here i am again! mexico was a very important experience for me, even

if i haven't been there for a long time. i've never before been out of

europe and it turned out to move a lot in my thoughts about how this

world works, how wrong it has started to turn. and it also awoke a need in me to point out things that are not ok, maybe as well with my art, which doesn't have to be as placative as it may sound.

and this leads me to an idea i had for our project.

lily was talking about choosing a theme as a step that can be a big

help and i must say i think it would help us here too, since we need

this blog to get into a certain direction. now we could decide, if

this theme should be a certain topic, a question, an answer or

something associative, maybe it could even be a specific concern we want to talk

about, something of great actuality, or it could be something that leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

here just some words that came into my mind when i read all of our

blog entries:

*melancholy
*mutation
*transformation
*landscapes
*physical
*bodies
*gender
*vulnerability
*nature
*sexuality

so if you all like the idea of having a topic, a sentence, words, a
certain concern
to guide our discussion, we could start collecting ideas, form a pool, do some brainstorming together...
what do you think?

what about the gallery - any news?

goodnight from zurich
*m

I am working too...

Thank you Gabriella for presenting yourself! I think your photographs look interesting, when you show them are they in large series or as singles and which sizes do you work in? Just for me to get an idea on how they look. Maybe you could post a documentation form somewhere where you have shown some of your work? (If you can and want to!)

Lily, I don't think your film looks konstig at all. I like it. I also like very much the set up you described for how you should view it. I think that is a good way to work with video and film in a exhibition, otherwise the film/video could end up with no real connection to anything. I like the idea of creating surroundings to the film.

Some of you know that I am currently working on a project that I call "Metamorphosis Syndrome", where I try to prove that young women are transforming into bears in a disease that is simular to melancholy. Right now I am working on a fictional legend about the "Bear Ballet". It is a ballet where the main character is a bear, and the ledgend says that the first one to dance it was a real bear. Here is a photograph that I took. I don't know how to show it in the end, I have contacted a choreographer to help me make the ballet. So may be I will perform it myself or ask som real dancer to do it... I have a lot of ideas but I don't know which one to trust...

And one more thing. I too like the idea of people not knowing which art piece was made by which artist (like Melanie described and Lily also found interesting), could we maybe come up with an idea on how to accomplish that for our show? Any ideas enyone?

Hello to you all!

Sorry, I have so much to do. Now i'm preparing things for three different shows. Thats why I'm presenting me here so late. So sorry about that.

In general I'm doing self-portraits and landscapes. Always a little bit on the melancholic side of life. Sometimes asking myself how love has to be or if gender can really be equally. The study of my physical body as a woman is an important part of my work, as well.

Here some Pictures...

i'm creating some ornaments right now. I'm showing you more as soon as possible.

Hugs from Switzerland,

Gabriella

ops...

I just wanted to say that I changed the colors of the blog, you can do this to if you want to. but you have to log in to my account, but you know which email and password to use! Enjoy!

/jorun

images of Pictura

Here are som pictures of the gallery Pictura! So that you will get an idea of how it looks!
/Jorun

getting blog going!

We need to get this blog going. The 20th of December we will know if we get the exhibition space for this spring. And which dates we will get it. But for now I think we shall asume that we will get it, and if we don't we will find another space to exhibit! So now I think we shall start what Melanie suggested; everyone will have to post what ever they are working on. And I suggest that we should have a deadline! By next weekend we all have to make a post! And Lily, since you already have shown something you may choose to post something else of interest! And since I have given this homework with a deadline and all, everyone else must also do so! So to sum up: by next weekend: post something that you are working on and create a task for everyone else to do! It could be a simple and little task. Is this OK for everyone? I just think that we should get started and be more active on the blog! (Even though we all have a lot to do I asume)...

/jorun