Manchester…

Heather and I decided to go somewhere… it ended up being Manchester!

As it was pretty much unplanned and we had done almost no research we visited many empty gallery spaces as well as a few which were showing.

It was so unplanned I managed to forget to lift my camera, never normally go anywhere without it and its definitly the first time I left Edinburgh without it, who know you could miss it so much! The few photos in this post are from the gallery websites.

We both had an amazing time though, never stopped laughing and the sun was shining the whole time!

Shows we did see:

PICTURE THIS

Some amazing images.

CITY AS GYMNASIUM

I liked this show, nothing amazing but it was all worth seeing.

Both @ CUBE : Centre for the Urban Built Environment.

PRACTICAL TRUTHS

I enjoyed the collaboration between Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan ‘ The Reapers’ but other than that I was not massively impressed with this show at Castlefield Gallery

Next was, I think, both of our favourites

BIRDHEAD

Ji Weiyu and Song Tao

‘My Beautiful Zhang Jiang’

A beautiful film. A woman falls asleep and is carried throughout the city by a number of people. Easy carrying the woman until they are tired and then silently passing her on to the next available person who immediately stops in their path and takes their turn to carry the sleeping woman. She eventually wakes up on the lap of a teenage boy on a train. They exchange a few silent words.

This was at the Chinese Art Centre

Another Chinese artist was in residence, Yingmei Duan, her open studio is in November so she told us we should come back down. She gave us her card.

The empty galleries were Cornerhouse, Whitworth and the mysterious International 3. Mysterious because it was in the wrong place on the Art Update map and we were wandering around the one area for quite some time before we called and found out it was bout 100m up the road but no show was on at the time! The guy who worked there told us to come say hello anyway so we did, the space was very cool!

We went to the Temple, a pub in a converted public toilet. Its a gorgeous wee place. The sun came in through the windows and lit up the mould on the walls and the fresh flowers sitting in the old beer bottles! Great music from the jukebox.

We went to get something to eat before the train, but as we went to order we realised the time and had lost 40 minutes somewhere. No chilli and chocolate burger then! The train back to Edinburgh was the LONGEST journey ever. 3 hours 22 minutes seemed like a lifetime!!

Nat

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It has been a while..

Well I have been ignoring this blog for some time now so I will update you on some things…

I got further hooked on printing errors.

I got to Dundee when the DCA was showing.

I went to London, saw some art and some other cool things.

I made a manifesto consisting of a thunderstorm trapped in a wall.

I did a ‘residency’ project in Dalkeith Country Park.

I went on a little trip around Split, Mostar and Sarajevo and ended up at the Venice Biennale… which was awesome!

Had a dream in Mostar in which I woke up to a huge panda sitting on the floor beside my bed and then I ‘dosed off’ again. I remember it nodding.

I’m finding Edinburgh pretty boring at the moment.

I have been doing more things with sugar but have not photographed anything yet.

I am interested in a lot of things at the moment, none of which I can explain very well.

I am off to the cinema tonight.

May go to London this week.

Back at uni in just over a week!

More on all of this later I guess…

Nat

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