- 06 December, 2018
- Linda Brogan
You will not believe who Ivan stops the flow of discussion to big up as someone we should have a life-size cardboard copy of in the Reno Afterlife. The man is a cunt.
You will not believe who Ivan stops the flow of discussion to big up as someone we should have a life-size cardboard copy of in the Reno Afterlife. The man is a cunt.
We listen to each other digest our Whitworth Art–Reno concept. Look out for Dave Trigg at the end. A tiny movement he orchestrates would indeed conjure a Reno afterlife.
Rectangle tables? Round tables? What colour? What lit the Reno? Help us remember. To conjure a tomb that evokes our culture with our artefacts.
We're gonna work backwards from the concept. We use relevant photos to understand the concept. Do not fuck with me when I am trying to tell you about the fucking concept.
Corinne’s funeral, yesterday, reminded me: like her body, the Whitworth and the artistic concept we are devising in this video are only a shell to house our stories.
Imagine what it was really like in the 1950s when our white mams met our black dads, and we were born, cos it persisted right into the 70s. Here's proof.
Nikita takes us to see William Kentridge's 'Thick Time' the reproduction of a Paris hotel room where Trotsky lived when his speech was banned. The banned speech plays in a 'window'. Trotsky's political views are being given voice today. It feeds the design ideas we've just manifest.
We're gonna transform our @WhitworthArt gallery into a workshop. We're gonna transform that into the Reno. We're gonna transform ourselves along the way. You're watching both transformations. Each night is a step with only our blind faith leading the way.
The Reno 12 enter our space, currently occupied with an Alice Keppel exhibit, to weigh up how it will work as a workspace where we conceive, design, plan, and build our Reno exhibition.
After we’d meticulously choose the chairs we will have in our workshop once we’ve taken over our space, [laughing], and we’d looked at our space, and then came back and blasted down our ideas on paper, and gone down for our coffee, and didn’t received any cake, nearly lost the plot, Nikita took us into…
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