OPEN CALL | Shopdropping

SHOPDROPPING OPEN CALL:

Deadline: November 1, 2005

Shopdropping is an ongoing project in which I alter the packaging of canned goods and then "shopdrop" the items back onto grocery store shelves.

Shopdropping strives to take back a share of the visual space we encounter on a daily basis. Similar to the way street art stakes a claim to public space for self expression, Shopdropping subverts commercial space and activities for artistic use.

Shopdropping website: http://www.shopdropping.net

I am currently organizing an open call to create a large collaborative Shopdropping installation.

Please submit all types of works on paper: photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, computer printouts, etc.etc. but please no cardboard, heavyweight paper, or other “thick” surfaces that won’t adhere easily to the cans.

All submitted materials should be 4 inches by 9.5 inches. Please send 2 copies of each submission so that one set can be “shopdropped” into grocery stores and another set can be displayed as a group project in a gallery in NYC.

Also, please include $1 US per submission to help cover the cost of buying canned goods. (I’m not making any money off of this but if I get 100 submissions that’s 200 cans of beans.)

Please include your name, or alias with your submission. Please include your email address with your package so that I can confirm that I received your work, and keep you updated on how the project is going.

If you have any questions please let me know at ryan@relapsed.net

I look forward to hearing from you!

See http://www.shopdropping.net for more info and images of past Shopdropping installations.

Send all work to:

Ryan Watkins-Hughes // SHOPDROPPING.NET

194 Adelphi Street First Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11205

Deadline: November 1, 2005