Aaaaaaah, too much to say. In a large nut shell: I was alerted by someone in the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol about the National Trusts's call for artists for Glastonbury festival 2010. I called Helen Bentley because I like working with her: she has bouts of energy, hands on approach, a twinkley cheeky resourcefulness and plenty of oomph under her belt (not in that way) and NO VOLUME CONTROL! I talked through some of the themes I was exploring at the time and she was game.
Back in April we met up with the lovely Colette and Jess from NT at Watershed to do a braindump and they were as excited as us. Proposal went in, we pitched, several other artists pitched - we WON!
There was a very short turnaround on all of this and we had somehow managed to go from some loose themes to a week later with nearly fully shaped ideas. At this stage we had already rounded up some of our finest contacts to check some of the feasibility and financing and one of those guys was Ben Irwin. Ben is an exceptionally skilled carpenter, sculpturer, designer and builder and several other amazing things. He's currently working with the Invisible Circus on some of their highly complex sets and installations . And now he is ours ;-) Ben has put together a crew of artist builders and carpenters who all work with the Invisible Circus, Brody and Will K.
I am not going to write up the tedious process and nightmarish admin involved with trying to get certain types of insurance and a business bank account: done.
So what are we doing? Well, that would be telling. Let's just say that we are creating an Outside Inn in a really busy spot at the festival near the Bandstand and Cider Bus. The Guardian's take on it is this (even though we feel that it does not sound that great compared with what we are producing). http://www.guardian.co.uk/
What we can reveal is that we are designing and delivering everything for the inside of a beautiful canvas double geo dome (yes, we are filling 1000m2 with stuff and activities) with the help of an increasing number of people. We only had official sign-off on 5 May 2010 and the check won't clear until 13 May so the pressure is on! Most people think that we are absolutely mad for doing this, but we are.
Hopefully we will keep up the blogging from now on and post lots of pictures of process and trial and error etc. until we have finished!
xx V
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