Back from Manifesta-8

Our Temporary Art Souvenir shop in Murcia turned into quite a sucess – press coverage in the papers and even on the telly! Here’s a couple of pictures of Hedwig Feijen, Manifesta’s director, visiting the shop.
And here carefully avoiding the busts I made of her…

Although the shop’s finished, maybe my souvenirs of Ibn Arabi orange papers will have an extended life as on the very last day of the shop in Murcia a chap showed up asking lots of technical questions about them and it turned out that he was a specialist in printing orange papers, with a factory in Murcia – the bloke I’d been seeking for the last 3 months! I’d ended up printing the papers myself using rubber stamps I made on the laser cutter at Protospace which is a very labour intensive process, and prone to a lot of mis-prints.
Anyway, this chap is happy to collaborate by letting me print less than the standard 200kg minimum (which is two-hundred-thousand papers!), per design, and by helping arrange distribution on fruit through a Murcian grower, and I even hope it will be possible to distribute an Arabic version via a Syrian fruit merchant too (Damascus is the site of Ibn Arabi’s tomb). Would be nice as I feel the plan has more potential than has been got out of it so far.
More photos of the project at Manifesta-8 on the TEMPORARY ART SOUVENIRS page.

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