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Archives for August 2009
Shopdropping Beijing — Olympic Intervention
I meant to add this to the Related Projects section ages ago…but better late than never?
A group of 24 experimental poets in China altered books and planned to shopdrop 12,000 copies of 24 poems in stores, bookshops and shopping malls throughout Beijing during the Olympics. The general theme was “Olympics-related poetry” that avoided the [...]
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña’s Homegrown project.
Zoë & I both exhibited shopdropping projects at the DUMBO Arts Center a few years back in the Point of Purchase show curated by Gretchen Wagner. Her projects are very thoughtful and well done. This piece includes a shopdropping component but be sure to check out her Shopdropping pieces as well.
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
Shopdropping in Italy – July 2009
I was in Venice from July 14 – 24 with a grant from Tulane University to see the 2009 Biennale. I shopdropped a set of the new “Mixed Germ Cell” cans at the Coop Supermarket near Piazzale Roma while I was there. Documentation coming soon.
Cildo Meireles, a legitimate predecessor of the shopdropping [...]
Shopdropping Exhibition (Ryan WH NYC solo show) @ Heist Gallery
For a 2009 exhibition at Heist Gallery in NYC, we took shopdropping one step further. To properly display this project in a gallery, but also within its original context, we needed to transform the space into a passable store. Leading up to the opening we announced that the gallery was going out of business and [...]
Shopdropping Montreal exhibit at the Montreal Biennale
Artist Natalie Reis and designer Vanda Daftari of Shopdropping Montreal displayed a shopdropping installation at the Montreal Biennale in May of 2009.
http://www.biennalemontreal.org/en/shopdropping-
