Im-pression 2006, Grafisch Centrum HogeDRUKgebied

Im-pression 2006, Grafisch Centrum HogeDRUKgebied, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (September 16 - October 7, 2006)

Im-pression 2006, mail art & digital art is an "international artistic manifestation" organized from Rotterdam by the Centre for Graphic Arts "hogeDRUKgebied". Artists from all over the world using mail art or digital art have been invited to participate. 85 artists from 24 countries have responded by sending striking protests and minimalist suggestions using sober black & white and hundreds of colours, photographs, digital collages or reproductions of their painting, etching or poetry.
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For this exhibition, I digitally-altered the cover of The Economist (August 19 - 25, 2006) magazine to 'erase' the original poster image.

Conflux 2006

Conflux 2006, various locations, Brooklyn, New York, USA (September 14 - September 17, 2006)

Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. www.confluxfestival.org

For Conflux 2006, I contributed an essay which uses the script from the Rebel Press edition of "Society of the Spectacle and Other Films" by Guy Debord. The notes on the visual content, sub-titles and musical accompaniment remain the same, with a new commentary replacing the original written voiceover. This essay can also be found in full at www.cgclarke75essays.blogspot.com as A New Script for Guy Debord's Critique of Separation, 1961.

Terror?, Intersection for the Arts

Terror? at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA (September 11 - November 11, 2006)

Terror? includes hundreds of original works from all over the world - creating a cacophony of personal and collective response to some of the most immediate questions and issues of our times. What is terror? Who perpetrates it? How does fear control us, and the world around us? Who are we taught to be afraid of, why? What does fear cost? Where does personal fear intersect with larger societal and political messages of terror? In addition to an exhibition in our gallery, Terror? includes a film screening, readings, public discussions and performance.

For my contribution to Terror? I exhibited Suspicious Package no. 3, a sealed envelope posted to the gallery without a return address. I e-mailed Intersection for the Arts ahead of the exhibition to warn them to expect an unknown package and that this wasn't to be opened, but rather shown as a piece in its own right. This work was informed by the outbreak of packages containing anthrax which were posted shortly after September 11th, 2001, and the hysteria which was caused by this. This seems like the natural consequence of the terrorist act; the cloud of suspicion which such a gesture subsequently casts on the everyday and the mundane.