Some are more equal than others: Discuss. Now that equality's currently hot on the political agenda (though any party's ambition for it to happen isn't showing any more enthusiasm than the prayer of the young, pre-sanctity St Augustine: Make me chaste Lord, but not yet), with the degree show period just behind us and the artfair weekend looming ahead under the shadow of the credit crunch, studio1.1 is offering an artist a genuine four-week show for the sum of £10. There will be no judging of the entries, there will be no limit upon the type or size of work (entrants are encouraged to be as ambitious as possible). To reflect the profoundly chancey way individuals are snatched sometimes apparently at random, from the art-masses by the market and as easily cast aside, we are countering the prevailing hit-and-miss who-you-know and where-you-went-to-college network with a sincerely conceived lottery. All the artist will need to do is produce the work: studio1.1 will devote the same care to staging the winning show as if we had chosen it personally. All funds will go entirely to subsidising the show and the gallery’s overheads - as an artist-run not-for-profit space studio1.1 has been trying to square the circle of survival and innovation for six years. We do not show commercial art, we have always shown work first and foremost that is both serious and exciting. Our need to survive has never compromised our vision, and we're not planning to start now. In an artworld part of which is governed by faded traditions, and another part by faddish trends, everything about this show is unpredictable. We don't know what will happen and we're looking forward to finding out. Importantly, this is NOT a competition. It's a way, we hope, to generate new art from sources both familiar and unexpected, encouraging and inspiring as wide a range of responses as possible. At one and the same time an unmatched opportunity for the lucky artist can be a critique of the contemporary art system we all have to operate within or with reference to. The show will take place as part of the gallery's programme at a time in 2010 negotiated between us and the artist. And in a twist of perverse/reverse pragmatism, it will be entirely up to the lucky artist to reveal or not their status as lottery winner; though what we hope, certainly what we have in mind, is that winning by chance won't be seen as diminishing the show's status one iota. We'd like to think that being selected, at least this once, by fortune could be seen as no more than the lucky winner's due. The winer will be announced by a celebrity, this time of the gallery's choice, on the Frieze/Zoo weekend of the 19th October (because of course not the least important further facet of the scheme is as an anti-Frieze proposition). If only it could be everyone.
Always read the whole thing. While on it's face and at a glance this sounds like a good deal. But read carefully they want to you pay for a lottery ticket and then if you win, they will show your work but if they sell anything ALL of the funds go to the gallery.
"All funds will go entirely to subsidising the show and the gallery’s overheads"
Here is their explaination on another post on LinkedIn:
"studio1.1 in an experiment (both tongue-in-cheek provocation, all-out fund-raiser but also an utterly serious proposal), will be opening the gallery in 2010 to a four-week show by an artist selected entirely by lottery.
"Any artist, in any discipline, able to afford £10, may enter. 100 per cent of funds raised will go towards subsidising the show and the gallery’s running costs. Any artist, in any discipline, able to afford £10, may enter. 100 per cent of funds raised will go towards subsidising the show and the gallery’s running costs."
You have got to be kidding me!
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