updates from the mazzaville meeting, thursday
June 4, 2007
(an abridged minutes)
1: unscrunched
the planning for the online archive & electronic exhibition herein known as ‘unscrunched’ is going well. nick, tim, fred & astrid are acting as editors at this point, and so far peter minter, derek motion, ben byrne, dan disney, shannon o’neill & others have committed to contributing critical, poetic, sound & theory stuff. have a think about what stuff you might have already hanging around (theses, etc) and tweak it as you please. at this stage we are looking at an october launch of the site at tina — there will be one major ‘launch’ event at the festival that we can lurk into.
we need to organise the arhitectural & aesthetic bits. we were wary of asking pâtè, at the risk of him exploding with projects, so it was suggested that we might ask tim rox to be involved — with the possibility of us leaching funding from uts or having a fundraiser in order to pay him. (we still need to ask him though … ) also, we need to come up with a new name. unscrunched was its name in its first incarnation, and everyone seems to agree it ought to be changed … i hereby call a competition in the comments space for a new name. winner gets a mint patty.
2: flying machine
the flying machine is happening … a wordstring from fred has been used by briohny, miri and is currently with daz. please keep an eye out for it in your email soon — nick has the order of people and is distributing accordingly. when you receive it, there will be a line, phrase, image or smudge which is to be used as an entry point into your work. they should all be a4 size, too.
intially, the pieces will be photocopied into slapdash zines, with the possibility of an online version on unscrunched.
3: tina
again to tina — one of the directors has been in contact with nick, and is keen to get dkdc involved in some capacity. we talked about a few of the projects abuzz, and we decided that we would be interested in the following events:
/ pirate radio broadcasts of sound pieces from deviously-placed, waterproof stereos around newcastle (email nick if you have ideas or pieces ready to go, and we’ll get together a playlist)
/ launch of *unscrunched* (see above)
/ exhibition of the flying machine. apparently, there is going to be shopfront space which will be available for exhibiting pieces. smith had the grand idea of printing a version of the flying machine on a continous roll of brown packaging paper (which he can do at his work) and exhibiting the work for a short time.
