The Raise Hands All Those Mobile Mail Art Gallery

May 7 th 2005 at the Or Gallery - November 5 th 2005 at Gallery 101

Vancouver, Ottawa

The gallery was started by Bucky Fleur and Florentine Perro and will be displayed as part of the exhibition Raise Hands All Those at Gallery 101 in Ottawa in October 2005. Each participant is required to finish the phrase “Raise Hands All Those.....” and to write this sentence on the back of the postcard. The participant may decorate the card (or not) and sign the card with their name and contact info - or let their contribution remain an anonymous. All the participants names will be included in a bookwork that is being produced as part of the exhibition Raise Hands All Those at Gallery 101.

We have fabricated a small and charming mobile gallery for our post card collection. The gallery is made from steel with small wheels. It has a plexi-glass hood to keep out the wind and rain when it is in motion on road trips to various venues where the collection will be exhibited.

Current Contact Info:

Bucky Fleur
bucky_fleur@yahoo.co.uk
Florentine Perro
perroverlag@germanmail.com

How the Project Started:
Themes, Ideas, Strategies:

Remember when you raised your hand as a kid when you knew the answer? When you wanted to be chosen to be on the TEAM? OK maybe you weren't a jock and didn't want to be chosen for the team but you might have raised your hand for something else. This Mail Art project hopes to channel some of that early enthusiasm for joining in.

We chose a Mail Art project simply because we have a ton of postcards. We are collectors: of rubber dinosaurs and dwarf figurines and stickers and little books and postcards – to name but a few of our passions. "Why not recycle these art postcards into a project?" we thought. And thus the Raise Hand All Those Mobile Mail Art Project was born. We have sent out over 100 postcards to friends and family and acquaintances and colleagues asking them to finish the phrase Raise Hands All Those with the first thing that comes into their heads . We are hoping for a wildly enthusiastic response.

We have collected most of our postcards from galleries and museums around the world and if we receive a large return the gallery will also act as a mini-art history project - when you look through the postcard collection you will also receive a short non-chronological survey of western art - as well as a fun excursion into what the idea of raising hands means to other people. We are interested to see if participants add to the image or deface it or improve on it in any way. But the main point of the project is to finish the phrase Raise Hands all Those...

Wherever the project is shown we will be giving out self-addressed stamped postcards so that hopefully the project will gain participants as well as momentum as it travels.

How to get Involved:

The way our gallery submissions policy works is that anyone may send a postcard to:
Bucky Fleur
PO Box 60206
Fraser RPO
Vancouver , BC V5W 4B5

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