For Love Not Money:
A Global Mail Art Collaboration

This international collaboration between students, faculty, and artists from academic and professional institutions around the world will be inspired by and potentially exhibited at the 15th Tallinn Print Triennial.  The theme for the Triennial and for this collaborative project is FOR LOVE NOT MONEY. (We are also proposing to exhibit it at the 2011 International IMPACT Conference in Sydney, Australia.)

Concept (excerpts taken from the 15th Tallinn Print Triennial concept statement):

…FOR LOVE NOT MONEY is intended to present a timely reflection on the state of contemporary art production, presentation and reception − during a period of world financial crisis. It also encapsulates a reflection of the status of ‘printmaking’ within the hierarchy of contemporary art practice and production…

…In the English language the aphorism “for love not money” describes any labour that is undertaken for passionate and not pecuniary reward − it is almost interchangeable with the equally aphoristic “a labour of love”…

…The phrase also possesses a distinct cultural mien as it can be used to describe the plight of the young and/or struggling artist be they an actor, visual artist, director, or writer. Any person that sets out on a career in-the-arts knows that just making-a-living at what they have trained to do represents a modicum of success. They make their art − for love not money…

… A range of concepts embodied within the project's title, include addiction, desire, dedication, duty, family, love, lust, objectification, romance, religion, political commitment, and sex…

ZGŁOSZENIA PROSZE KIEROWAĆ NA ADRES: m-pawlowski@o2.pl