One day, sculpture

There's an article in this week's Listener about 'One Day Sculpture', a 'cumulative series of place-responsive sculptures – each of which will exist within the public domain for no more than a 24-hour period' which, collectively, will 'for the first time, draw together nine of New Zealand’s principal contemporary art initiatives to interrogate key issues in ephemeral and place-sensitive sculptural practice.' (from the Litmus website)

I wish the project all the best. And a bit of MSM coverage like this is a good thing. But when the lynch pin of the project is engaging the public, why not drip feed them a little more information?

Clare Doherty, the curatorial director of 'One Day Sculpture', hasn't updated her blog since May 2007, and the latest news available on the Litmus website is from the same time, announcing that a 'significant group of New Zealand curators will convene in Muenster, Germany, next month' to discuss the project with Doherty.

To beat my blogging drum to a slightly different tune: if you're going to blog, or have online news, keep it up to date! Give us a reason to come back. Hell, we might even spread the news a little. Or turn up on the day ...

National tour

Curator and writer Clare Doherty, Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Bristol University of West England, is currently in New Zealand as the Massey University School of Fine Arts inaugural Curatorial Fellow. Clare is here as part of the School's Litmus project - which, to be honest, is pretty hard to explain, so please just refer to 'About Us' on their website:

Litmus website

Clare's residency/project has two phases; her current national tour of art spaces and artists' studios and series of public talks, and a yet-to-be-defined 'major programme of events' in 2008.

Clare is blogging her time in New Zealand. So far, so innocuous, but you never know ...

Clare Doherty's blog