The #leaveamessage Day: Roads of the Unexpected

The Laws of Destiny and Chance are those that cannot be classified.

Randomness is something very much cherished in art: from the Surrealist's automatic painting, going through Pollock's famous drippings to mention what once Picasso is told to have said when asked about how his Blue Period developed: 'I ran out of other colours', he replied.
And just liked it so much as to carry on.

By the way, this is not a post about found objects, but found messages. Has it ever occurred to you to find an unexpected nice message in an unexpected place? I remember the 'secret admirer' when I was in Primary School. Love messages started to pop up in my pencil case or folded in the sandwich wrapping, and I perfectly knew it was some female classmates just taking the piss. I could match handwritings all right, even at eight. However, it was nice just to believe it, if only for a split second.
Even most interesting than this are those messages that perhaps weren't meant for us, but we find anyway. A lost letter. A post-it note stolen by the wind. A torn bit of words floating in the river.
A private message sent on Facebook to that not-so-famous-actor on his 40th birthday, just to let him know that you spared a thought for him and he's still gorgeous and you had a massive crush on him when you were eight and possibly never quite shook it. (embarassed cough)

It's like a treasure hunt, but you don't have to look for a treasure and you have no map. That something as simple as kind words is finding a way to come to you. Click.

Now you should take a further click, and read how come that this idea of the #leaveamessage day occurred to Wonderland. Just scroll down for the English version when you reach the post, and sign up if you feel like spreading some happy thoughts and cheers in the run up - or count down - to Christmas!

SAVE THE DATE: #leaveamessage day is Wednesday 14 December !

I like the idea of one of you, random readers, finding one of my messages. None of the two of us will never know, perhaps, but for a moment our distant lives would touch, and then turn back to normal.

Hopefully with a smile on our faces!

OPEN CALL

ARE YOU AN ARTIST? 
ARE YOU A CURATOR? 
ARE YOU BOTH?

WE NEED YOU!

SybinQ Art Projects is currently looking for London based artists and curators who would like to be in the performance Meeting Ring by Marco Dalbosco.

"What could be the action that puts in relation a collective meeting with art?

What is the act that artist and curator have in common? Is there a specific moment to highlight in which these two entities relate to one another?

The answer could be a collective meeting of artists and curators in which the most common gesture of one meets/collides with the most common gesture of the other.

Curators and artists, unaware of each other’s role, will meet on a hypothetic ring to make their own action according to the role defining them, everything under the gaze of curious and passers-by. 

Through random actions in this virtual ring, these two figures will be forced to confront one another choosing actions that either identify or defy their roles."

(Marco Dalbosco)

The performance will take place on WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER at 1:30 pm in the East End and will be featured on the Fitzrovia Map, produced by MD in collaboration with SybinQ Art Projects, along with all the other special events happening in the area during Frieze's week. 

Should you be interested, please send an email with your name and contact details to: curatingcontemporary@gmail.com

You will then be emailed the address of the performance and a few instructions: all you have to do is showing up on the date and have some fun! 

Deadline for applications: Saturday 9 October

Sometimes, I forget that a blog is a very powerful tool for promotion. If the stats are not fooling me (and I have remembered to disable the tracking of my own page views), there are quite a few people out there reading the stuff I write. Well, first of all, thank you.
Secondly, if you would like to join us for this performance (and some networking afterwards in front of a beer), even better.