When the City Speaks: The City is the Stage - Open Submission

Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to create art derived and inspired by it.

Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the urban exploration.

Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground scene, the banal everyday things that often goes unnoticed and more. The visual language and symbolism in the city space.

Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting, drawing, collage, photography, etc..

Programme
This programme will run in three city, starting with Liverpool (UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.

If you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com

For further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or
www.transvoyeur.co.uk