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From: Gela Nathaniel

Date: 6 May 2024

Subject: Logistics

Dear all,

Me again! While you’re busy with Assignment Six and the final project, I’m thinking ahead to the event. Mae and her team are very excited at the prospect of seeing the installation in situ and have been making plans for how it will get there and what will happen to it afterwards.

A corporate organisation with health, safety and security concerns will have certain rules that must be adhered to by outside contractors – that’s us. Jonathan, could you liaise with Mae’s PA, so we’re across everything? I suspect we will have to obtain access passes beforehand and register whatever vehicle and company we hire to transport the materials to the location.

Difficult as it is to think beyond the event right now, we also need to decide what happens to our materials afterwards. We’ll have to dismantle it that night (Mae has set aside a two-hour time slot) and I suggest bringing it back to RH in the first instance.

Plenty to think about, talk over and plan for. Good luck!

Gela

Doodle message group MMAM(FTP), 6 May 2024:

Jem Badhuri

I thought RD8 would want it in their foyer permanently.

Gela Nathaniel

They’d love to. Only they don’t have room and our installation, as good as it most certainly will be, does not conform to their strict health-and-safety responsibilities.

Ludya Parak

If they’ve paid for something and want to kick it literally straight in the bin, then it’s up to them.

Jem Badhuri

They won’t bin it.

Ludya Parak

By the time it’s been ‘experienced’ by RD8’s drunken guests it’s going to look pretty smashed up.

Jonathan Danners

Ludya’s right. We want people to interact with the piece. If it’s unfit for human consumption by the end of the night, then our job is done.

Gela Nathaniel

I’d love to set it up at Royal Hastings, but logistics may dictate otherwise.

Alyson Lang

Controversial suggestion coming up: shall WE bin it? RD8 have a ginormous incinerator.

Jem Badhuri

No! Apart from all the hard work some of us have put in, think of all that wasted material. It wouldn’t be eco-friendly.

Patrick Bright

Is burning it safe? We have a lot of resin components.