Sky Noise reflects on comics jams and the Australia component of the massive ‘You are Beautiful’ Exhibition now in Chicago. Our Melbs contingent was tipped as one of the top 20 favorite books!
Shags @ recent exhibition.
She actually gets paid for this stuff.
SNACK BAR ART SPACE
Date:
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
Snack bar is a new project using vending machines to sell art in public
spaces in the inner city of
accessible
to the general public and provides a free space for artists to distribute
their work. All proceeds from the project go directly to the artists. In
place of chips and chocolate bars, artists are invited to submit any kind
ofwork (within size restrictions) for sale.
Works could be:
* Jewellery
* Badges
* Found Objects
* Instructions
* Patches
* Ozines
* Comics
* Audio Tapes
* Prints
* Paintings
* Collage
* Textiles/Knitting/Crochet
* Sculptures
* Drawings
* Gadgets
* Flipbooks
* Toys
* Tools
* Toys
* Constructions
* Poetry/Prose
* Puppets
The works may be one offs or multiples and will be sold for $2 each, all
proceeds going to the artist. Works will be packaged in cardboard boxes
(which we can supply at no cost) which will also containing a brief artists
bio (see application) and a map of artist run spaces in
this project will be an anonymous gift to an anonymous stranger, the
artwork is an invitation to experience the Melbourne¹s independent art scene
Maximum size for works: 200mm tall/100mm wide/50mm deep. (From the size of
a small chocolate bar to the size of a 50gr packet of chips)
The location of the first vending machine is in the new café district in
will be installed in a pub in St Kilda or in the city shortly.
Contact Emma on 0433 352 679 or at snackbarartspace@hotmail.com for more
information
SUBMISSION DATES
First Round:
Second Round:
Third Round:
Project Launch Party in Late November, details TBA
Cambodia cartoonist Soeung Makara visits the World Comics Artist Conference in Bucheon, Korea.
Click for trip report and more photos.
