Just right after finishing up my friend Carol's installation at Mixed Greens, I jumped into a group exhibition last Thursday evening.
Three Non-Profit galleries in three different Boroughs in NYC got together proposing that artists work in collaborative groups, building off each others' works to experiment with a non-commercial semi-spontaneous method of creation.
This show system is: one leading artist makes a new work at the gallery for one week during the first week of the exhibition. Then, the next artist comes and takes over the piece to create a new piece for themselves during the next one week. In that way each group of 4-5 artists keeps creating new works from the previous work at the gallery space.
I originally proposed something about visual information from tourist souvenir postcards.
I am more attached to NOLA now and quite aware of the reality after Hurricane K. Over the past month, I walked around tourists' stops and checked out postcards. It's interesting. They are all pretty much similar to what I first bought and sent to my grandparents eight years ago. Then, I thought that we as tourists maybe take a bunch of digital photos or even cell phone camera photos all the time and send the images to friends at home right away. Also, the images on the souvenir postcards do not necessarily convey what I feel about NOLA. It's nothing wrong, but my NOLA is not at all about Bourbon Street for instance. Yet, I like Mardi Gras or any festivity there while my friends grew up there are usually saying that they are a bit tired of it.
So, since I have many many photos I have taken in New Orleans over the past eight years, I decided to create my own NOLA postcards. It has my own notes already on the back as well as my address. Viewers are free to take some, address them and send them to their friends.
Probably everybody has their own idea/image of each region, city, country. I often enjoy others' images of Japan for instance.
I am not sure how the next artist, Claudia Weber will work on my postcards........ (She is nervous since she is very much a studio practice artist who creates her installation work at her studio, not spontaneously. ) It's a huge artistic challenge, and she just got sick. I hope she is all right, but I'm sure she'll do something interesting.
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