cadre: the $10 artist grant

This is a CADRE update.
As you know, Collaborator’s Guide, is in full progress and we wanted to let you know what has been happening!

Both Bethany and Selwa have formed two groups in London and Tokyo. Our collective now includes seven members for the project (which we have nicknamed CADRE project for now).

Communicating between Tokyo and London.

Our original goal of working with a newer and bigger group, long-distance, is materializing, and we are dealing with administrative and creative solutions to enable this. Archiving our research, enabling all of us to challenge the concept democratically and synchronizing conversations between Tokyo and London are important parts of our process!

We recently started using a new online tool called Activecollab (activecollab.com). The tool is opensource (free and shared). This tool is helping us archive and manage the process as well as exchange information! We are just demo-ing the software to other Collaborator’s Guide members and have uploaded some notes/case studies/files.

Meanwhile, during our process of finding new like-minded individuals to work on this collaborative event/installation with us, we have also been visiting and assessing spaces. This has been a fun and interesting process. Tokyo galleries and some UK galleries charge for showing work (aside from commissions) so while visiting spaces to assess size, interest, location, cost we are also investigating non-traditional spaces.

Proposed Calendar.

ongoing: introducing our concept to artists, gallerists, creatives and receiving feedback about appropriate spaces/opening our concept to questions.
May 20: questionnaires and first meetings with new members of Tokyo group.
May-June: re-evaluating goals. conversations in cultural differences between tokyo and london (and what to portray in the exhibit).

July 5: questionnaire and first ‘official’ meeting of London group.
July 2-9: mini-exercise. Collaborator’s Guide member will exchange detailed journals of each day to share a more intimate picture of our relationships with Tokyo and London (and get to know each other better, faster).
10 July: all members receive short training on how to add info to activecollab tool and the blog.
28 July: tokyo vs. london ‘meet n greet’ for all members to get to know eachother via online web chat as well as other forms of introduction, possibly a meal, an gift exchange of some sort.

Start of August: second group exercise after agreed concept refinement.
August: fundraising, prep-time, making, sourcing materials….
Sept: final stages of workshop, exhibition/show.

We hope this finds you well and we will email again with an update in a few months!
Please feel free to email thoughts or concerns.

Thanks so much,
Bethany and Selwa

Family Geography

Bronwyn Hughes, Melissa Kaseman, and Jessamyn Lovell

RayKo Photo Center
428 Third Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

415-495-3773

closes Wednesday, May 30, 2007

This exhibition of photographs explores geography and space as it relates to family using environmental portraits, landscapes, and abstractions of space as seen by three CCA alumni. Places can serve a similar purpose in that they hold valuable stories and emotions that all come rushing back just by visiting the place. In a way the act of photographing these places and the people within them creates a link to the past, through the artists’ eyes. Stories are told, secrets are revealed and additional layers unfold.

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http://www.jessamynlovell.com