Plausible Artworlds

Not sure this is the right place for this post, possibly... Feel free to move it if not. Anyway, here goes:

One thing that came up recently in our discussions here, and also in Philly actually, and during some Skype conversation after the planning meeting, is the question of how we can sustain the sense of collective energy that in many ways we felt materialized during our time at Basekamp. This depends on a great many things, I suppose, but one thing that we feel would help, as trivial as it may seem, would be to keep a kind of social or convivial atmosphere between us. This would, perhaps, also help introducing the project – and the different groups and collectives taking part – to those of us that couldn’t actually join us physically in Philly.

One suggestion that came up in a recent discussion, is that we’d organize something like Skype based dinner parties; possibly with the inclusion of a visual dimension either using photographs or video streams. Of course, this is not something that all of us would have to take part in at all times. It could be two of us, or three or four, in each session, and we could do it repeatedly as a kind of keep in touch practice, on a kind of informal and spontaneous basis.

If anybody is interested, or have any other suggestions, we’d be into doing this fairly soon, just as a way to get started doing something at least remotely practical (in a kind of roundabout sense, I know…). And also to catch up with people, of course!