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CALL: Eyelevel Gallery | 35 DAYS OF NON-ORGANIZED ART

Halifax April 23 – May 27, 2009

Posted by: Laurie McBurney on Thursday, March 19, 2009

Eyelevel Gallery invites emerging and established artists of all
disciplines to participate in an upcoming project called 35
Days of Non-Organized Art.

In celebration of its 35th anniversary, Eyelevel Gallery will open its gallery space to anyone who wants to present an exhibition, performance,
lecture, workshop, or any other kind of art-related event from
April 23 – May 27, 2009. The gallery encourages local as well as
national and international participation. For those are not in
Halifax or who can’t physically be in the gallery, we can help to
facilitate projects that take place from a remote location. We
also welcome art collaborations and collectives as well as
conceptual or experimental projects that may be conducted by
another individual and if possible, we can provide a volunteer
to carry out the activity.

The aim of this project is to provide public access to the gallery
and to provide an environment that supports creative,
spontaneous and interactive artistic production. For the
duration of the 35 Days project, the gallery will not “organize”
any of these events and will instead, serve to offer its space for
people to congregate and to “self-organize” art-related
activities. Space will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis
and participants can reserve the gallery for 1-3 days. During this
project, Eyelevel will be open every day of the week from noon – 7 p.m.and each Friday, there will be a reception/party for all participating artists and community members.

35 Days of Non-organized art will be presented as part of
Unplugged, a month long experiment in low-tech and creative
administration. For just over a month, Eyelevel will unplug
itself from its day-to-day reliance on computers and all other
forms of contemporary office technology, and will function as it
did when the gallery opened in 1974. All administrative
activities, including promotion and communication, will use
strategies such as: word-of-mouth, flyer postings, telephone
trees, and bulletin boards. In addition, the gallery will re-build
its office space as a kind of theatrical set, depicting the original
1974 gallery space. Artists who are participating in the
35 Days of Non-organized Art project are urged to create works that
respond to this idea of unplugging and to create works that do
not use any form of post-1974 technology or media.

If you would like to participate in 35 Days of Non-Organized
Art, please:

Send a letter or illustrated text (no emails) describing
what you would like to present and what day(s) (between April
23-May 27) you would like to reserve the gallery for your
project.

You may send this letter by mail or you can drop by the gallery
in person. Do not send support material, or a CV or anything
other than a half-one page letter describing your project.

. Please include your telephone number and mailing address
so we may respond/confirm your request for date selection

* Remember- Participants sign up on a first-come, first-serve
basis. Each individual may sign up for 1-3 days and collectives
or groups may reserve the gallery for up to four days.

Mail or drop off your letter to:
35 Days of Non-organized Art c/o Eyelevel Gallery
2063 Gottingen St. Halifax, NS Canada B3A 1L6