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back to Biella after two days in the north..and to Torino the same night..nothing else..to bed..thinking to/in Mona..

the days are detail-spamed, thanks God did Giacinto arrive, his energy can move a lot..no time to work on the www..diving in details and preparing 1000 things to have them ready when all the artists arrive..welcome back Zai, ciao Monarom - have this blossom as a welcome gesture, Lyn and Lyn came! benvenuti belli scozzesi! they wear big shoes..raining today..we are resear- ching for the related-section, o! omi has to go to the unversity now, he promised to talk about bigguest and some c-projects..full house, nice..o tells about bigguests idea, its problems and how it might will be..in 10 days..after o comes Nicola Tosic>www.nekada.com ..presents kind of privat publicity projects and proposes later to make an educational-sticker for bigguest.. great-grazie! o asks if somebody wants to assist in Andreja Kuluncic' project..taking care of the installation and communication when she and her friends will be gone after a week and and leave distributive justice for the public..and some assistents..Samuele wants..good day! o puts him in contact with Andreja..the related-section can go online, under this multi-circum-stances we can't do more than starting..auto-
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big dinner at DA CHENG's, Miguel and Alonso (colectivo cambalache) arrived yesterday, or the day before..we-meet-the-first-time-tune all around the round table..busy people having a brake..after the 19th we would go dance tonight..but tonight we'll go back to the mail-office, to the photoshops, minidiscs, calls, notes and moves..BIG Ding needs BIG Dong!..we are dancing anyway, ha!



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the containers arrive, etoy..zai, Miriam again..cold, rainy springday on piazza castello, the "okay" we had yesterday to put the tanks on the central line of the square, axis Porta Nova - Castello, is an unpossibility today..under monumental protection..Gi Ferraris calls Pontius and Pilatus, ..lets have breakfast together while this gets cleared..clear now..12 meters out of the axis..the orange juice tastes like strawberry..crane crane..the monumental flowerpots will be removed tomorrow..what a nice rain today, like lighter than on other days..


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next days fly like jumping elephants..how can we ever finish that in 7 days? dinner with Lara..Almarcegui (Alotement Gardens) ..lets dinner..Lyn and Lyn..Lara tells us from the Libellula project she did/does with an architectfriend..in this village..putting this disused, once praised as a solution for energy problems, water- pump-windmill-system in a new context, in this village..somewhere else? we offer to host Libellula in naVia..

Ola Stahl and Karl Lindh (Permanent Ignition) arrive, Songül Boyraz (Einzelhaft), Christoph Draeger and Reynold Reynolds (Apocalypso Place 2000) and Oscar Vargas (Top Ten Values) also..and Jakob Schlandt (transnational republic)...now our backyard office in via Maria Vittoria's truly boiling..sometimes we are 30 people working in here..Renè Gabri (e-Xplo - A Bus Tour) also arrives ("can I use your net connection, I'm very good on computers ,don't worry..")..a lady from HAPPY WEB comes to visit the boil…she wants to talk to c a l c and to all bigguests which are around..so Tammo, Jakob, Miklós, Dominic and zai do some inter- views..some fresh texts arrive for the reflections - Roth & Longoni, Nuno Sacramento, Everyone is an Expert..all here..

Everyone is an Expert sends a very polemical text.."Basta Berlusconi, Bossi, Fini, benvenuti Clandestini" is one of the headlines..for us its okay, no problem to publish that online and take the responsibility for it..we never would put this rather disinviting slogan on top, but its up to them..okay..online! Dominic and Miklós show some great plans how to install re:route inCavallerizza..

next day - Ainara Etxeberria (Self-Portrait) and her novio and assistant Soto arrive in Torino..they start to work the same day to put the sms- messages on the wall we prepared for the project..and: today the curve- stairs for the Arena came! now it looks like the first drawings we did!



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Teresa and Giacinto work on texts for the 1st issue of the TOOBIG- catalogue..they call it "a short guide to serve the world", a little folder, in which all visual art-projects are explained briefly.. Sophie Fougy, Simon Girault and Cedric arrive, they'll realize the Moveable Park..and Valerie Lamontagne (Advice Bunny) and her friend/assistent Toyen..RAI III does an interview with us and some bigguests..raining again..

sunday the 14th of April…sky opened a bit..working all day on www.bigguest.net, Federico and Miguel tell us that they're doing paella and disco in a squad tonight ..via Blini..at 21:00..now also Adriana and Carolina from Colombia arrived..they'll work with Colectivo Cambalache..and they are DJ's tonight..after a fantastic paella everybodies dancing..Mala Rodriguez, arabian disco sound..

in Casqueiro too…l°°ks is working on bigguest.net too, doing all the programming and..sending out the arena-newsletters..Pablo is outside mowing the terasses..much more work since Tita the goat died…she ate the half…Amador is working on the curve- bench under the nave..

monday morning - more and more artists are comming...Maia Gusberti (logicaland) and friends came today from Vienna…el perro from Madrid, etoy finds by chance a webcam which has a perfect view on their day-care-camp..like installed for this work..some things work so fine, others so terribly slow..4 days and we open..do we? Faisal Abdu'Allah (Garden of Eden) arrives.."hey Bro, nice to see you again"..

16th - Lorenzo Palladino from Digital Tree arrives with all computers! they painted the stage meanwhile, we can install..Lorenzo is directly send by God! he's our trouble shooter angel #1! Ainara and Soto are doing well…almost finished..



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