Shy (dissolution + exchange)

Shy (dissolution + exchange)	2010–2014	conceptual mail art project	inimitables
		Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillips	network
In collaboration with 61 other participants throughout the southern hemisphere

 

Conceptual mail art project. Size variable: wall work 147 x 267 cm			$3300
photocopies, animated GIF, envelopes, table, 62 participants
Project: Propositions	2010–2014	Southern Hemisphere
Exhibition: Melbourne 2010: How Can a Network…?	2010	West Space, Melbourne
Exhibition: Yonder	2012	Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

  A network of mail artists, contemporary artists and non-artists in Australia, South Africa, Botswana, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand receive a photocopy, make two copies, send one to Fremantle Western Australia and one to the next person on a list ordered by longitude. In this way the image of the Shy Albatross will dissolve as it is repeatedly copied around the world. As the image decays a network is made and the imprint of a bird that migrates around the earth reminding us of the borderless nature of the Southern Ocean.