Josh Cleminson will be performing and installing his $36.00/hr project today. Cleminson will be leaving 36 dollars’ worth of pennies on the street, giving any passerby the opportunity to pick them up, allowing them to earn, potentially, $36.00/hr. If you’d like to see this project in action, head to the intersection of Queen Street West and University Avenue.

Just as a footnote, expect more updates about tinygrants soon.

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I was interviewed yesterday by Amy Conger of Straw Into Gold. You can listen to the show here.

* 02/15/10 – I’ve been meaning to update this post with a correction for some time now. In the interview, I talked about how student-artists are ineligible to apply for funding through municipal, provincial and federal councils. I also mentioned that it was possible for tinygrants to receive funding as non-profit organization. And for some reason I said I would be ineligible to apply for operational funding through this avenue as a student, which is completely false. Registering tinygrants as a non-profit would mean incorporating tinygrants as an entity, thereby making my status as a student irrelevant to the eligibility of tinygrants (as an organization) for funding. Just wanted to clear that up and apologize for the error.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on December 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM, filed under News and tagged amy conger, interview, straw into gold. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink. This post currently has no responses.

The Pocketology Collective will present ONSITE tomorrow! I hope to see you there–with pockets ready to be emptied!

ONSITE
The Pocketology Collective
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
FIXT Point Studio
1550 Queen Street West
Toronto (map)

“ONSITE is a performative installation. It is an invitation initiated by The Pocketology Collective to reinvigorate public engagement through investigating and excavating the stories that lay within our pockets.

“ONSITE can be set up in any urban space. It involves a story exchange station where Pocketologist-participants are invited to dig into their pockets, produce a pocket artifact and share a story about the item anonymously. Participants are given the opportunity to write their own narrative based on the contents of their pockets. They will seal the written stories along with the pocket artifact in an envelope, which will be installed on a wall full of other visually stunning envelopes. In exchange, each participant will share another person’s pocket story in an ongoing storytelling circle. It is an evolving gallery of the interactive social landscape of Toronto and a rehearsal for a society in which spontaneous moments of connection occur between strangers.”

The Pocketology Collective is a collaboration of three interdisciplinary artists: Rachel Ellison, Coleen MacPherson and Camille Turner.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on December 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, filed under Projects and tagged camille turner, coleen macpherson, onsite, rachel ellison, the pocketology collective. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink. This post currently has no responses.