A part Two Gather/To Gether A part

posted by Stuart Butler

Dear Artist, Friends, Colleagues,

in unprecedented times we call for your responses.

Artistic Exchange Opportunity

Word-Object: antidotes for our current and future trajectory

Initial Deadline 1 May 2020.

decentrederspace/inspirallondon are supporting artists and other creative citizens swimming against the current enforced flooding – to make together and apart – a piece of exchange artwork. You are invited to submit words/phrases/signs for word-oject antidote-signs for placement along inspirallondon Trail 2020/21– for works transformed into small objects (up to 10 characters) you can receive £25; for works transformed into medium objects you can receive £35 (11 to 25 characters); for works transformed into large objects (26-35 characters) you can receive £50-60. Word-Objects anti-signs should be short, pithy, and in spirit of dada, adopt attitudes of multi-lingual, de-centring, cross meaning messaging.Not to be disappointed please submit your words by 1 May 2020

There are 3 themes or threads for this exchange with the overall schema of creating antidotes for our current and future trajectory:

1. An immediate response to the absurdities or contradictions of current ‘global’ lockdown. Taking the idea of social distancing and isolation to their illogical conclusion and testing our capacity to endure and adapt to the mixed messages bombarding our freedoms: ‘A part Two Gather/To Gether A part’

2. Wor(l)d Objects – for contemplating, reflecting on and confronting the ongoing ecological extinction 'climate' crisis – through the eyes of the other or with other senses – to provide an antidote to the anthropocene, and other anthropocentric viewpoint.

3. “The Magic of the Public Notice” – as a continued response to the imperative of public notices and their often incongurous, hidden or unconscious meaning – we invite contributions of merit and wit.

For all submission info. go here or to donate

For those still with income we would ask you to donate your small exchange fee (by waving it). Any fundraised money or reserve can then be reallocated to support more artists, and also refugees, homeless asylum seekers and others forgotten outside govenment support structures. See Emergency food bank for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Please DONATE HERE with ref. Covid19

This small emergency exchange project requires only of you some time to think and reflect - there is no need to fill out any complicated form and though the fee is modest it requires only a minimum of sharing. Fees will be allocated and processed asap after the first initial deadline 1st May 2020.

Please circulate.

Thanking you in advance.

Charlie Fox

Director inspirallondon - decentrederspace.

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