Friday, December 02, 2005

Letter for Project 2 (single poster)

Dear Kate,

I am an artist who will be exhibiting at Gertrude Contemporary Art Space (200 Gertrude St) in mid January 2006. The gallery is closed during this period and the space has traditionally been used as a window display for the Midsumma festival. As part of the project I am creating a space that will be used exclusively in the reflection of queer discourse within an art practice. The project will transform the space from a window display to a more private space that only queer people will utilise. There will be many activities planned for the space – most having a community of queers collaborating on a craft project. The projects currently proposed for this space are: a celebratory collaborative paper sculpture made by gay and lesbian youth; a reading group and craft response project with queer artists and a poster design workshop for activist queers. I am writing to enquire as to whether you might be able to help out with the later project.

I am developing a project that requires activists to become collaborators with me in the production of a singular hand crafted paste-up poster. This would entail you becoming a sort of client - in a designer/client relationship. The parameters of the project would require you to; have the time to meet on an informal basis; pinpoint a particular queer issue that you think needs addressing; a particular site where you would like this poster to be contextualised in and therefore pasted on and give me permission to post our interaction on the project’s blog site www.with-out.blogspot.com. There will also be formal and technical boundaries due to the aesthetic limitations/possibilities inherent in a hand-crafted poster, my technical abilities and the overall aesthetic of the project.

The reasoning behind the production of a singular poster for this particular project is to: make a distinction between the mass produced and poster made with say collaged coloured paper and marker pen; critically engage with the question of the role of the artist in a queer politic; investigate the micro (the personal, the local etc.) and its relationship to the macro and to recognise that a midsumma art project based in Fitzroy has a limited capacity to effect a broader change but is more capable of small ones and to engage with one issue but publish multiple voices.

Due the time frame of the project – I would like to meet with you soon if you are interested in the project to get the ball rolling, answer any of your questions and give you more detail of how and when the poster will be produced. My numbers are ---------------- or get back to me via email with your number.

Yours sincerely,


Spiros Panigirakis

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