www.vvgroup-falkirk.org

by Alex Hetherington, 7 Sep 2008

Hi chums. The web site for Village Voice edition 3 online will be live soon. The address is www.vvgroup-falkirk.org and currently has one of those annoying hold pages which say things like “under construction” or “come back soon”, so there’s another two minutes of my life I won’t get back soon.

We are all talked out with presentations at the Park Gallery and at Changing Room, Stirling. I take down the show tomorrow and have in mind to photograph its dismantling, I see the nylon and tape becoming quite an ugly sculptural form as its torn, like a skin, from the space. Also it was great to meet Lewis Holleran and his fantastic tattoo; i am now inspired to become heavily inked. I wonder about all the tattoo parlors in Falkirk, (there’s like 6 on the main street, “just off for the groceries, the pension and a huge aztec/celtic insignia darling”), how do they make a living?

We progress with the next editions of the paper. And I am continuing my obsession with this process of giving people’s memories back to them, distorted, shifted through our interpretation. He-who-shall-remain-nameless, (janie you’ll know who I mean) comments have been bugging me this past week and I am investigating the history of art made by committee. Komar and Melamid spring to mind.

On the more personal promotion front, shotgun magazine run by Joseph del Pesco in SF to reprint the Yerba Buena review: www.shotgun-review.com

So fall has arrived, and we are generally facing the final stages of the project.

Apparently there’s an acid house revival going on at the moment. Just thought you should know. So we may finish this with an illegal rave and guest appearances by Altern 8, Baby Ford (oochie koochie), Fast Eddie et al.