The Cheaper Show

The Cheaper Show is now accepting submissions! This is the 10th anniversary of the biggest art show in Vancouver! Last year’s event drew a crowd of over 7000 people in one night. Over 315 pieces of art were sold in a six hour period. Artists from Greater Vancouver, Canada and world-wide are invited to apply now to be a part of what has become the biggest one-night art show in Western Canada! Watch the video below. It's pretty intense how much people want to buy art.

200 artists. 400 pieces of work. 200 dollars per piece. One night only.

Want to be a part of this year’s show? Apply here.

The Incomplete Audio Component to a Work in Progress

Notation of Introduction

The following is an incomplete audio track that will eventually be submitted to a friend for an animation.

As fair warning, this sounds a bit like a slightly broken music box.
I meant to do that.

I think the first 2:50 are close to complete.
The final 38 seconds could probably benefit from a semi-heavy percussive cadence.
The indistinct percussive background toward the end is actually aging mechanisms of the piano's foot petals. I plan to somehow drown that out.  

(please allow 7 seconds before the audio track starts.)

Perfect Timing - Collaborate Instantly

I am currently thinking of a proposal for a sculpture park here in New York. Socrates Sculpture Park. And my project has an audience feedback aspect to it, but I think I want to start that feedback/interactive aspect before I even start the project. please help me make this idea even better. let me know anything you think would make this a stronger project.

oh yes, I have to submit this on monday, january 24th.

So my project is about treehouses.

I want to build 1 or 2 connected treehouses in this sculpture park, document me building it and broadcast that on the internet.

it has 3 main elements:

the performative aspect of the creation of the treehouses,

an audience participation/feedback aspect through online interaction, and

an environmental/educational aspect

(and as fourth element, personal exploration

the performative aspect

I will create this sculpture over the course of time, most likely in time blocks that could be considered performances. I am thinking of having weekly or monthly "build days", where I invite artists and non-artists to help me, creating a collaborative performance, this could go from a mime fucking around while I build stuff, to someone sharing knowledge of relevant topics like architectural advice or environmental building ideas.

This performance could then be video taped (in a pretty artsy way, maybe as collaboration with video artists, but also educational, I want every "episode" to teach something) and broadcast on a weekly or monthly basis. "home improvement show" meets "art 21 intros", "roofing" shot by michel gondry.

the audience participation aspect

I will have this project online, basically from now, before I submit the proposal, until I take down the treehouses. In the initial stage, before I even build, I want to create a forum for people to suggest ideas and work together on a blueprint for the best treehouse design. This way this project is an international collaboration between artists and non-artists. this could be a positive form of crowd-sourcing. I might also invite people from the forum to join me in the interactive performances, making the interaction between artist and audience a more personal one.

the environmental/educational aspect

I will build and teach green techniques, from warm water generation, to farming, or dealing with grey water. this will happen through the actual exhibit, being an object that documents alternative building methods and life practices, and through the weekly/monthly performances and video casts. I would like to involve local non-profits to do workshops (maybe as paart of the "performance"), or even companies to come and demonstrate the use of their product as long as they demonstrate something that can also be achieved without the use of their product.

These would also be featured on the web presence. where all the video pieces/how to's can be viewed at any time.

personal exploration

this not really being its own aspect since personal, and not really making the piece stronger

but I am interested in exploring...

the use of resources (tangible and intangible) that are available to us - for free

alternative building methods

tree architecture

anthropological ideas

the use of audience participation with a determining role in the creation of art

showing a positive use of contemporary information technology

the line between educational filmmaking and video art, and how to combine the two to make both stronger

...through this piece

ok, now participate and write me a comment with some feedback/suggestions/critiques