Version Fest is coming up in Chicago. We will be working with other artist groups to install a sculpture in some mansion or gigantic house. Haven’t seen the space or the warehouse where the things to be built with are staying, but I have a feeling that an assembled piece could be in the works. I have been wanting to do a larger scale project beyond just writing about larger scale projects. That’s been a while in the making. Back to Chicago though, there is another show that will display proposals. I am curious about it, because so much dialogue will take place. That could be amazing. I am really looking forward to working with artists not based in NYC. Hang out with people I hope live somewhere in where they can breathe every once in a while.

Also, we will be putting up several dozen Dadaist-type drawings. They are based on associative writing/drawing games faintly related to Exquisite Corpse. Phrases get written and drawings occur in response to the writing, which then responds to the drawing. The experience creates mixes of non-sequiturs, socially bizarre situations, subconscious hemoglobins, Raymond Pettibone/graphic novels with disjointed narratives, absurdist stuff, and other thingies. Some of the writing/drawings are crass, low-fi punk rock. All of them are very cryptic, kind of dark, a few are guffaw-type funny.

There is also a show for a conceptual piece outside of Atlanta. Somehow have to find a way to get there. Sketches soon to scan in. So far, a pagan death metal witch race is the big idea. Contestants will run out of a tent through a spiraling race course made of lamps, flags, or whatever kind of stuff can be found. I’ve seen a few of Mark Dion’s shows, which I would never have the patience or obsessive gathering skills to pull off, but the idea of assembling objects of related significance or encoded meaning sounds interesting and like a summer project to treat boredom with ocd.