10/08/2010

Last minute preparations and presentations. I spent the day mostly shooting some extra footage that I could not get that day as well as helping Jennida get different stations and elements set up. We have several places where TV screens are looping visuals taken from the different places hidden within Elsewhere and different places where amps, microphones and recorders have been places for tomorrow’s event. We have to be content that most of the elements of our outreach will be fulfilled by number of facilitators we have contacted and let the rest play out though word of mouth and passerbyers.
We met Clement Mallory yesterday who is a really interesting character. Very enthusiastic and talented. Through talking to him he put us in touch with Invisible, another Greensboro product whom we had tried to contact but to no avail. It turns out he is friends with them and had their telephone numbers. The only contact I could find on the web apparently was incorrect. Again, this web of interconnectivity draws tight.
Tonight’s meal was homemade pizza with an assortment of vegetarian option…as always, but was really good. After dinner we had a group photo and began our presentations. It was really interesting to hear what everyone had been involved in the past. The only inconvenient issue was that it took so long to get started that everyone was tired by the time it started. It wasn’t clear just how informal this presentation was supposed to be and I think in the end there was not much discussion because of this. Some people from the Greensboro community joined us and again it was an issue of the formality. I don’t think it was presented as a talk that community members would attend and therefore such preparations were not made. Not that many guests showed up but I think that happenings such as this could have the occasion to bring in many more guests and treat it as such the formal presentation that would have been taken more seriously and inspired more conversation. For us the conversation took place during other times, the talk served as a communal time to share images.