Saturday, 4 September 2010

What now? The monkeys have a Cabinet Meeting

We have started on the monkey project but we need to move to action say the monkeys.
We need to become comfortable in our skins.
Let the metamorphosis begin.....

Sheila Monkey
"Remember I heard Mark Wallander talk of his experiences as a bear when I saw him in Edinburgh. On reflection it worries me a bit because just in the first few hours of his morphing into being a bear in Berlin he was so hot the sweat ran down his face and he couldn't see and kept bumping into walls. He had told folk that at no cost could/should they help him out of his suit until the morning. He then spent a long night fruitlessly pleading with the guy who was recording him to leat  him out! AND despite modifications it wasnt till the fourth night, I think, he was able to bear (sorry bout the pun) it!
Caitlin Monkey
"Oh Oh...I think we need to practice being monkeys, prepare, get under the skin of it. Don't you?"
Sheila Monkey
"Yar we need to get a feeling about the process that the transformation to being will have on us...and record this...as we want to be good monkeys when it come to our events and performances."
Caitlin Monkey
" And we need to do it in public but not in public dont we? We need to make it real."
Sheila Monkey
"I see the crative lab at the CCA is asking for proposals should we apply?"
Caitlin Monkey
"Definitely..we could work up to spending a day and an overnight or two as monkeys A day ( or two and maybe a night or two...blah blah blah) in the skin of a monkey"
Sheila Monkey
" Fab monkey lets do it gather things we will need to make our exhibition work and put these moments in our cabinet ...like a bottom drawer! Remember Mark Wallinger did suggest that everyone should be an animal at least once in their lives!"