Thank You Note: My Words Are My Shelter Project

Dear Readers,

I just got this note from Susan Neth, the Executive Director of Mental Health Services, Inc., the organization that oversees the Norma Herr Women's Center, the shelter where my mother spent her last few three of her life. Her note is in response to the outpouring of generosity from all of you during my My Words Are My Shelter campaign. Each woman received not only a journal, pen and pencil with which to write but also, the shelter received close to $500 in donations. Thank you all for your support and we will do this again next year at Christmas time! Please read below:

Dear Mira,

Please express my deep gratitude to your readers of Mira’s List. Their generous donations supported your gift of journals to over 100 homeless women in our shelter. These journals have been used to capture feelings, create poetry and for documenting to-do lists. Writing is safe. It is cathartic. And it can also break down barriers that otherwise might have remained intact. Mira, please pass on my ‘thank you’ to those who reached out to help others.

Susan

iocose: sunflower seeds on“sunflower seeds”

today in the early morning, the four members of artist group iocose stopped at a grocery store at the bankside district in london, uk. they bought an innocuous bag of sunflower seeds at the price of 1 british pound. a short walk from the grocery was the 'sunflower seeds' exhibition by ai weiwei. the installation, exhibited at the turbine hall at tate modern as part of the unilever series, displayed millions of hand-crafted porcelains in the shape of sunflower seeds. the four iocoses took hold of their catapults and started launching the cheaper and real sunflower seeds in the exhibition area. then changed the signs at the turbine hall and renamed the artwork 'sunflower seeds on sunflowers seeds'.
it took a while before the security noticed iocose's unruly behaviour. when asked to leave their own exhibition, the four iocoses expressed disappointment and were joined by a group of tourists who were honestly appreciating the unexpected opening. despite this, iocose would like to complain for the lack of promptness by the security. now that iocose's work is on exhibition the group would like to demand major awareness on its preservation.
(excerpt from the press release)

the sunflower seeds on "suflower seeds" will stay on display until may 2nd 2011. enjoy & remember ai weiwei's previous statement: 'what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means'.

world according to shrigley

pierre david: human pantone

french artist pierre david made a great adaptation of the pantone color chart for an exhibition in brasil. you can see it as an ode to the variety of skin color of brasil or, more general, to the world population. (via update or die)

showtime: testing ground I time scale @ zabludowicz london

opening tonight @ 6pm @ zabludowicz collection london: weekend of exhibitions and events curated by students on the royal college of art's masters in curating and goldsmith's college's masters of fine art curating.
the preview will include a curatorial discussion regarding selected works from the collection, live performance and music.