Our January intensive, Mishandles Archives, was put on by Alissandra Cianetti, a London based curator, and artist Tara Fatehi.  Fatehi created an archive of family photographs by taking one family photograph each day and putting them each in a public space, then rephotographing it.  She then created a dance around her feelings that day.  She would write the text of what she would do, the place, the temperature and the # of the series.  Fatehi would then leave the photo and a note with contact information.  She was committed to the repetition of this work.  

Questions that arose for me were:

1-How do I make art full-time and afford to live?

2-How do I get my work seen by gallerists and curators?

3-Who exhibits installation work?

4-How does me making my work affect how I see differently and affect my mind and body?

5-Could I perhaps get funding from an Arts Council Grant?

What I was inspired to make after this presentation was: Something with family photographs, documenting, with the help of my mother, all the people in the photographs.  What could I create with all of them? Could I scan them and make an album or cut up the images after they are scanned and printed and make a collage of different generations of people mixed up together?

Substack was suggested as a place to use as a creative journal and for documentation.  

Performance artist Tehching Hsieh was mentioned.