once more with feeling

It's been a while and things have changed significantly. I'm no longer pursuing a PhD - it all went terribly wrong. It seems the department, and my supervisor specifically, wanted to integrate art into social science as long as it didn't involve me having any type of personal life. Even if that life involves going to support my wife's performance at NRLA. We had a big falling out and I left. I could rant about it, but I've moved on now. Just for the record though, my treatment was just appalling and I'm amazad it was allowed to go on.
Since April last year I have been the Strategic Arts Coordinator for Groundwork South West. So, happy days and back to what I do I won't say best but pretty well.
Every job of this kind is different and this is a peach. Strategic's the right word, it's up to me (mainly) how we move an arts programme forward - the possibilities are endless.
So far, we've an artist in residence called Clare Thornton and she's started a blog:
http://groundworkresidency.blogspot.com
so you can go there and see what she thinks of it all.
Groundwork is charity who's tag line is: Changing Places, Changing Lives. So I've not fallen far from my aspirations with the Performative Social Science PhD, this time it's about using good high-quality contemporary art in socially engaged practice. Not as eas as it sounds, not all art sits comfortably in the social realm, sticking to modernist gallery approaches instead. And why not - there's plenty of room for everyone.
I'm going to try and keep this up and will start to filter in reading, thoughts, updates etc. but for now I think it's good to have resurrected my blog.