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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

T-Cell & I @ PACE, SORT OF: day 5

I’ve sent the following, under various guises and permutations, to: http://www.mch.govt.nz; http://www.fuel4arts.com; http://www.thebigidea.co.nz; http://www.nzlive.com. WHO’S DOING WHAT WHEN WHERE HOW TO WHOM IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR IT? I’

& I @ WINZ: day 4

My charming trainee case manager at WINZ experiences some difficulty in explaining to me why I am eligible for an UB of no more than $36.21 per week. She tries to create a diversion by bringing up on her screen various conversion charts and highlighting irrelevant figures. Acknowledging her

T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 3 – SWOT on track despite setback – deeper rabbit-hole found: notes on Strengths and Weaknesses internal to the project of establishing a theatre group called T-Cell

W- LACK OF FINANCIAL NOUS In the past I’ve relied on a producer, manager or collaborative partner. Not that I don’t know how to hold purse-strings, I can spend and be thrifty, but as for putting the money in the purse: I can hold down money; I lack

& I @ WINZ

never young, golden & bulletproof, ever old, deluded & fragile, I contacted WINZ today to hear how my UB application was getting on: UB is allegedly the support mechanism for those enrolled @ PACE, although you can slide in via SB, sickly and not so slickly. Gordon – this was the 0800

T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 2, SORT OF

To write a letter to performing artists? to the performing arts community? sector? to theatre practitioners? to theatre workers? poets, makers & workers? (wouldn’t wankers be next in the series?) to whom it may concern … ? interested parties? partisans? compagneros? erroristas? (see <<empyre>> discussion for this

cont. (from previous post): scene ii, dreams, plans and schemes, ideal, S.O.R.T. O.F.

– image courtesy OMA What theatre practitioner, performing artist, thesb, with a room or without one, a broom, or without, would not be excited by Rem Koolhaas’s re-imagination of the bricks-&-mortar playhouse he or she would claim to be more familiar with, would, indeed, claim to have a

T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 1, scene i

I am at last, after a month of the usual humiliations and frustrations, having kissed the hoops and leapt the hems at Work and Income New Zealand, moving forward on distinct and obscure pathways to arts and cultural employment. So Lynn tells me, at The Depot Artspace [see link, left]