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Papergirl Brisbane
3. 2. 2012
White Canvas Gallery, 26 Church St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia

We are informing you about the exhibition project of art group KOLEKTIVA, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

KOLEKTIVA was invited to participate in a project Cross City Experience #07 organized by Australian artist and curator Travis Dewan in the frame of his online platform Vegas Spray.

Trawis Dewan already presented himself and his project Vegas Spray to Slovene audience IN scca Project Room as a World of Art guest lecturer in 2011, when he was lecturing about options for on-line intercultural collaboration and curatorial practices.

Together with an Australian cultural initiative Papergirl Brisbane KOLEKTIVA group launched a new project in the frame of their platform Special Place in the City. Papergirl is a Berlin initiated art event that sees people giving free art to random strangers. The project is organized in various cities worldwide. Papergirl Brisbane is a cultural initiative which works to bridge the gap between the wider public of Brisbane, and the local artists and writers who live here. In the style of American paperboys, art and writing is collected from the local creative community, exhibited in a gallery, rolled up, and then distributed by bicycle to the random passers-by in Brisbane’s CBD.

In the frame of Papergirl Brisbane project special places KOLEKTIVA collected with the help of an online form. KOLEKTIVA interpreted the stories in handwritten descriptions of places each including a map of the location. We are hoping that people who will receive the stories from Papergirl Brisbane cyclists will visit these places.

KOLEKTIVA, iz projekta Special Place in the City - Brisbane (2011-12)

Papergirl Brisbane is organizing an exhibition and community rolling workshop of submitted artworks.
Date: 3rd February 2012
Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm
Location: White Canvas Gallery, 26 Church St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia

Papergirl artwork distribution and community ride is scheduled for Saturday, 4th February 2012.

Links:

• Papergirl Brisbane Event Schedule
• More about the project in Brisbane
• Special places in Brisbane

KOLEKTIVA is an art group from Slovenia which was established in 2008. The three members of the group Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič have worked on occasional common projects since 2003. Their projects are focused on various aspects of communication, inter-personal relationships and everyday life. They often engage with the various public such as individuals, art public, passersby or specially target groups and invite them to take an active part in the creative process and become the source and co-authors of the work. They understand the process of art making as a means of immagination, negotiation, exchange and cooperation.

[Published February 3, 2012]