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Update Letter

Sent this to the Core Chumbacca Group:

Dear Chumbacca Patrons,

I have no excuse for having disappeared during the past three weeks. Actually, I have many excuses, but I hope they won't be necessary. Life with Chumbacca is always unpredictable, and we'll have to get used to bursts of activity followed by days of neglect. Here's the current state of things:

Due to the (I think) well-founded specificity the project has been channeled into, I had to seize the opportunity to re-evaluate its potential during the German workshop. Some details are available at the Chumblog; others I will tell you in person. Other duties (Naptime, the Cardew script, etc.) prevent me from giving Chumbacca the time I'd wish for the rest of this year. I plan to resume Chumbacca activity in January. We'll see how that goes.

In the meantime, I've been working on a clear statement/proposal that I'll publish in the next few weeks. Here's the basic plan.

The project should unfold in three separate stages:

• 1. Beta

  1.1 Test group is given basic directions.

  1.2 Test Group finishes their work.

  1.3 Online Test Exhibition is set up, presenting the model at a small scale.

  1.4 Additional Test Experiences with groups of Children. Conference/Workshop given by Chumbacca on Conceptual Art.

  1.5 Evaluation towards:

• 2. Curatorial Process

  2.1 The Online Test Exhibition, along with statement and personalized elements of persuasion, are sent to selected artists who are not aware of Chumbacca’s existence (or mine, for that matter). Younger artists are approached individually with a set of directions catered to their age and interests.

  2.2 Selected artists (adults and children) who react favorably begin work. This is a global stage, involving at least three continents (as already practiced during the Test Group process). Individual processes are documented, with emphasys in Chumbacca’s relation with each artist.

  2.3 Successful works from the Test Group are added to the larger group; all artists finish their work.

  2.4 Apocryphal Online Catalog is set up.

• 3. Production (optional)

  3.1 Apocryphal Online Catalog is basis/prototype for real-life exhibition, submitted for funding everywhere (even to those institutions who will likely reject it).

  3.2 The process is documented. Exhibition is designed, included documentation gathered during 3.1

  3.3 Chumbacca Exhibition.

Stage 1 is being carried out with personal funding. Limited funding is necessary for stage 2. Stage 3 will be excessive, and for that reason should be pursued.

We are barely at 1.2 now. Chumbacca has promised to call all of you sometime in the next month, to discuss details of what's been done so far. In the meantime, I'm signing off to work on other things for a few days.

Posted by huili at October 27, 2004 02:12 PM