I have an online alarm that promised to wake me up with the sound of a rooster, since I lent my phone to someone and we have to be on the bus at 9am for the five hour drive to Vilnius. Then it's Inter-Format Symposium, Game On!

Fabulous experimental sauna : sixth variation (mobile) last night - it's the cocktail party sauna, fitted ten people when I was in there.

Ok that's all for now just a quick hello and bittersweet goodbye - going to be different when we get back. Then again I guess you gotta keep rollin' with the waves, baby!

Realised that some of my days are mixed up in the diary but that's kind of reflecting the experience so I leave it - already having messed with time once, don't wanna risk creating a gap in the continuum... maybe it was the steampunk sauna :)

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Seven hours later back in the city - and immediately reminded of the 'hierarchy' implicit in the role of 'curator' (although equally that of initiating and fund-raising for the project) by being given a single room (without having asked) and it being on the 4th floor while two of my colleagues are in a triple on the second. Is that compromising the aim of 'blurring the boundaries between artists/curators/researchers?' After that long on a bus I'm taking all the peace and comfort I can get - but you know, 'it's lonely at the top,' maybe some company would be nice - I guess the key is to have the option and be able to exercise your own choice in the matter.

It's kind of a small thing and then again kind of important. In terms of 'living' the ideals that you talk about. I find that having been allocated a certain position of one kind instead of another and working within a particular framework means that any idealism is already deeply compromised, trying to make work as a creator and producer is another layer of complexity and in the end I'm more human than 'curator' and it still doesn't really fit who I am or how I live. As purely an 'artist' I would accept gracefully without any conflict - because everyone knows artist can be divas. (Lord knows I'm one)

:)

Whatever, it's a nice room, there's a view of the cathedral, I'm not gonna be over-sensitive.

Lord knows the wheel of fortune keeps on spinning and it's only a short ride at the 'top'...

Too much work I should be doing to keep on this thread and way too few synapses firing.