Eero Yli-Vakkuri
Got the Artsi museum writing gig. I’ll make a 5 500 character text about Record Singers -group (1973– ) for an upcoming vinyl exhibition catalogue. The museum is planning to show the “Record Singers: ¾ – Johdanto ryhmän esitystaiteelliseen toimintaan.” documentary I made 2012. The writing fee is moderate but there is a fee for writing.
Making c-cassettes for the Ihme-days demo, preparing a 20min speak, baking and having a band rehearsal with Pietari.
Tampere Sokos Hotel Torni is has kitschy interior decor. They’ve combined raw concrete, naive illustrations of trains and pastel color panels shaped like the silhouette of the city. There is an ongoing art exhibition in the lobbies. The Tampere Artist Association has organized a selling event. Rooms are fitted with prints customers can buy. This room has one by Janne Laine. I have to ask if he’s had sales.
Working on a grant proposal for the Arts Promotion Center Finland. I calculated I have a 2-6% chance of getting a grant. My chances are further lowered as I got a 5 month project grant (8000€ -Insurance ~1200€ expenses) last year. They have a “fairness policy” which aims to distribute the funds evenly. The same artist is not likely to receive funding on consecutive years – No matter how good the project is and how well it has been received. This feels silly. When you get a project rolling they should push it further, but they cut your funding instead.
I’m re-using an old proposal we made for the Trans-Horse project. The Art Promotion Center guides applicants to apply for 1, 3 or 5 year projects. Which is why I’m making a 5 year project plan. I can apply for 1 and 3 year funding with the same paper.
What toggles how the brain samples information? Some data is clearly overdubbed and other re-written.
I think spam is a radar system of a sorts. It’s send through networks in intervals and where the areas where data gets clogged indicate the outlines of protected computer networks.
Default Comfort. The comfort of using a preset wifi ssid name, sitting at a cafe in the city center behind a computer which looks like the rest. Drinking coffee which taste you don’t have to evaluate. Default Core.
Puuuh. Made it. Out of twitter. Feeling free but I miss pictures. All I have is text. Entering Ekphrasis mode (As Pietari educated me). I have a e-mail newsletter people can sign up. If more than 10 people get on board I’ll start to sending them out 1-2 times a year.
Also.. Bought a Kaoss Pad 3 for 200€. Looking forward to learn how to work with samples live. Downloaded An adventure by Ella Kiviniemi, which has some nice quotes by urban rider Heikki Mikola. I’ll chop it into bits and trigger the samples from the pad. I imagine I can also use the KP3 for lectures.. In the past I’ve used horse-ambient samples from the computer to build an atmosphere for my talks. The KP3 gives me the possibility to control how my own voice is merged into the ambient soundscape. Saddly I don’t have time to learn how to use it before the Ihme-days events.
Changed eero.storijapan.net/blogfolio/blog to eero.storijapan.net/blogfolio/txt so that this site can be understood as “blog” and “txt” is left for official publications.
Tested the Smart-Splitter today. It works but does not feel rewarding.
Negotiating a Kaoss Pad 3 purchase. I have a chance to get a used older model for 200€. This would be the biggest investment I’ve made to music.
Working on the Ihme-days demo presentations. It’s slow but made a neat drawing of a c-tape.
Reading “In the Flow” by Boris Groys. We bought the e-book with a group and there are so plans to write a critique of it in some online magazine. The text Kylmälä, Salusjärvi & Ylikangas recently published feels nagging in relation to Groys, who celebrates the event fullness of the contemporary museum.
I don’t agree that “… art in flux is better documented than ever before, and the documentation is better preserved and distributed than traditional artworks”. Because even though people take photos and make videos no one is building an index. A video is not a documentation, it’s spam before someone goes trough the trouble of cataloging it. Cataloguing builds references and context.
If you refuse an “unpaid” gig, you can make a thing about your refusal. If you accept it, you get to do a thing. Every “I refused an unpaid gig” story is the same. Every thing is different.
Leaving twitter is an adult thing to do. It’s about dissolving into the internet, not clogging it with jokes. Time to take the flow more seriously.