Cymru yn Fenis Wales Collaborative Postal Project
Hello lovely people of the internet,
I have a proposition for you, it is as follows.
(A bit of background first)...
In a few days I will be leaving Cardiff to work as part of a team on the Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice Invigilator Plus programme. Chapter in Cardiff, the curating gallery, selected and trained us as part of a pilot programme between The Arts Council of Wales and Cardiff School of Art and Design. We will be supervising, monitoring and maintaining Wales’s exhibition, James Richards: Music for the gift at La Biennale di Venezia as well as interacting with the public.
The Invigilator Plus participants are being mentored and supported by G39 as part of their UNIT(e) programme to aid our ongoing professional development.
(Here's the good bit)...
I will be in Venice for 26 days. I am looking for 26 participants to engage with me by post in a collaborative series of artworks. I will be making a piece of work for you, based on my experiences of the art/people/places that I come across while in Venice but with you as an individual in mind. I am interested in art in a gallery environment and how our experience of the art world is affected and censored by social/economic/academic and private boundaries. You can give me as little or as much information about yourself as you'd like, whether that information is personal, professional or anything in between. I will then post you the artwork and ask you to modify it in some way before returning it to me.
I will be sending you an A5 sized image but there are no rules as to what you can do to it. You are welcome to digitise/paint/collage/deconstruct/burn/write about the work in any way your heart desires.
I am not limiting the collaboration by only engaging with visual artists and would encourage writers, designers, ceramicists, filmmakers, curators, academics- (people) to be involved.
If you are interested or know someone who might be please share far and wide and send me a message so that we can talk logistics.
Anna
http://www.annagrogers.co.uk/cymruynfeniswales