conference hell
some people i know groan about all the conferences they have to attend - dull, boring, uninspiring, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. seems i've been pretty lucky, really - i mostly get to attend the fun ones like interesting, interesting south and IS II. plus i regularly go to presentation nights like drink + think, process, pecha kucha (of which the next melbourne one is gonna be ace!!). so i guess all of that kinda makes me a bit of a sad case.
all of which will explain why i'm in conference hell at the moment - there are a couple of ace conferences that i really, really want to go to, and i can't. in fact, they're so close, it's driving me nuts. i booked my flights to go to the artspace 'spaces of art' conference ages ago. kept running out of time to call up my registration and finally, when i did so, seems that the conference has sold out! aaargh!!! i'm hoping that all the slack VIPs decide to not turn up so i can still get a spot, but right now, i'm annoyed. mostly at myself.
then, this morning, as i was catching up on my podcasts by the architects, i heard about the parallax conference with the AIA where slavoj žižek is speaking! (not to mention a swag of other cool archi-peeps, like geoff from BLDGBLG) and in melbourne! i was so excited that i texted my friend at 8am to tell her about it. argh!! jump online, check out ticket prices. double-aargh!!
given that it's a professional conference, it's little wonder that it's professional prices, but forgive me while i cry into my meagre installation-artist-who-happens-to-love-architecture budget. sucks bad.
thank god for twitter, podcasts and video footage. hopefully everyone in both conferences will be smart enough (and business-minded enough) to be feeding back as i'll be techno-stalking as much as possible. heh.
3 comments:
yeah I hate that. I always see mad good stuff I wanna see. It's always prohibitively expressive. I do so love Conway hall events for that...
lauren - come to sydney, show up at the door of artspace. they will let you in. for sure someone won't come along.
as for the other problem, again, just show up, don't pay. make sure you arrive about 7 minutes late for the first event, they will usher you thru without checking your registration. then hang around enough and they will assume you have registered.
the prices are set for academics whose universities pay for them to attend. artists get in free, in my formulation... they should be grateful to have you there!
hey CG - how awesome is Conway Hall... i miss its bunting and red seats. heh.
lucas - that was my plan b (for artspace). i'm sure that, worst comes to worst, i can beg. heh. now, will you be at artspace? do you have time away from your tome for coffee next weekend?
as for zizek - that's, mr, a good plan. chutzpah. plan B is to volunteer for the event (how i got to see kanye west and daft punk last summer. ha!).
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