How to contribute to the project
Posted: January 24th, 2012 | Author: TSBblogger | Filed under: Uncategorized | 34 Comments »Ever wonder what happened to get us here? Ever wonder if we could give a city a voice, become part of an overall fabric?
Nassau, What Happened? Is a group project that anyone can contribute to by adding his or her own line to a collective poem about the city of Nassau. It will be part of Transforming Spaces 2012 under the theme of “Fibre”.
Inspired by an exercise by the poetry festival O, Miami, this exercise is designed to bring many voices together at once in order to hint at a larger, complex voice.
If you’d like to contribute to the project, you need to commit to completing both parts.
Part one is to add a line in the comments. Not sure where to start? How can you add on to the last line? What does Nassau, What Happened? mean to you? How would you begin answering it? Feel free to rhyme or not, be as playful and as serious as you’d like, but always keep in mind the purpose of the poem. Please make sure it is only a line or two—leave space for others.
This page will only be open for comments from today February 11th-February 19th. Feel free to come back later and add another line if you really must, but keep in mind this is a collective voice, not a singular voice. Also keep in mind that the more lines you add, the more work you’ll create for yourself later. Here’s why:
The second part of the project is to take your line and bring it into the realm of the visual, capturing it in an image. Write your line somewhere, anywhere—spray painted on a sidewalk or on the crumbling wall of an abandoned building, scratched or scribbled over a photograph, collaged, painted, written on the body, scratched onto a leaf or into the dust of a car of fog on the window, whatever—and then scan it or photograph it. If you have contributed several lines to the poem, you must submit separate images, one for each line.
The deadline for your image(s) is March 4th in order to provide adequate time for the curator to compile the images into a series of projected images for Transforming Spaces 2012, to be shown on a continuous loop at The Hub art gallery.
Please send a high resolution (300 dpi) image to nassauwhathappened@gmail.com with your full name (or artist alias) so we can credit you properly. If you only complete the first half of this project and do not send the image by March 4th, your line will be removed from the collective poem and entire project. Please don’t write a line that can spark a second line from another contributor if you do not plan to commit to the project in its entirety. That would not be fair to the other contributors. This is a collective effort.
The curators and site moderators of Nassau, What Happened? reserves the right to remove a line that does not fit into the spirit of the project. Be innovative, be confrontational, be emotional if you’d like—in fact, we encourage it—but please don’t use this space to advertise your products or write offensive material that does not have anything to do with the project. Also, please don’t plagiarize.
By contributing to this project you understand your work will be displayed at The Hub art gallery for a period of time to be determined by the gallery, but which includes the 23rd and 24th of March 2012 for the Transforming Spaces Art Tour. You also understand your work may be displayed as part of a catalog for Transforming Spaces 2012 that will be sold during and after the tour; in a publication to be sold by Poinciana Paper Press; and as part of a slideshow on a blog so that it may be free and open to the public.
This is not a forum for debate. This is a poem. Read what’s already been added to the comments and begin to think about how you’d like your voice and line to function so we can all start finding the answer through innovative poetic language to “Nassau, What Happened?”
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