Silence & Praktika

by Alex Hetherington, 24 Mar 2008

I have been in New York for a little while now and returned just last week before heading to Deveron Arts with Janie to attend the PRAKTIKA workshops and seminar organized by David Harding, Rosie Gibson and Deveron. More information on the attending artists and their projects can be found on Deveron’s web site. The overall feeling right now is jet-lag and art exhaustion. It’s difficult to know how to articulate all the recent experiences and the conclusion of the seminar. I hope to write more about this here. I realize how much some of the projects make me angry and I want to really consider why this is so and want this Blog to be the place to articulate this since I feel it is the best vehicle to open up the discussions PRAKTIKA commenced. They are publishing later so it will be good to see how this works out.

New York was brilliant and I have to thank my friend Carrie Urbanic for her hospitality and time. I saw more exhibitions than I can describe here but some reviews will be added to a more appropriate vehicle online: AN unedited, for instance. I have to say though the Catherine Sullivan show at Metro Pictures was without a doubt the most amazingly conceived and presented work in all of Manhattan.

I am archived to death and interviewed some interesting artists. (In New York).

Everything now is in sharp relief. (At Falkirk.) The ground has changed and I think it is fair to say that things here are proving more and more difficult for me. I wonder how here we begin to discuss, in this vehicle, how projects are sustained, have continuity, have reason, approach opportunity, deliver?

I never want to underestimate what we are undertaking or be flippant about it; but I need to ask fundamental questions here about what we think we are doing?

Clearly my mind in still in Manhattan.

http://www.deveron-arts.com/wb/pages/projects/praktika.php