IMMEDIACY

two workshops, which were practical sessions designed to illuminate the theory we have been examining in the first four sessions. These workshops have produced a kind of hybrid situationism, with points of discussion arising from what has been produced. The debates also around digital imaging in relation to object-making, and the decentring of individual practice to group authorship. [ Individual practice is not deserted however. These simple dialectics and conditions establish a question of 'practice' : provisions for a new grounding for radical art, at least ostensibly so. The very site of production being a lecture theatre is itself interesting as an alternative [ there is always an alternative] being 'inside' the system, and yet historically always having provided radical views and social activism to be incubated. The relation therefore to a kind of production within the sphere of the academic, that is at the same time uncertain and oblique, allocates a space for provisional development of anti-aesthetic procedures nominated as 'dirty' space, or 'context responsive curating'.

There are two objectives immediately at hand. The text explication [the blog] and the essay of 2000 words to complete by the end of the vacation period. The three weeks space will generously allow time for the 2000 word essay to be undertaken. I have cut the text explication requirement to one only, placed more emphasis on the blog and its potential for research material, and brought the essay back, so as to concentrate later on the potential for an exhibition and the pragmatics of setting it up with time, for mailing press releases, invitations etc. and coinciding with the construction of the website. The exhibition / event might be possible in the AMF Bowling, Merrion Centre. I imagine the group can invite performances, and artists to participate. Alex Keating will arrange for meetings with the management.