COPYSHOP

Dear all!  

I cordially invite you all to the opening of COPYSHOP, I project I am involved with that opens TOMORROW NIGHT at c3 contemporary art space! ARGH! You may be wondering why I only mentioned this now, the truth is that I only JUST found out about it, and it sounded so good I couldn't resist joining in!

This project promises to be super fun and exciting, with 'real-live artists' making 'real-live work' in the space throughout the duration of the show. So if you can't make the opening, do come along to the space this THURSDAY, where my collaborator Carmel Seymour and myself will be copy-shopping.

More details below!

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GALLERY 3
COPYSHOP
Created by Jon Butt and Simon MacEwan
SCOTT MITCHELL + SIMON MACEWAN
VIVIAN COOPER SMITH + JO SCICLUNA
DANAE VALENZA + SALOTE TAWALE
CARMEL SEYMOUR + LUCY JAMES
Collaborative fine art print services by Colour Factory
Copier service by Toner Express

Reflecting on c3’s interest in a group oriented, activity based collaborative processes, the COPY-SHOP project involves 8 artists working together as ‘employees’ of a staged photocopy shop within the gallery.
 

The selected artists all work in quite different ways yet have been paired on the basis of a certain affinity between their practices, choosing partnerships that will produce exciting and unexpected results.
 

A result of these collaborations will be limited-edition archival quality print editions. The COPY-SHOP itself will consist of a studio working area for the artists complete with a museum grade archival printer and a showroom where the resultant prints are displayed and sold.
 

The visible inclusion of the artists themselves (making work in public) calls attention to the ambiguous commerce of the art world, where what is being purchased is not simply an object; but a connection to a set of ideas, to the authorship of those ideas and ultimately a relation to the life that they came from.
 

This work is presented as a companion piece to c3’s Art Fair Project Space.

c3 contemporary art space, 1 St Heliers Street Abbotsford, 3067

Hours: Wed–Sun 10am-5pm, Mon–Tue closed

FYI: This information has been completely copied from the c3 blog - thanks Jon Butt for his words!