contested space: November 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Nearly almost

Spotter 2: There's a tv on Blythe st in Brunswick east just west of Carnarvon. South side of the street.

FeedMe: Thanks will do it today.

FeedMe: Here's your pic. Quoting a blog by the same name very nearly almost

Spotter 2: Thanks it looks great

Sunday, 6 November 2011

Hard Rubbish spotters needed

Spotter: Discarded television 4/16 Nicholson st fitzroy north

FM: Thanks I'll be there crack of dawn tomorrow.

NEXT DAY

FM: Are you having a lend of me? I'm on my way now and it just crossed my mind that you may be talking about the TV in your lounge room. Is it on the street?

Spotter: Yes it's out the front of an apartment block. The numbers change on Nicholson st. Go past holden st /Brunswick rd towards Brunswick. Across the road from the pope Joan cafe.

FM: great thanks for that it's a big drive across the river.

FM: Here's your photo and thanks for the spot the quote comes from a blog
called There ought to be silence

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Hard Rubbish Spotters Needed

Feedme is looking for spotters to help locate screens for this project. Everybody is trading up to digital flat screens but they’ll eventually run out so this project has only a limited life.

What do you need to do?

1. Send a text to 0417 588 172 when you notice a discarded TV sitting on the street and include the exact location.

2. I will make a piece in the street – yes in broad daylight. The TV with its new words stays where it was found. I photograph it and send the pic to your mobile phone.

3. I make a post on contestedspace1.blogspot.com including the photo, your SMS that located the TV and a link to the original website where the text came from.

4. If I can’t make it to the site and sometimes that happens or the TV has been removed before I make a work - I will text you.

Too easy – I make some art on the street and on the web, you get some art on your phone, the source blog gets some cred. and both the posts (old and new) get a new meaning by being connected up.