things to note and an admonition

well you are basically printing money with tourism [especially with the environments that aotearoa/new zealand provides]

but how do you 'encounter' landscape - that's a thread in ian wedde's book 'the viewing platform' and its playing through the work we are progressing with presently

ed and helen may provide some answers there [and create currency at the same time...]

i'm interested to hear how the progression of the work is received

we will have both an online audience member and possibly one onsite - the former who was there from the scheduled start and the later who experienced the show as part of the media event at the great hall [at first remixed sound and visuals in a massive hall, then discovered on small screens and as part of an installation

this time we will be able to start the piece at the same point for both audiences and as always in this clean green place we will admonish them to

'take only photographs, leave only footprints'

imaginary space

An MA student at WSA, writes about how Nation States with heavily defined, regulated and guarded borders have strict criteria about who can be a citizen of their country. Whereas people, who migrate around the world for variety of reasons including persecution, make look back/across their 'own' country, perceiving that country as home, when the country does not/longer recognises that individual as citizen or 'belonging' to the national state.

This is of couese why the space of the internet is so precious and so important to remain unregularised, uncompartmentalised - free space as it were. With that in mind, I'd think every effort should be made to stop Ed & Helen colonisation any inch of cyberspace.

Can you own cyberspace? Access is controlled and limited, but ownership is illusory, fading like vapour trails from planes that 'write' messages in the sky. Or like the Etch-a-Sketch drawings that get shaken away.

If you can't own but can only occupy imaginary terriotiory of cyberspace for a while, what need for immigration?

Could we be thinking of using our space in a less terrestial way?

I like the notion of boundaries forming and dissolving.
Dissolve is strong action