Memorandum

28 Jul 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

Excerpted from Memorandum, an artist’s project by Greg Staats (2001) reprinted in “Performing Politics”: “It has been brought to our attention that the number of dogs on Indian Reserves has been increasing at a rate far beyond the capacity of this Department or the Indians to administer them.”

Artist Projects from Spring 2011

05 Apr 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

Never Been to Tehran, was a worldwide exhibition of photography reflecting what 29 international artists imagined Iran’s capital city to look like.

Artist Projects from Winter 2011

28 Feb 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

Barbara Meneley is a Canadian visual artist whose interdisciplinary site-responsive work takes shape in reference to landscapes of contemporary society and culture. She has exhibited across Canada and the US and happily lives and works in Saskatchewan.

Artist Terrariums for Sale – Support Fuse

07 Sep 2010, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

You can purchase one-of-a-kind artist projects here. Each terrarium is $100. all proceeds go to Fuse magazine.

Andrew Paterson

Artist Projects from Fall 2010

01 Sep 2010, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

issue 33.4

OurGoods

OurGoods is a peer-to-peer online network that facilitates the barter of goods and services between artists. The site matches barter partners, provides accountability tools, and offers technical assistance resources to help artists complete their barters and their projects successfully. OurGoods emerges in response to the current economic crisis. To some extent, the arts have always existed in a recession economy. Independent artists in particular are experts at making do with very limited resources. As it becomes clear that even those limited resources will shrink in the coming years, OurGoods enables us to leverage what we already do well in order to create a support system for ourselves.

economicrevitalization.blogspot.com.

Raquel Ormella

Raquel Ormella’s work investigates how contemporary art encourages reflexivity, political consciousness and social action. She has built a practice covering a diverse range of activities such as video, painting, installation, drawing and zines.

http://www.raquelormella.com/index.htm

Artist Projects from Summer 2010

01 Jul 2010, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

issue 33.3

Anka Dabrowska
http://www.ankadabrowska.com/index.html

Artist Projects from Spring 2010

01 May 2010, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

issue 33.2

Reena Katz

Reena Katz’s project, a one-part code book alphabetizes both ciphers and their translations for easy decoding. Usually, only the most basic questions, verbs and nouns can be communicated. These secret messages are transmitted among people who have access to the book. Using the U.S. Navy’s 1890 version of the International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations I look at the institutional knots and flows of equity politics at Toronto City Council, particularly in relation to Palestinian Human Rights.

Artist Projects from Winter 2010

28 Jan 2010, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

issue 33.1

The Fundred Project

The Fundred Project

Operation Paydirt/The Fundred Dollar Bill Project is an art/science project initiated by North Carolina-based artist Mel Chin. The project has a critical mission: to support a solution to lead-contaminated soil in New Orleans and to help end this source of childhood lead poisoning. Paydirt brings together the science to transform lead so that it is no longer harmful and a strategy for citywide implementation. Fundred is a nationwide project designed to raise awareness of this environmental threat and collect the funds necessary to remedy it.

Anyone can make their own Fundred Dollar Bills — original, hand-drawn interpretations of U.S. $100 bills. The goal is to create and collect over 3 million of these artworks. This cumulative total of 300,000,000 Fundred Dollars supports the equivalent cost (in U.S. Dollars) required to make safe every lead contaminated property in New Orleans, so that every child is protected.

These valuable drawings will be picked up by a special armored truck and presented to U.S. Congress with a request for an even exchange of the creative capital – your Fundreds – for real funding to make safe lead-polluted soils in New Orleans. See fundred.org for more information.