I wish the school children and the mini golfers well in engaging in all of your future shows, VAG! The Kim Sooja show is really quite excellent, but you won't let me say why.
Her process of merging repetition and meditation in craft, performance, and video make my heart explode.
Embodying the labour of craft into everyday objects and situations
Intervening through what has been described as the emotional act of sewing
The repeating penetration of the needle
The quality of time passing and
Invisible women's labour
Sooja's works are spanning beyond thirty years
Spanning my entire life time
As consistent as breathing in
and out, fluctuating in form . . .
but the irony of mark making is lost upon us.
In the middle of writing down these thoughts beneath
The thirty lotus lanterns
Security told me I couldn't do that here.
I was not allowed to write inside the gallery, he said.
I said I was press. I need to make notes.
Standing his ground he said there are no pens allowed
Only pencils.
Like a school child
Which another security person then repeated to me
School groups are only permitted pencils
In case someone accidentally
Makes a mark.