Sorry for the delay – Images uploading now!

The uploading of images has taken a bit longer than first expected, and as we said all images will be viewable on the web page soon. The final selection is just being processed and artists will be let know the selection for this project in the next day or two.

Sorry again for the delay, and thanks for your patience

Sharon

UPDATE….____________________________________

Images are being uploaded now, to www.postedproject.wordpress.com

Thanks to all who have submitted for POSTED 1!

SKART would like to thank the 87 artists who have submitted images/texts to our first international poster project. Selection will be taking place during this week, and we will (hopefully) have an answer by May 1st. All the image that have been submitted will be viewable on this site in the next few days, and please feel free to comment on what you think.

Thanks again

SKART

POSTED 1 – submission deadline 21st April, and selection date

Submission deadline is 21st April, when all submissions will be posted on this blogpage – or a dedicated website if we have been granted funding by then..

A shortlist will be selected by SKART members, which will then be narrowed down to 12 images/texts in collaboration with our co-curators. A final selection will be announced on 1st May, when all artists will be contacted.

The start date for display of the posters is either the 12th or 18th June (to be confirmed) to run for 2 weeks.

POSTED 1 – an international inter-disciplinary poster project

POSTED 1

POSTED 1 will be a curated international poster project of 12 selected artists, presented in June this year in 12 venues across the world simultaneously, and on a project website. Submission will be free, and open to all artists who’s work can be represented in A3 poster format. The website will be the hub of the project: it will include a curated gallery of submissions; documentation from each venue; and a public discussion forum.
For this project we have invited two established professionals also based in Cork to co-curate with us:

Rene Zechlin, (Curator of Exhibitions and Projects, Glucksman Gallery, Cork), Trevor Joyce, (Contemporary Poet, Founder and Chair of SoundEye International Poetry Festival)

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 how advertisers have appropriated public wall spaces.
In 1960 Paul Goodman (Compulsory Miseducation, Penguin, 1960),
U.S. literary and social critic, argued that
“… when the purpose of advertising was to give information… it was useful to be able to read; when the point of advertising is to create synthetic demand, it is better not to be able to read.”

Could the same be said of visual literacy? When the purpose of images is to stimulate, inspire, inform, challenge, etc. it is useful to recognise and pay attention to the images; when the point of images is purely as an advertising tool (whether for a product or the artist) would it be better to not notice or pay attention?
We want to show this project in social area of multi-disciplinary art venues, because we are interested in bringing art-forms together, and showing work outside the formal gallery space.

POSTED 1 will be presented in two formats – online and as a printed exhibition.
The website (www.skartpostedproject.ie – under construction) will be the hub of the entire project. It will contain: -information identifying each image in the printed exhibition with the artist who’s work it depicts.
-a gallery of all submissions.
-a forum to facilitate open discussion on the selections and the selection process,
-a gallery documenting each stage of the POSTED project in each host venue, with images taken by the hosts.
- links to participating and selected artists, artists groups, support organisations, gallery spaces.
- links to relevant artists’ networks and resources around the world

To submit an image or text, or for any further information, please email skartincork@gmail.com

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For POSTED 1 , SKART will be Sharon McCarthy, Kevin Tuohy, Cian McConn