bog jisms at tina

many thanks to mim and danny for the photos of our log rhythm session at tina in october.

who we are(n’t)

[posted by nick]

i only realised yesterday that i owed the tina organisers an email with bio’s and technical requirements for tina, etc. i had to send the email off today since it was the (second) deadline. consequently, i cobbled together a group biography for dkdc. i post it here to share, and also to gauge levels of (dis)satisfaction:

dkdc is a loosely formed group of social and creative friends who met, for the most part, through studying at the University of Technology, Sydney. dkdc grew out of the occasional performance nights held at UTS in 2005 & 2006, and tended naturally toward diversity, collaboration and experimentation. The majority of the group are trained as writers, who in varying ways and for varying reasons are interested in ways of writing that are open, social and collaborative rather than isolated and solitary. This openness aims to be as inclusive of other creative practices as possible, so as well as writers, the group includes a sound artist, a dancer, a designer, a filmmaker, a programmer and a musician.

collaborative writing

nic low, one of the organisers of tina, is calling for a guest to speak on a panel about collaborative writing. is anyone interested? aden? (email him on nic[at]dislocated[dot]org)

updates from the mazzaville meeting, thursday

(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.