VS Newsletter #15| July 2020 | Open the Black Boxes! Open call in the era of Coronavirus
We are very excited to inform you that the art project Open the Black Boxes expands its journey as a global participatory digital project via its updated website and in collaboration with Vital Space –our global, interdisciplinary, cross-media art platform addressing the pressing issues of our time. Open the Black Boxes is an art project that provides free access to an ongoing open source database created by mapping people’s hopes and fears.
In the era of Coronavirus Vital Space and artist Danae Stratou reactivate the open call by inviting people from around the world to participate once more in the project, by submitting online the One Word which best reflects what threatens them the most, or what they are desperately eager to preserve. Your input will be fundamental to the success of the project in order to help us understand our collective predicament.
We kindly invite you to Open the Black Boxes!
Participate in your own language by submitting your one word here
In this time of multiple crises and uncertainty, marked by a global pandemic, economic depression, mass riots, police brutality, raising nationalisms and environmental disaster, we invite you to capture the pulse on the current situation. The submitted words by people from around the world will be presented digitally as unique innovative infographics that can be filtered by age, gender and country of the participants. Gathered without intermediaries, the words will become an extremely valuable record of our time: raw materials for artists, researchers, and people from every walk of life to make sense of the present crisis and reimagine our future.
The related installation It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes! has been exhibited in major European cities since its inaugural exhibition in Athens, Greece (2012). The project has travelled amongst others to Krems, Austria (2016), Paris, France (2017), Mallorca, Spain (2017), London, UK (2018), Ghent, Belgium (2019), with many thousands of participants submitting their words.
We are counting on receiving your word!
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