Project adjustments?

Today I received a second rejection letter, from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, for Accumulation #4. It seems important to the overall project to include these rejections, but I am rethinking the idea of not reproposing or redoing projects. For example, I have 4 applications out: if I get accepted to one I should be pretty happy, but then I have three failures that seem a bit glaring.

Part of the idea of tying these projects together was that they would help support each other in terms giving weight to individual projects. This might be a little misguided. So, should I retry rejected proposals elsewhere, under the same number, or under a new one? Either way it seems important to really think and write these proposals better, and maybe don't get too overzealous in trying to apply to too many things. Also, try not to put all my eggs in one basket, that basket being residencies and programs where others decide if I can do them- perhaps a book project or a web project are in order...

Good news too: Accumulation #1 is up! Images to be posted tomorrow.

Update, and pile photos

Still working to complete work for Accumulation #1, which is scheduled to go up May 29, 2005, here in Venice. I'll be writing more soon, until then, here is an image from the studio and some photos of piles in Rovereto.

Accumulation definition

n. (1) The act of gathering or amassing, as into a heap or pile. (2) The process of growing into a large amount or heap. (3) The amount that has accumulated or been accumulated. (4) An increase by natural growth of addition (accretion.) (5) several things grouped together or considered as a whole (collection, aggregation, assemblage.) (6) The purchase of a particular security throughout a period of time. For example, the accumulation of a substantial quantity of stock by a portfolio manager may take place over a period of several weeks or months in order to avoid driving up the price of the stock. (7) Increase or growth by addition especially when continuous or repeated. (8) An increase in the amount of a fund or property by the continuous addition to it of the income or interest it generates - to treat a stock dividend as principal when local law classifies it as incoem my be deemed an accumulation.

Pile Definitions

n. (1) A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. (syn. heap) (2) A large accumulation or quantity. (3) A funeral pyre. (4) A very parge building or complex of buildings.

v. (1) To place or lay in or as if in a pile or heap. (2) To heap something in abundance. (3) To form a heap or pile. (4) To load (something) with a heap or pile. (5) To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group (pile into a bus; pile out of a car.)

n. A heavy beam of timber, concrete or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.

n. A collection of objects laid on top of each other (heap, mound, cumulus)

syn. batch, mass, mess, muckle, slew, stack, wad, heap.

Acc03: no news IS good news

Rejection letter from Spare Room in Baltimore received today. I will have to rethink if I want to try this somewhere else, or develop the idea better, it was pretty weak.

Re: production v. consumption

From Meaghan Morris' "Banality in Cultural Studies"

Among [Mica Nava's] enabling theses–and they have been enabling–are these: consumers are not "cultural dopes," but active, critical users of mass culture; consumption practices cannot be derived from or reduced to a mirror of production; consumer practice is "far more than just economic activity: it is also about dreams and consolation, communication and confrontation, image and identity. Like sexuality, it consists of a multiplicity of fragmented and contradictory discourses."

I'm not now concerned to contest these theses. For the moment, I'll buy the whole lot. What I'm interested in is firstly, the sheer proliferation of the restatements, and secondly, the emergence in some of them of a restrictive definition of the ideal knowing subject of cultural studies."