Sent in Artists Tasks

Yesterday I sent this text:

Dear artist, for project- trying to be artist - can you text me a daily action/ task/ routine, that a cliche of an artist does. I will do it tomorrow. Thanks
Sadie

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Replies

Ansuman Biswas 'watch paint dry'

Sam Hacking 'Eh?! I don't understand that text'.

Kate Spence 1. 'Be late for everything and litter your conversations with quotes from Sartre' 2. 'Paint a watercolour landscape'

Nataniel Pimlott 'Look at the sky whistfully'

Rena 'Meditation and encouraging a child you didn't know before!'

Zoe 'Paint something whilst being whimsical. Oh and wear clothes full of (accidental) paint marks.'

Ram 'Scrabble when you talk on the phone'.

Priya Mistry 'Not a cliche, take time to; Day Dream. I'd commit 25% of your awake time to imagining all manner of fantastical things and sexy possibilities.

Priya 'Wake up. Look out the window. Meditate and write the first bits of thought of the morning, the note book has to be special in someway... Reflect on this writing in years to come.'

Lee 'Makes tea and long lists of tasks often featuring doodles using an inky black pen (looks more sophisticated)

Una Hamilton 'Sits in their studio staring at the wall!'

Louise Ashcroft 'Drink Absinthe. Cut off your ear. Destroy your work in a fit of rage. Visit prostitutes who you also paint pictures of, wear a beret, break rules, avoid cliches...'

Harriet Jones 'Wear a paintbrush in your hair'

Leonora Anstrup ' write morning pages, three full A4 size papers write down anything thats on your mind no censure , first thing in the morning.'
Thursday 2.28 pm

Received very long text message;

Dear Sadie, tis Sara Zaltash here,
I am somewhere with hardly any internet and I wanted to give you an artist task… Please write an application for a residency. The residency can be any sort that you like, in any location.
An ideal, a fiction, a nightmare, it’s up to you! Select location, theme, funding profile and duration of the residency and write the following as if you are applying to the residency: artist bio (500 words max), intention while at the residency (500 words max), what you hope to contribute to the everyday life of the residency (500 words max). Please provide up to 5 pieces of documentation about your practice. The deadline is the end of your week as an artist. Let me know if you got ahead with it!
Sara

Bean "drink lots of coffee" 
Emails;

1. Andre Verissimo:
 wake up, have two sips of a glass of warm water. 
             then stand in a place facing outside, preferably towards the sun (even if cloudy)
             -shake ur body gently as if listening to slow tecno- 2 min
             -rotate both arms in full circle- going up breath in, going down breath out- 10 times
             -move your arms slowly as if wings of a bird- going up breath in (nose) going down breath out (mouth). 
             -seat down in silence breathing slowly              
In all of them when u breath in first fell up lower lungs, as if filling up ur tummy and then upper chest.

Jasmine:
 I would suggest would be writing lots of lists and creating an evolving manifesto 

Gerald:
For one morning I want you to go swimming, until lunch time. Then after lunch I want you to make a piece of work from your experience of swimming in a medium of your choice. You might also want to record things in situ for use during this time.
You have until the end of the day to make something or a series of outcomes. Then during the morning of the next day go through your work and decide on your strongest piece. Write down why it is strong and if you have made any that you are not pleased with, destroy them as you please (send them to people etc). Spend no more than 1-2 hours on this task.  


Louise Wilson
some sort of procrastination... for example...putting socks into pairs
 From a medium-to-high building, look out of a window and watch for a bird in flight. 
Note where it lands and then go to that place. 
(This idea first appeared in Wrights & Sites, An Exeter Mis-Guide. The bird I saw was spotted from a Debenhams shop window. It was a seagull and it took me to an old castle tower)

Happy ARTIST Day, Simon Persighetti




Walk for an hour, clear your head and start again.

Tweets

Aida; tidy up the studio before I start to work in the morning! Other wise watch a little bit of day time TV

Karolin; stare at a blank page

Loopart [Luisa Spina] 1. welsh whiskey, smoked rolled tobacco, sit in silence, start with pencil

2. Do a before and after image, good to see how the work changes
4h
procrastinating
lie on the floor for 40 minutes and think about nothing, just be a slug.

19 Sep
have a coffee. Then have another coffee while tweeting that you are having a coffee?

19 Sep
I like the snickers, nice touch. Can take 15 mins to consume with a newspaper, any date will do, just needs to be free.
  1. 22m
    I used 2 do that but couldn't get 2 sleep at night, so limit it to 2 cups in the morn !
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  2. 2h
    draw jill a picture and post it to her!
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  3. 3h
    go for an aimless walk
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  4. 3h
    Listen to your favourite album from start to finish.
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  5. 3h
    Choose a 1-2 min youtube video, record, reenact and upload.
20 Sep
Go on the picket line at firefighters strike this week and make a placard "Define fit Boris" the word Boris framed on a pig

20 Sep
This Wednesday 25th Between 12-4pm you can follow here
Artist routine: Endless submissions... 19 Sep
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Sent in after one-day project for Day 4;

Keep and dry every tea bag you use and write a few words in memory of the conversations or thoughts you had when drinking your tea and attach it to the teabag, display teabags from time to time as you like or keep them in a secret collection. 

[Zierle & Carter - Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter]



Sit eat drink tea and think
Buy yummy food and big cookies
to fuel the art making process and get all your materials out.

Laura Riach




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