"... I blew all the circuits.. "
... overheard at the C4f3 cafe at the San Jose Museum of Art on Monday morning.
Day two of attending ISEA in San Jose. A lot of artists are here running around doing the 'ineedthistechnothingycantfindit' pre-festival chicken-shaking voodo dance. I'm pretty familiar with the steps having participated at ISEA in 1995 Montreal and 1996 Rotterdam and am more than happy to take a break from it. It's hard to see the end when you are deep in an unforeseen problem and the stress levels rise dramatically when you have to solve it fast in an unknown environment. This time I'm just here observing and soaking up all that the festival and San Jose has to offer. The actual exhibition starts tomorrow night but I've already checked out what's up in the South Hall and behind it. The place is abuzzin with electricity and motion as everyone is doing last minute installation tasks. Behind the South Hall encircled with bright yellow caution tape, the SRL crew have already parked a few of their great hulking machines. I've only seen photos and videos of them in action so just looking at them in person was a highlight of the day . Later Daniel told me that the SRL crew didn't like people looking at the machines. No one said anything to me though.
Daniel relaxes with his mobile sound work.
Spent yesterday evening with most of the Vancouver crew. Vancouver is like a second home to me so it was great to see them all and catch up. Even better is that we are far away from home and hanging out in San Jose as if we were all back in Van. Art brought us all together way back when and art takes us places. Today I ran into some of the New Zealand folks that I just met a few weeks ago and found out they will be crashing the Canadian Consulates 'Canadian ' party on Weds... wooohoo..!! What a great bunch of folks. They took care of us down under and am glad to hear they will be joining us here. Artists are the best people in the world to hang out with.
Had a really great burrito for lunch today. Mexico is not far from where we are so the food in California has been improved by the influx of Mexican culture from across the border. all I can say now is... yum.....
Day two of attending ISEA in San Jose. A lot of artists are here running around doing the 'ineedthistechnothingycantfindit' pre-festival chicken-shaking voodo dance. I'm pretty familiar with the steps having participated at ISEA in 1995 Montreal and 1996 Rotterdam and am more than happy to take a break from it. It's hard to see the end when you are deep in an unforeseen problem and the stress levels rise dramatically when you have to solve it fast in an unknown environment. This time I'm just here observing and soaking up all that the festival and San Jose has to offer. The actual exhibition starts tomorrow night but I've already checked out what's up in the South Hall and behind it. The place is abuzzin with electricity and motion as everyone is doing last minute installation tasks. Behind the South Hall encircled with bright yellow caution tape, the SRL crew have already parked a few of their great hulking machines. I've only seen photos and videos of them in action so just looking at them in person was a highlight of the day . Later Daniel told me that the SRL crew didn't like people looking at the machines. No one said anything to me though.
Daniel relaxes with his mobile sound work.
Spent yesterday evening with most of the Vancouver crew. Vancouver is like a second home to me so it was great to see them all and catch up. Even better is that we are far away from home and hanging out in San Jose as if we were all back in Van. Art brought us all together way back when and art takes us places. Today I ran into some of the New Zealand folks that I just met a few weeks ago and found out they will be crashing the Canadian Consulates 'Canadian ' party on Weds... wooohoo..!! What a great bunch of folks. They took care of us down under and am glad to hear they will be joining us here. Artists are the best people in the world to hang out with.
Had a really great burrito for lunch today. Mexico is not far from where we are so the food in California has been improved by the influx of Mexican culture from across the border. all I can say now is... yum.....
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