Project February 29th 2008

6 Continents – 12 artists – 1 Day „The lost and regained day February 29th 2008“

On February 29^th 2008 under the topic localGLOBAL, 12 artists from 6 continents worked on an “OneDayWork” after reading the most read newspaper of their city or even country. After this day no artist continued to work on their work.

“... The globality as well as the abolishment of distance were essential to this project. With the chronological parallelism of the different time zones the aspect of time was intrinsic. The period of this ‘regained’ day almost doubled to 43 hours...’ (Artmagazine Junge Kunst 2008)

This global project was realized on February 29 2008 (leap year) through the participating 12 "intercontinental" and contemporary working artists from the countries New Zealand (Doc Ross), Australia (Sarah Robson), India (Rathin Kanji), UAE (Talal Moualla), Namibia (Cecile Heystek), Morocco (Mountassir Chemao), Romania (Stefan Balog), Germany (Yasemin Yilmaz), Argentina (Perla Bajder), Bolivia (Raquel Schwartz) and 2x USA (Paul Campbell) and (Patricia Goodrich), each with one "One Day Work". Each artist has used as a “proof” the daily or newspaper of his/her city/country in his/her work. 

The complete work symbolizes one global day, produced in an age in which the element of time demonstrates an extremely fast-moving moment.

There live approximately 6.5 billion people distributed on 6 continents, (excluding Antarctica and with America divided into North and South.) The 12 artists of this project symbolize, in a minimized manner, the world.  Here they are represented with respectively 2 artists per continent.   

Before the age of the Internet persons of similar interests may have formed communities within the same places, either within cities or countries. Larger communities were also formed, though chiefly through political and economic interests, across countries. Now through the Internet, groups of similar interests can come together at all levels to exchange, develop, and compete with one another.     

The project uses art as an instrument to provide viewers different insights into the themes of “Globalization”, “Connections”, and “Time.”  This exhibit shows how through the use of the Internet artists can each make individual works of art and still be linked by a theme thus coming together in a common global purpose.  It also shows the extent to which motions of “significance” and “insignificance” can play out in one day in the life of each person.

The span of this project covers the time from February 29 th 2008 to February 29 th 2012. Through the upcoming exhibition tour it can be considered as a project in process. It is divided into three phases.

Project phase 1                    Creating the work of art on 29.02.08

Project phase 2                   Travelling exhibition in the participating artist’s countries, an accompanying documentary film and a final thesis about the project

Participated artists of project February 29th 2008 - Sarah Robson (Australia), Stefan Balog (Romania), Yasemin Yilmaz (Germany), Mountassir Chemao (Morocco), Paul Campbell (USA), Patricia Goodrich (USA)

 

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"GLOBALIZATION-CONNECTIONS-TIME - FEBRUARY 29th 2008"                                      ~ 350 x 450 cm 137 x 176 inch mixed media