Hi Guys
Here's a quick paragraph or two to send through to Tessa for her to pass on to the artists. Please let me know if I've left something out or if I've said too much somewhere. Not sure if we need to be more directed at the end as to the information we require from them. What are your thoughts?
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Hi there
We are a group of 10 graphic Design students from New Zealand who feel incredibly fortunate to be producing a publication for the exhibition entitled The Chained lady, The Microscope and The Southern Fish. The show (as you may already be aware) is a retelling of the exhibition Every Version Belongs to the Myth, to which your work was an integral part. We hope to produce a publication that builds on the function of myth investigated in the exhibition. It will be available at the exhibition opening on May 20 and serve as both a gallery guide and documentation of the show. Included will be texts and visual material from the exhibition held in Dublin as well as images of the installation at SoFA Gallery in Christchurch. One of the strategies we wish to explore within the document is the history of the artifact. We are interested in the life of works that exist within a traveling group show, and hope to trace the residual content of the work separate to the artists practice. We believe that this will help explore the myth around individual art pieces as they shift context from show to show, continent to continent, timezone to timezone. This information would initially attempt to be an art work’s CV and help trace the elements of connectivity between the various works in the exhibition.
We are all incredibly excited about the opportunity to develop these ideas into printed form and welcome any information you may have that would be of use in producing this publication. If you were able to supply us with any information related to past exhibitions of the artworks you have in the show, or could perhaps point us in a direction you may think would be helpful, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time. We are again extremely excited about this project and are looking forward to sending you a printed publication after its launch May 20, 2010.
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Perfecto! Well done.
ReplyDeleteSounds good. Although do we need put more emphasis on the fact that we're wanting to find out every show that the artefact has been in since it's existance? maybe we could suggest to the artist that an easy way for them to help us with this is to attach a copy of the artist's CV and asking them to highlight or select the works that that particular work has been in. Duno, just a thought coz otherwise we might not get back what we actually need.
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