yoke and zoom

26th June 2008. Residency day 23

This our our 3rd day working on it this week, we are going to put in extra days until it is ready for the tea party. Produced a user manual for the cottage.

The cottage seems to be coming on really slowly, inside the walls are still not constructed, we still have to make a flower box, we still have beams to make and the roof to perfect. We have bought items for the cottages users.

This project has taken alot more work than i expected and we really wanted more time to think about our work- instead it has become mainly focused on production. I am really pleased that the caravan has been reconstructed in the open public space of the gallery foyer. It is really interesting to have actually brought this practice of caravan reconstruction into our work as yoke and zoom, previously it was very separate to our practice as artists.

As the residency has developed we have become less concerned with the fact that we are working in a very visible environment. Often the barriers are up- if we are using power tools or making a mess-

Sometimes, i find my self sat inside the cottage, working on something- like putting up the curtains, and someone looking in catches my eye- that is odd because i am not a performance artist and there is an awareness can you are working in a performative way.

It is like living in a very public environment in a protected space.

There is anticipation that something is being created that is emerging from the private to the public realm, as on the days of the tea party the cottage will itself become a public space.