Feb 28
Blanche: I sent out ten letters (each with varying amounts of money in) on Thursday, requesting the receivers send something to the PO Box in return. Hopefully the money will be an added incentive to post them! I might follow this up by inviting the whole street to send material to the box, to see if anything interesting emerges from this demographic. Also, re Paulo’s point that we should be opening the call for submissions to a broader audience, I was thinking that perhaps we could put an ad out on artsjobs? We could include the ‘manifesto’ we work up from our sentences to provide a bit more info about the project. And perhaps ask for their postal addresses so we can continue mapping the demographic of those people sending material to the PO Box. What do you think?
Mar 3
Blanche: I also found the experience of delivering the letters an interesting one. I wasn’t too discriminating and just chose the ten houses next to my flat. But I think this made me more anxious as, if I was caught, people might know where I live (even though I don’t know any of my neighbours). The amount of money I included in each envelope decreased the further away I got from the flat so it will be interesting to see if what is sent back reflects this.
Mar 6
Paulina: I have also been looking at how relationships are formed through exchange. I am making sets of envelopes to distribute in different streets. Each set is like a series of little artworks, that I am documenting before sending. I wanted to instigate a creative response, on the one hand to encourage a reply from the recipient and on the other to somehow affect their reply. Even if none come back some sort of creative exchange has already been made in the giving of these envelopes in the first place. I wanted to give time to each envelope, the drawn series was particularly laborious, so a gesture has been made from the start. As the mapping project develops we might find that a great number of streets need to be covered before we receive a response but this
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will only help to build an interesting cartography (particularly as we are covering space on foot). I plan to respond with further creative exchanges to build a dialogue with those that respond, letting the exchanges shape my responses. I have recorded individual addresses for various envelopes. I hope this will follow in line with the great ideas raised above about long term projects; having art on view in people’s homes, archiving and exchange.
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