on the 13th we > You, Miss Pi and omi are going to Biella to have a meeting with Michelangelo regarding the big cittadellarte show in the M HKA ..we're a good team..in some hours we find first ideas how to translate the very complex content of cittadellarte into the M HKAdellartespaces.. on the 16th Ronald, a curator from the M HKA and our co-curator in this case is comming to life and work with us for a weekend! big weekend!..in only one day we can decide together with Michelangelo the whole structure and basic desicions for the catalogue/book! Ronald isn't it a pleasure to work together? the show opens the 4th of October..why don't you drop in? see you soon in Antwerp Ronald! 40Kb next days..we're bringing all new generated date from the last Malex-week into some internal papers and prepare our trip to Antwerp..Miss Pi, Topo, You and omi want to go there in order to get a feeling for the spaces, meet the house technicians, the designer who does the catalogue.. Michelangelo and Francesco, the man who runs the Uffizi for economy, production and work in cittadellarte, also will come! and Nico Dockx we might can meet too! after omi lets Dani know that Stefan is open to come to Sevilla if we pay at least his flight and hotel Dani sends an image..he still is shining!: 43Kb and a sketch for a new music he's playing with..he's started to mix this kind of flamenco-moaning with his kind of lovesongs.. may we link this piece here Dani? shit > the israelian police doesn't give the permission to do the balloon installation! too dangerous...a balloon could fly away and clash with the turbine of an aircraft..okay, we can't do it as fast as we thought, lets go on trying! but what we do now? after sleeping it over we decide to also do a workshop in Jerusalem..to introduce c a l c and the project for mamila p°°l and then opening the ideas of geografia affettiva.. it would be great to have also a middle east platform on g.a's worldmap!..right from the beginning.. eVa sends some images from Sevilla..they are putting sails over the streets and on the squares now..tranforming the innercity into a shadowship..it's so hot that every little field of shadow feels like mercy.. these sails were here for centuries, then they were "forgotten" for many years but came back over the city in the 19seventies.. Pedro calls it the best political decision of the whole decade! 33Kb driving all through germany..how strange things look up here.. houses are like models of houses, women are like models of women..11 hours..a lot of music and talks..travelling is relaxing.. 34Kb M HKA! what a strange ship you are! 29Kb we scann all spaces, feel all corners, imagine a lot and decide few things..2 days we visit the spaces together..meet the people, talk about all open questions and project ideas into the air..when we have dinner in the museums cafeteria there is this wedding couple and this photographer taking images in the entrance of a James Turell installation.."lets life in a cube with only a window to heaven darling".. 27Kb just one hour..late at night in a bar on this huge square which reminds so much in Sevillas Alameda...so nice to see Nico again! and Elena..his g~friend..omi brought a jacket for Nico..Nico a big book for omi! see you in a week in Perpignan! omi flies from Brussels to Sevilla..Miss PI, You and Topo leave one day later by car to Torino..they still want to go through all pages and images we preselected from cittadellartes big archive. Sevilla again..what a change! like comming from the rational to the ritual, from the "ornament is a crime-" to the "ornament is fine-land".. a new situation > Eva, Ana, Ruben, Jaime and soon Topo, who'll also forms part of this team, were lucky and got offered to use a house, they are renovating, as their studio until the de/construction works start..que bien, jo..and the ADSL equipment arrives already!.. while they all are working on their big project (they are planing 10 houses for 10 families outside Sevilla!) the calcies meet in the the chatscape to get e.r.b.s.e. ready to send..Miss Pi and You are coordinating and cording up the package in Torino.. on the 27th e.r.b.s.e. rolls northwards.. omi's doing a little poster for Jerusalem...Tal organized the workshop in Musrara school for photography and new media.. 16Kb in some days omi will meet Miss Pi in Perpignan to give the 1st workshop regarding geografia affettiva! they are very excited about that 1st step towards the real..will the students like the project? will they help us improving it also in their own interest..and will the ecole superieure d'art want to colaborate with us developing the programm and become a partner? we send the students the perpi_weekprogram.doc . . Eva and omi talk about the "pre-ruins"..you know, those buildings which never got finished..there are so many, especially in Spain.. and they decide to make a little project out of it..they want to take good images of these kind of ruins and collect them for further steps.. you remember when Juan also proposed to work with them? maybe we can do something together? also Miss Pi is fascinated by this construction-decadence..well first of all we are going to collect them..we'll let you know..let us know if you're working with them already! ta luego ita, no vemo supapronto! omi meets Miss P and Topo in Cerbere on the 1st of June. its hot and sunny. Topo came only for a day..tomorrow he'll continue to Barcelona and then straight on to Sevilla where the other archis are awaiting him..