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Posted 1

18 - 30 Jun 2007

POSTED 1

// on display in the hallway of GP from June 18th - June 30th

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