On a totally different note, I know you don’t draw much by hand any more but what size would you draw at if you were doing things by hand? A4? A3?
I’m just wondering if you’ve ever done anything poster-sized or the like before…

A SYMPOSIUM A BANQUET
Sunday, 13th May at 5.30pm (booking essential and limited, tickets 10?).
A Symposium A Banquet is a meeting time for the exchange of lessons, knowledge and to share experiences over a banquet table. Bruce Mau’s ‘Incomplete Manifesto’ describes the ‘in-between’ times as those where the best ideas, or real growth, stem from. A Symposium A Banquet is an attempt to revert to the original meaning of the word ’symposium’, as a social occasion for the exchange of ideas and shared food and drink by curating an evening of formal and informal knowledge exchanges.
Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces - what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.”
Our guests will explore the diversity of presentation and presentation modes, then move upstairs for a gallery banquet, where we hope the exchange of ideas will continue, helping to cross-pollinate the resources with which we work, and the tools we rely on to develop our thought. Lectures are being prepared for the evening by an irrational selection of people who will cumulatively provide lessons from a vast array of knowledge disciplines. Ranging from science to fashion and philosophy to sport, the lectures will also undulate in length depending on the speaker and their topic - anywhere between 5 minutes and 40 minutes. Have you ever desired to know how to tear a phonebook in half? What contribution has String Theory made to the world of mathematics? What is the legacy of Chris Burden’s seminal performance action? What is The Village? Who is making dessert?
Produced by Fiona Hallinan and Tessa Giblin, the evening will be orchestrated to a specific tempo, aiming to facilitate the intake of information while keeping attention riveted.
For catering reasons booking is essential with spaces limited, call the Project Arts Centre Box Office on +353 (0)1 881 9613/14. Tickets 10? (includes wine and dinner).
A Symposium A Banquet has been influenced by a variety of sources. There was the meeting with Peter from Pinc (pinc.nl), Plato’s Symposium, there was Vaari who introduced us to Pecha-Kucha, the Mobile Academy’s ‘Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge’ and Learning is Fun at Trinity Arts Festival last year. That’s what we were thinking - what is it to learn - to teach in order to learn - to hunger for stimulation beyond your expertise - to wonder - to muse - but where we end up is still to be seen.

Hey I was thinking about the Arts Council thing. You should tell them you are making once off versions of comics, actual “pieces of art”, and the include that art in your comics as the cover or whatever. So you’d be getting funding off them in a round about way… or something like that. Know what I mean?