// on display in the hallway of GP from June 18th - June 30th
// Press release:
Title - POSTED 1
Dates - 18th-30th June 2007
Venues:
1 Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork, Ireland
2 Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
3 Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, Scotland
4 General Public, Berlin, Germany
5 Yellow Box Art & Music Centre, Borgholm, Oland, Sweden
6 Kubota Artists Studios, Tokyo, Japan
7 HERE gallery and shop, Bristol, England
8 Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
9 Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
10 The British School, Rome, Italy
11 Gallery of New Media, Gorzow, Poland
12 SILVERMAN Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Description:
POSTED 1 is a curated international poster project presenting 12 images by 12 selected artists in 12 venues across the world simultaneously from 18th -30th June, and on a project website.
This project aims to challenge the increasingly unquestioned commodification of images, writing, and public blank wall space through a temporary installation of posters that are not advertisements. The idea for this project came from a frustration with the lack of motivation among artists to engage with the public outside of the gallery/exhibition space, and at how advertisers have appropriated public wall spaces. It will be displayed in a social or common area of each venue - cafe, entrance, resource room, etc.
Submission was free, and open to all artists who's work can be represented in A3 poster format.
The website, www.postedproject.wordpress.com, is the hub of the project: it currently includes a curated gallery of submissions and a public discussion forum, and will be updated with documentation from each venue.
POSTED 1 was curated by SKART - an artists collaboration based in Cork City - with selection advice from two invited professionals:
Rene Zechlin, (Curator of Exhibitions and Projects, Glucksman Gallery, Cork), Trevor Joyce, (Contemporary Poet, Founder and Chair of SoundEye International Poetry Festival)
For further information, please email skartincork@gmail.com , or see the website!
Supported by Culture Ireland
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For images, further information, or to arrange an interview, please contact
Sharon McCarthy 087 6304003 (Ireland, mobile)
or
Kevin Tuohy 086 3623523 (Ireland, mobile)
email: skartincork@gmail.com
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