Comments on: Take Photographs In CCA? At Your Own RISK! http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/03/30/take-photographs-in-cca-at-your-own-risk/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/03/30/take-photographs-in-cca-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:31:12 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=861#comment-2143 Hello Karen - sorry to have misinterpreted your getting of it and mis-remembering the deletion - I’ll amend the post in a second to de-demonise you. (No doubt a couple of drunken retellings of the story before posting here contributed to the dangerous excitement of it all - just as well I didn’t wait a week, or you’d’ve probably ended up a 7 foot tall thug in jackboots or something!)

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By: karen http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/03/30/take-photographs-in-cca-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-2142 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:00:25 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=861#comment-2142 Dear Jack,
It’s nice to be able to continue our initial chat regarding photographing artwork at the CCA Risk show.
I’m the attendant who, you so eloquently describe, “didn’t get it”. I fear there may have been some miscomprehension on your part as I adequately “got” your point to the extent of assuming you would write something along these lines. I knew you couldn’t let such irony go to waste.

I hope you don’t mind if I add a few comments.Firstly, apologies, I wasn’t aware I’d pounced on you.I’ve never been regarded as a particularly intimidating presence. To be honest I didn’t think I could convincingly pounce on anyone. I must be getting more scary in my advanced years, perhaps the latent Govanite gene is finally kicking in.

I know this is a bit sad - please bare with me -
because while I totally understand the use of artistic licence and exaggeration to prove a point, I’d like to correct some “factual” errors. I didn’t ask you to delete the photograph from your phone; the idea would never even enter my head. I remember you offered to
delete it, I reassured you it was unnecessary and explained that the point of filling in the
“Photography release form”- yep, it even has a name - was just standard procedure to protect artistic copyright. You then reassured me that you were always getting aggro for taking photos, although obviously you must have meant at other arts venues and not the CCA.

Working as an invigilator and as part of the FOH, you often find yourself at the blunt end of institutional/artistic inconsistencies. I’m just sorry I didn’t decide at the end of a long day to spend 1/2 an hour discussing these issues with you, but maybe next time,

Cheers,
Karen

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By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/03/30/take-photographs-in-cca-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:08:37 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=861#comment-2141 Yep - I always take loads of telephone camera shots at openings there, and took lots with a proper camera at Toby Paterson’s solo show last year - never had any bother before. I asked the attendant if she was part of a RISK performance piece, but she didn’t seem to get it…

Still, gives me a nice hook on which to hang my review of the show for the List.

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By: cosmopolitan scum http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/03/30/take-photographs-in-cca-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-2140 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:16:49 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=861#comment-2140 Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Was this the first time you had problems with photographing at the CCA?

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