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25 Dec 2008, 12:55 pm

news story here

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A British museum is looking to spark the creation of an interesting art installation by calling for an artist to live isolated in its tower next summer.

The Manchester Museum, opened in the 1880s on the University of Manchester campus, has issued a posting seeking a new resident artist.

However, the unusual gig will include being closed up inside the museum's Gothic tower for six to eight weeks in late spring and summer.

This might suit a few people here. Anyone interested?

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25 Dec 2008, 2:54 pm

I think I will pass on this offer. But it is important to note what a modern hermit does.

Some catholic monks have been known to live in flats on super rough estates, they go into the flats and then live there as hermits isolated by choice from the rest of the population. I have meet a monk who explained to me how they view a hermit as being a monk or nun who goes into the wilderness to consider spiritual and moral issues alone at length. I think that a person living in populated place but is able to pass their time in isolation is as much a hermit as someone who lives on a remote island.

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25 Dec 2008, 3:07 pm

Wow! I would love to do that!

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25 Dec 2008, 4:13 pm

1880s? Isolated? Sign me up!

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25 Dec 2008, 4:35 pm

Yeah... only trouble is, you actually need to make art.

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25 Dec 2008, 4:50 pm

orngjce223 wrote:

Yeah... only trouble is, you actually need to make art.

I would love to make art, to have the necessary time and solitude to make art. The problem here is that I live in the US, have six kids to be cared for while gone, and am not sure if it would pay at all (do they buy the art?).

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25 Dec 2008, 4:58 pm

No, I actually want to be somewhat less isolated.

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25 Dec 2008, 7:54 pm

Would I have internet connection, preferably high speed ?

There was a time when I would have jumped at this, my aptitude test said my best fit was working in a fire tower in the woods and I do make "art" but now I am bound to an earthling and though I wouldn't mind a break, he would . :cry:

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25 Dec 2008, 8:55 pm

i am trying to break myself out of the whole "hermit" thing.....

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25 Dec 2008, 10:15 pm

@#$% if I only had talent...

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25 Dec 2008, 11:12 pm

I'm hoping they don't end up like Ren here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKDrrVO-cE

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26 Dec 2008, 1:59 am

That is a f cking dream-job!
Where do I apply?
I would sell a kidney for that job.

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26 Dec 2008, 2:18 am

artist _yes
talent_yes
hermit- no - do not wish to do that any more...
choice - well apperently no.
hermit i am hermit i will be hermit i will (likely) remain.
*&^&^%$#$#@#$!%^&* my upbringing negates saying what i feel.

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