BACHECA
Upcoming workshops in Rwanda and Istanbul this coming July 2008. More details as available.
The video installation "At Play in the Fields of Lord" will be part of a group exibition at the Daegu Art Center at the end of May. |
After a very long lapse during which this site was not updated, we finally are settled, have time, and are learning the ropes of Dreamweaver. Or more exactly, Marcella is learning it. So a little update:
Following a 9 month stay in Lincoln Nebraska, doing an artists residency thanks to the invitation of Dan Ladely at the Ross Cinema, and during which we shot two new films - one almost finished now and the other awaiting work - we decamped for a drive westward, a stop in Portland, a brief visit to Seoul, a return to Europe and Marcella's region, Basilicata, and finally back to Seoul. There my academic career took a large leap, from "expelled from Illinois Institute of Technology, Nov. 1962" to "Professor, Yonsei University, Graduate School of Communications and Arts" Sept 1., 2007." This is my first real job, though in some senses it scarcely seems like a job - 2 days teaching per week, the rest of the time my own. Ironically the contract was only for one year as in the coming year I arrive at the mandatory retirement age in Korea, though it appears I will likely be elevated then to "Professor Emeritus" and will stay on. We'd like to do 3 years, and perhaps more if everyone is happy at that juncture.
Our apartment is on the 15th floor of a new building, overlooking a section of downtown Seoul. Immediately to one side of us is a large sprawling older market area, crammed with myriad of things from cloth to electronics to dried fish to clothes to plastics, printers, metal workers and more things than I can list. It is fascinating and will surely be the subject of a film for me. To another side is Jongmyo, a large park with a UN World Heritage shrine. The view from our window includes small mountains which dot Seoul's geography.
We are settled in, computers humming, working. Marcella is finishing up 3 months of intensive Korean lessons and doing well at a totally different language. I could never do it, though I suspect I will learn just a little bit.
Meantime editing on three different long films, several from some time ago, and the 3rd the other shot in Lincoln. And anticipating shooting another film with student help in the spring, and perhaps another before or after. And working on several installation works, including one large-scale architectonic one for which the University has provided a grant. Very very busy.
And I get to retire next year ! Only joking.
