Idea: The Womb project

 
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  • Created on: 01 Aug 2008
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The Womb is wholly autonomous and nomad structure of monumental proportions, it's the collaborative creation of hundreds of established and up and coming artists hwill traverse continents over a four year period exploring the birth of our consciousness and the rise of our differentiations: culture, race, religion, politics and socio-economics. By placing the artistic expressions of our differences in the very core of the womb, the womb invites the viewer to look at our differences with the freshness of the foetus eyes. For the initiated viewer, ‘I’ and ‘You’ disappear, leaving space to the connected and complex being that embraces the most contradicting views of the world

The Creative stage of the Womb has started here in Liverpool, the European Capital of vulture n July with 40 artists from 13 countries

This year, the Womb theme is CULTURE and the relationship between the Arab world and the West. 2009 will see RACE explored in Grahamstown, South Africa, host if the National Arts Festival; RELIGION is the theme of 20120, hosted by the European Capital of Culture, Istanbul 2010; and in Guadalajara, Mexico, host of the 2011 Pan-American Games, artists will e exploring the issues surrounding the land and ECONOMICS divisions. Finally the womb will return to these shores for the London 2012 Olympics, where the great social divider CLASS will be examined.

It is an organic being that is evolving in the Womb, following the developmental stages of the foetus, a being growing in space and time, evolving from the fourth dimension of ideas.

The final creation will be a monumental installation made of Aluminium and Plexiglas that will span 1000m sq of artworks.

The specifications are simple: 1m sq of Plexiglas used to create an artwork on the theme of the year, the language- DNA codes A,C,G,T; the medium, visual art.

The artists have been asked to use the building blocks of life; DNA. The DNA code GATC is used to create a personal message. We all share this DNA code; although we are are all different, we all share the basic building blocks of humanity; this universal language, this translingual form. Art is also translingual and transcultural.

What's needed to make it a reality

The Womb project has started and we invite visual artists to share its vision and become members of PAX Collaborative Circle - PAX stands for Planet art eXchange, a new not -for-profit organisation that runs the womb project.

For more info please visit www.pax08.com

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  • Avatar Victoria Elliott 12:00, 30 September 2008 Hi Ludo,

    This project sounds really interesting. Is there a way that Junction49 members aged 16-25 can get involved? Maybe you could post some actions which tell people how they can undertake their own womb projects or be part of the creative stage in Liverpool?

    Thanks!
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