Berlin Group
Salle Demain Rotterdam
feb/05

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deric has been:
'being busy' with things and nothing - having cold knees - on his computer - wondering what would happen if we hadn't been allowed to bring our computers - looking for his mp3 player - making peanut butter and chocolate spread sandwiches - looking at the active box - bringing cardboard boxes in off the street - looking for something - 'being busy' with asking what we want from him and what we want from this - asking questions about boredom, where it comes from, what it is - not making work because he can't use text, graphically - asking us to pose with the active box - reading us a story about male genitals, dressed up as a cowboy on a horse - and whilst claiming a space he learned something, that deric's corner is a good place for deric carner - made us pancakes.

evi has been:
finding out that hester isn't german - interviewing us and asking us questions about the active box as a model to talk about our group - having very different views in what this group is, is for, or could be - trying to write a text that isn't a fairy tale, romantic, patronising or saccharin - telling us stories about her sister's exploits with minor celebrities - explaining the tv programme 'the gilmore girls' - using feng shui to try and find jesus - making us soup - bringing in mirrors - finding out that the toilet is the creative centre from where the chi needs to be channelled - writing another text - referring to albert heijn as sainsbury's

kelly has been:
putting clay in her teeth - not knowing what to do with it and having no ideas about clay - trying to write proposals - trying to think of who would be on a list of her enemies - memorising lines to do with hermetics, good ideas, the 'bug' - wondering if any of this will be interesting to other people - finally embracing the clay - leaving the mess on the table, it getting cleaned up - shopping and finding a new dress - telling us about being photographed at a hippy camp and being in the guardian newspaper - saying about being asked why she had a paki dad by the kids at school.

tobias has been:
trying to concentrate - asking us to close the door and us being sorry we keep forgetting to do it - smoking - advising that we should buy 4 euro wine instead of 2 euro wine - pushing dolly parton off the table until she fell - memorising lines to do with an audience, the audience, accessibility - mainly editing until the early hours of the morning - taking photographs of us as a group with his head in the way of the picture - making strong coffee - buying a new 'fonzey' style leather jacket - being good at computer things.

hester has been:
worried that it won't be art and will just stay as a joke - looking for jesus - be nervous about meeting jesus - finding and getting a date with jesus - thinking about showing videos she made with her friends as a joke - drinking martini - very good at smoking - working with evi - editing for hours and worrying about seconds and mintues - taking on the role of curator and still wanting to work behind the bar - practising her english accent - making a picture wall for the bar - not getting involved in arguments - getting her friend to be our spy at another opening this evening (friday) - she was our translator. (LP)

low profile has been:
running around arguing in silence and discussing the project via email - did justice to a bucket and ladder - hannah was concerned with logistics - rachel spoke before thinking - both ate mayonnaise with everything - occupied the front room and made it boring - occupied the back room and made it exciting - used upstairs - stood near each other a lot - gave me stickers and then stole them back because I wasn't busy enough - yelled across the street to each other - serious about reporting. (D)