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- Hello. My name is Bobby Baker. I am a woman and an artist. I am 58 years old.
I live in London, England with my husband Andrew, a photographer. We have two grown-up children - a son and a daughter. They don’t live with us anymore but Roxy and Chico do instead - they are black cats.
My company is called Daily Life Ltd. I am fortunate to work with Steph -Producer and Emma - Projects Assistant, and other tip-top people too.
While on this perch I’ll be responding to the question posed by Rajni Shah for The Art of Engagement: "What is an 'engaged practice'?" I am very pleased to reside artistically on this particular line – whatever or wherever it may be – throughout the month of May.
So a small flock of us will flutter around and try to engage with each other (and you) with our beady eyes, to create a birdy culture of sorts. We will be using Twitter which is a "service for co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question - What are you doing?" We will be sending 'tweets' – SMS posts of up to 140 characters. I see a tweet as a haiku for the digital age – well, sort of.
I have spent the past 11 years road testing various treatments for my multiple ailments. I've been cured of most so far. On Tuesday 28th April I had a new knee fitted to replace the disappointing one I inherited. So lots of my tweeting will be about being in hospital and perhaps about knees, TV, flocks of nurses or flurries of doctors…Let's see…
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Thanks for sharing your work with everyone - I really enjoy seeing it.
I wonder if you knew Barbara Reise the late art historian and critic? I was a student and good friend until her sudded death in 1978. The Tate Archive has commissioned me to write a personal memoir of Barbara and I would be pleased - if you knew her - to add something - recollections of her - to the document.
Hope to hear from you soon
Best wishes and thanks again for your work
Keith
Of course, you are more than welcome to continue posting and twittering, and I hope you do for it will be much appreciated.
But now the 'official' residency programme is ending. It has been fantastic, really a wonderful thing to have the privilege of organising. Thanks for bringing it to such a joyful and human and unusual end.
with love and a deep respect,
Rajni
Love to Roxy - and the bird on your head.
I just thought I'd check in though - after a few 'tweets' - and find that I feel like I'm now in my own virtual jolly summer party. How weird is that? I'm going to do this more now as it's a slightly more comfortable 'headspace'. It's easier to 'tweet' when I'm out and about - or when I was in hospital. God - I wonder how Iris is? Did she recover? Do I care? Sadly no - I hope I never see her again. She moaned fore England she did. But as for Sue and Emily - thinking of them and wondering about their health brings tears to my eyes even though we only knew each other for a week by being on the same ward. Emily is old - Sue is much younger and more ill perhaps. They had such dignity. I hope the nursing assistant with the sadistic streak - who I made a complaint about on my last day - has been too scared to bully other patients as she did all of us. I've only experienced that on psychiatric wards before. I bet it hasn't stopped her. Maybe if we all engaged online about these tiny, maybe rare, but everyday examples of evil - it would stop it? Finally? Ha, ha - very funny.
On the other hand, I have really enjoyed other people's tweets -- particularly Bobby's, which have been funny, engaging and at times rather moving. So I think it has potential as a medium, but people need to explore different ways in which it can be used.
For example: did anyone see this competition, which ran all this week?
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/spoken-word/twitter
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