Symbiont Poster Totes
This project was an extension of the Climate Crisis Paste-up project. Instead of sticking up posters on public walls, I printed the posters on fabric. I then made tote bags to give away in the public area, referencing the "guerrilla kindness" of Sayraphim Lothian. The totes will then become mobile posters moving with the owners, and in return, the owners receive the service of storage and transport. What an excellent productive and co-constitutive relationship! The intrinsic down-to-earth nature of the tote bag carries the narrative further and broader into the public. It gently invades hearts and effortlessly generates discourse and reflection on human and non-human entanglement.
Inspired by a studio about instruction-based artwork and preparing for our work for the Museum for Public Space in Bologna, 'Propositions for Public Space,' I created instructions. I printed them on a shirt to help the passer-by understand the context of this act. On the front, it said, "care, Free, empathy," at the back, it said, "Adopt a symbiont poster tote, Free, please bring the symbiont to the public and transform the ruined universe by imagination and proposition of stories." I then stood on street corners around Melbourne's central business district, distributing my poster totes to the general public.
The following video clip documented one of the gifting act happened at the intersection of Victoria Street and Cardigan Street in Carlton on June 2021.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqqreu4i6pu1svg/Tote gifting event.mp4?dl=0
This project was an extension of the Climate Crisis Paste-up project. Instead of sticking up posters on public walls, I printed the posters on fabric. I then made tote bags to give away in the public area, referencing the "guerrilla kindness" of Sayraphim Lothian. The totes will then become mobile posters moving with the owners, and in return, the owners receive the service of storage and transport. What an excellent productive and co-constitutive relationship! The intrinsic down-to-earth nature of the tote bag carries the narrative further and broader into the public. It gently invades hearts and effortlessly generates discourse and reflection on human and non-human entanglement.
Inspired by a studio about instruction-based artwork and preparing for our work for the Museum for Public Space in Bologna, 'Propositions for Public Space,' I created instructions. I printed them on a shirt to help the passer-by understand the context of this act. On the front, it said, "care, Free, empathy," at the back, it said, "Adopt a symbiont poster tote, Free, please bring the symbiont to the public and transform the ruined universe by imagination and proposition of stories." I then stood on street corners around Melbourne's central business district, distributing my poster totes to the general public.
The following video clip documented one of the gifting act happened at the intersection of Victoria Street and Cardigan Street in Carlton on June 2021.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqqreu4i6pu1svg/Tote gifting event.mp4?dl=0