Thursday Day 19

Melbourne again and this time a set of meetings with galleries. I pitched the piece to Suzanne Davies at RMIT Gallery who was interested in the sustainability issues as part of a larger show-there is a group at RMIT working on curating something along similar lines. She has lent me the catalogue of a huge show on gold from a few years back with some very interesting scholarship on the goldfields in the mid-nineteenth century

Then met up with Mike Stubbs at ACMI who is on his last few days there as director before taking a Professorship in Liverpool and running FACT. He thought we might make the Mobile Audience into a co-curated show at both FACT and ACMI-but the problem is one of capturing the external evanescent experience of the locative in a gallery context. It will need careful thought.

A trip up the Yarra River learning the value of riverside properties and how much gas is wasted burning giant torches outside the mega Crown Casino. On to Jon and Jules and a blaze of nephew and nieces-I was babysitting while they dashed of to see Dylan Moran live-Jules is off to the UK tomorrow for a week , so all a bit hectic.