Bring Back The Blogs!

by Ruth Barker, 21 Feb 2011

Hello,

Good news people: The blogs are (coming) back!

I got news from our web developer today that the technical updates carried out on the site recently mean that the PAR+RS blogs (which you may recall have been hidden since last April because of concerns regarding copyright) are ready to go Live again.

I’ve written to everyone who has kept a PAR+RS blog in the past, to let them know and to ask each of them to follow a link that will allow their own blog to be made live again. So fingers crossed that over the next few days we should see some of the Blogs reappearing.

I’m really pleased about this. The logs are an essential way of keeping up to date with current projects, but they’re also a great way to be able to look back on a project’s development. I know that when I’ve been involved in any public work, the temptation after it has finished has been to mentally edit the narrative of the piece – to encourage the conclusion to meet the original intention. Blogs can be a really interesting counterpoint to that as they record the experiential improvisations that happen along the way.

This is also then, a good opportunity to extend an invitation to anyone who is involved (as a commissioner, an artist, a team member, participant, artist, project manager, etc etc) in a project at the moment. Would you like to keep a blog for us? Drop me a line at the usual address if so.

More later,

R.

STOP PRESS: Just heard about this project which had somehow passed me by. Is anyone planning to attend the event at Anatomy Theatre and Museum at King’s College, London (May 20th and 21st, 2011)? If so please let us know. There could be some money available to pay your expenses if you’re willing to write up a short account in return.