09 - Wipe

WIPE // Light-Weight Bookwork
submission address WIPE | Field Stydy | PO Box 1838 Geelong | VIC 3220 Australia
description

Send 40 sheets of printed toilet tissue. Open theme and technique, rubber-stamp,ectc.

No organic materials or traces please.

On going project, no deadline. Edition made every 20 participants.

Wipe is a small assembling publication in which toilet paper is the medium. The use of a non-archival, indeed anti-archival medium, is intentional, with the ephemerality and fragility of the medium in sharp contrast with the artistic concern for archival materials. Conceived as a playful lightweight publication to circumvent postage costs, Wipe nods to Duchamp’s urinal and challenges contributors to make work on a medium that is almost anti-art.

Contributors source their own toilet paper, a source of fascination in itself and a comment on the hygiene practices of different societies. In spite of its intended ephemerality, toilet paper allows rubber stamping, stitching, collaging, and even frottage.
extra

Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artist book collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies raised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.

Artists contributing will be sent a copy.
curator Field Study International
info fluxusstudy@hotmail.com
info daviddellafiora.blogspot.com
will be sold
medium toilet paper
required submissions 40
maximum dimensions 110 x 140 mm | 4.3 x 5.5 in