Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>
To: █████████ █████ <█████████████████ >
Dear █████████ ,
I hope you and your family are healthy and well.
I am fine. I am in Berlin where things are beginning to open up again .
I had meant to write you earlier to see how you were handling the pandemic, but in the chaos of worry and uncertainty, that message got postponed.
I am well, and have found ways to benefit from the slowdown, but I imagine it would have been different for you, having to manage the time with more child care than usual. What about the art by translation program? Has the planning been severely affected?
I am writing now because I received the results of the ██████ jury, and although I wasn’t selected, they are still interested in working with me, so I will try to find fundingfrom Canada to work with them. Thank you for the recommendation, I am sure that your support was invaluable to my application prospects.
I am also working on a new project this year, for which I received significant funding: this project will involve hiring a supplemental employee to take on fundraising and grant writing for an artist run centre currently operating with a single employee. My hope is that the addition of an external employee, paid by my grant, will supplement the centre’s capacities to the extent that they might be able to increase their operating budget to allow them to hire a second employee.... but we will see. This work is also to be a delegated performance, as the employment is an artwork and therefore the employee is also a performer enacting a score.
I think that this is a project that might interest you, and vaguely remember possibly even having mentioned the idea to you in ██████ . At that time I hadn’t been successful with my first funding application, but in my recollection it was the enthusiasm of your response to my description of the project that led me to reapply. But I was also deliriously exhausted from night shifts at that time, so my memory of the trip is a bit unreliable. In any case, I will keep you updated as this work progresses.
Anyways, I just wanted to say hi, and send you a late, but positive update from my life, despite the terrible state of the world these days.
I look forward to being in touch, and to hearing how you are.
sending you warm greetings from Berlin.
x
Josh