On the Streets PART 2 and other things

I won’t bang on about this too much again…i just wanted to finish off that On the Streets update by enthusing about the fact that we are inviting Jeanne van Heeswijk to work on a durational project (a few years anyway) in Anfield with the young people and with the area. I suppose the project that first drew our attention to her and the potentials of what she could do for Anfield was The Blue House (if you don’t know it already LOOK!) but looking at her website she has been working on many projects since

http://www.jeanneworks.net/

Some artists CV’s are just a bit mind blowing…..Jeanne’s is one of them…(Sometimes it’s so hard to think ‘oh yes, you do wonderful things im so happy for you’ rather than ‘I’m so jealous i would quite like to kill you and steal your identity’ …. i really hope she doesn’t read that before i meet her)

I won’t say too much more about that as we are still waiting for her final proposals.

Last night i went to see Ian Whittlesea talk at JMU. He didn’t inspire me too much with his own work but he talked a lot about more recent projects he’s been doing with Judo and his new translation of Yves Klein’s book he wrote on the principles of Judo…
I didn’t know the following things:

That Yves Klein convinced his parents to pay for him to spend two years in Japan studying Judo.

That he then went on, on his return to the USA, to open a Judo School of his own.

That the red star stamp on the back of his paintings is the emblem for the Judo school he set up.

http://www.yveskleinarchives.org/documents/bio_content_us.html

Whittlesea also mentioned a new little gallery project in London called the Ledge Project which seems very nice.

http://ledgeproject.org/

Maybe tomorrow i will go to see the opening of the Carlos Amorales show in Manchester, he is designing the Wolves you can see starting to appear on the website but Manchester is so very far away so maybe i will just have a bath instead.

Oh and I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, sorry Paddy and Roxy who sent me this picture ‘for your blog’

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Apparently it is a collaborate piece entitled The Hair Rat made by Dan, Penny and Emily..er……thanks!

Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould are in Linz (i think they still are, perhaps they are back already) sent off on exchange by us. I think there must be more Liverpool artists in Linz at the moment than there is in Liverpool.

Here is a link to their blog anyways, enjoy:

TopiaGould.wordpress.com

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