Open Artist Call: A Book About Death
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH is an open, unbound book produced by artists
worldwide. Artists are invited to create a "page" in the form of a
postcard about death– any aspect about death. Works can be of any
design, personal or conceptual, color or black and white.
The original work about death stays with you, the artist. The 500 postcards produced from the work is for the exhibition, and are sent to the gallery.
Artists can include any information about themselves on the cards, front or back.
There are no taboos here, no age limits, no areas or ideas that are prohibited. The exhibition organizers only ask that you submit good work, worthy of an interesting and exciting page in this global book
The 500 post cards are then mailed to the gallery in New York City for exhibition. DEADLINE FOR CARDS TO BE IN THE GALLERY: SEPTEMBER 5, 2009.
Photo: Postcard image by artist Pete Gray
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH takes its inspiration from the late, underground
American artist Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995). Ray Johnson’s unbound “book”
of the same title was mailed to his New York Correspondence School
“students” and included pages in his idiosyncratic style that were
funny, sad and ironic “one-page essays” on death. With the A BOOK
ABOUT DEATH project, artists are invited to plunge into subject in
creating their own pages that score the dramatic final dance of death.
EXHIBITION & EVENT: Each artist contribution will be displayed in the Emily Harvey Foundation gallery space in New York. Visitors will be free to take cards and create their own book about death. As the cards are removed, the exhibition will disappear.
During the exhibition, a lecture/panel discussion will take place with a number of leading writers, curators, artists and collectors bringing together a number of salient ideas about death, books, mail art works, Ray Johnson and the global nature of A BOOK ABOUT DEATH. The panel list will be announced when it is finalized this summer.
HOW TO SUBMIT
1. Produce an artwork about death. Make 500 postcards and mail the
package to The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery 537 Broadway New York
City, New York 10012. All submissions will be accepted if they arrive
in time. Artists may produce more than one card if they wish.
DEADLINE: Postcards should be in the gallery no later than 5 September 2009.
2. Once images are produced, a light-weight jpg should be e mailed to MATTHEW ROSE,
along with the artist's name and URL (artist web site address) for
publication on the blog – http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/. This
will allow the organizers to archive the works and artist details.
Other artists will also be able to visit the exhibition in progress.
IMPORTANT NOTE: WHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR IMAGES IN JPG FORMAT, SEND LARGE IMAGES (about 300K each; 900 x 600 pixels). THIS WAY THEY WILL BE HIGHLY VISIBLE ON THIS BLOG AND WEB SITE. Full technical details here.
last chance to submit your entry for 'a book about death'. I sent mine yesterday :-) F
Posted by: Francis | Aug 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM