update | The Employee by Joshua Schwebel

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Fri, May 20, 2022 at 4:32 AM

Hi there - I hope the opening went well!

Just a little update to say that I send an exploratory message to Anna over fb, but it has not been read, so I think that I am going to contact her university in Marseille to get an email address.

For the meeting with Mariane - I can do next week on Wednesday, but I feel like we might want to wait until the week after to be able to come to her with fulsome notes. Let me know and I can reply for both of us.

xL

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Fri, May 20, 2022 at 8:38 AM

Hey Lauren,

Yes the opening was fine. I am just pretty tired and confused as I return to remembering what everything was that got suspended outside of the focus tunnel of the exhibit.

But, thank you for trying to reach out to Anna. I think that the University should be the most reliable form of contact. Fingers crossed!

As for the meeting with Mariane, I feel like I confused things. I offered the meeting in case she was struggling with our previous edits or couldn’t find a satisfactory ending to her paper. I had been worried since we hadn’t heard back from her that she might have lost confidence, so the offer of the meeting was more to help at that stage, and I am not sure that it is actually necessary for a meeting anymore. Do you?

I am happy to write back and ask if she wants to have a more social check in, but I feel that we don’t need to rush the edits or have spoken feedback ready.

I will write back to Mariane, offering to disambiguate these two situations.

As for a meeting between you and I, I am open to that, but would probably just use it as a social time to chat and catch up, since I don’t feel that it is entirely necessary for the purpose of the publication. I have not had time to make much in the way of progress. I will most likely work on Mariane’s text tomorrow as I take the train from Ottawa to Toronto. But I don’t feel that we need to rip through the edits too quickly.

x

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:41 AM

Hi dear Josh,

Don’t feel pressure from my side. The time after opening an exhibition is very vulnerable and you need to protect yourself within it.

I agree that we don’t need to jump on anything immediately. I will work on Mariane’s edits and continue to track Anna down. We can connect when you feel ready.

Your email to Mariane was perfect - setting her expectations about the timeline of our process.

Safe travels,

Lauren