the aim program at the bronx museum. There were 36 of us sitting in a circle. It was like the first day of school, with only awkward artists. The museum manager discussed the program, and after we all stood around and met each other properly. The idea of the program is not just to have seminars with curators, artists, critics and the likes, but to form an art community with the other artists, to form a solid group. I liked the people I met, it was a bit overwhelming because there were so many, a bit like speed dating really but with art questions: Hi, whats your name? which program are you in (the winter or the spring)? what kind of work do you make? over and over. I really have a hard time expressing my work in that way - as video, stopmotion, sound and some drawing and also installations with radios... it gets so messy and doesn't describe anything I do. There should be a better way.
Whitfield Lovell did the aim program years ago, and got famous afterwards. I just found this work of his. I wonder if my radio work was a subconscious projection into the future, intuition that I would be following his lead. Maybe you're telepathic and I can predict the future.
