Today, San Keller and Darren O’Donnell will be arriving into Greensboro. Lee Walton, I and the Weatherspoon staff have been very busy putting things together for the show. So far we’ve got Erwin Wurm, Sherri Lynn Wood and Steve Lambert’s work pretty well set up. Still have to work a few things out but it is looking good!
San is coming in from Zurich via NYC. He is going to be making a bed cover and finding a bed to sleep in this afternoon. George Scheer at Elsewhere on S. Elm has generously offered to allow San to borrow material from the stock there, and even has offered to help make the cover and organize the bed. If all goes well, San will be sleeping (and filming) at the museum tomorrow.
Darren is coming in from Toronto. He will start his initial meetings with the Dega community in Greensboro. The Degas are the indigenous people of Vietnam who were caught in the crossfire during the war in the 1960s and 70s. A little known fact is that Greensboro has the largest population of Degas outside of Vietnam. Darren will be working mostly with the Montagnard/Dega Association. Have to pick up a bike for him later today so that he can get around town.
Nina arrives tomorrow.
- XE
