Bedtime Story Conservatory 42 07/05/2020

Hello everyone,

Today i've been thinking about this project and what it means to me and why I am enjoying doing it. Maybe it's because it feels like im connecting with you in some way, and maybe it's because in doing this every day, I am automatically and unconsciously curating a sort of information bank, within which arrows point to and link various pieces of information inside the material I am sending to you. 

I find comfort in this, in that I do not have to take FULL responsibility for my trajectory, and I suppose this can be applied to many aspects of simply existing.

Regardless of what this is and what it means to ME, you who are receiving this email are the integral node receiving this information, without which it would feel like I was playing catch with myself. Thank you, you are wonderful. 

Today's reading follows on from all of this, two excerpts from Ilya Kabakov's The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away 1977. Ilya Kabakov is an American-Russian conceptual artist, working in Moscow between the 50's and 80's, and is now based in Long Island. 

The story involves the neighbours of a man finding within his apartment huge masses of various bound paperwork. The two writings I am reading are two manuscripts Uncle Misha, one of the neighbours, finds within the apartment. I think this text resonates with this project in some way, as well as with this moment in time which forces us to constantly be around our things, forming new relationships with them as now essential objects of our everyday existences. 

The song attached to the recording is Underworld 1995 by Born Slippy, famously part of the soundtrack for Trainspotting 1996.

Link to the reading- 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eRYsbog1Lh4iqLHa0lJgk1ZT9HkzPlHq

Link to all previous readings-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t4v042zpGgwI7KN6_ST_tAthqm63J22V

Warm wishes, with love,

Sam

Untitled 1968, Ilya Kabakov, Colored pencil and pencil on paper on paper, 14 x 17.8 cm