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queer public space takeover postering wank-out!!!
looking for love in all the wrong places is an independent artist-curatorial project that commissions and produces limited edition silkscreened posters for public spaces in Alberta and beyond. Collaboration, exhibition and discussion of safe spaces and networking strategies are at the foreground of each series of posters. Posters that are selected are produced in editions of 100, and postered in far ranging cities including Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver, Dallas, Chicago, Berlin and beyond. Contributors who are chosen for production and distro of their poster receive an artist fee, project documentation and 2 full sets of posters for their own use.
To date, the project has included collaborations with Daryl Vocat (Toronto), Karen Campos (Edmonton), Megan Morman and Cindy Baker (Saskatoon), Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Winnipeg) and Anthea Black (Calgary) with a special postcard edition by Carol Maxwell (Texas).
Queer artists and activists are invited to send submissions of 2-3 colour silkscreen poster designs in the following formats:
-SIZE: any dimensions up to 17 X 22 (cutouts and tiled designs welcome)
-IMAGE + PREP: images should be high contrast (linear drawings, text, shapes) separated into transparency layers for each of the planned colours. Please include a hard copy of the master design as you would like it to appear in the final poster with colour samples or Pantone #s. Please attach written notes about how your final image should appear. If you're familiar with the silkscreening process, a set of transparencies on acetate or vellum would be much appreciated. Once accepted for production, poster artwork files should be submitted on mac-formatted disk. For more silkscreening know-how, check out Shannon Gerard's tutorial for No Media Kings at:
http://nomediakings.org/doityourself/howto_silkscreen_posters_and_shirts.html
-THEMES: "looking for love in all the wrong places" could refer to anti-queerbashing, queer public safety, public sex, lesbionage, raucous public displays of radical queer affection, outdoor meeting spaces for networking + organizing, queertopias, gentrification + failed gayborhoodz, your city's mass queer exodus or seeking partners...in crime!
Also include:
-A BLURB/BIOGRAPHY ABOUT YOU + YOUR WORK
-3-5 IMAGES of your past artwork: posters, zines, stickers, performances, video projects etc.
-YOUR NAME, ADDRESS and CONTACT INFO
-SASE for anything you would like returned to you
New submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. Send queeries and submissions to:
hello@lookingforloveinallthewrongplaces.ca
looking for love in all the wrong places has been made possible through the generous support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (2007), Alberta Printmakers, The Banff Centre and the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP). Thank you to all the artists, activists, curators and collectives for their valuable support of the project: Wendy Tokaryk, Mikhail Miller, Lindsay Everatt, Shannon Stratton, Erin Legare, Nicole Burisch, Bryn Evans, Jasmine Valentina, Carol Maxwell, Onya Hogan Finlay, Morgan Sea Thompson, JD Drummond, Paige Gratland and Ted Kerr.
image credit: 24 Hour Anti-Racist Zone photographed in Kensington, June 2007; QUEER REVOLT and french postcard ladies by Erin Legare and Anthea Black; postered image of Fraternity: Diaspora, NYC; Tisha B'av by Tobaron Waxman from LTTR Number 4 Do You Wish To Direct Me?
