Working Remotely: The Exhibition
As we Zoom into this new normal, a83 hits pause ( || ) to consider what it means to work remotely. Whether locked out of schools or workplaces, the coronavirus pandemic has produced all manner of dislocations. The home has become a workplace, school, studio, gym, bar, … all taking place within the four corners of your computer screen. “Working Remotely” is an opportunity for artists and designers to share their work off-screen. a83 presses print (Ctrl+P / ⌘P) to materially document this moment and reflect on its effects in the areas of architecture and design through the production of a living archive.
Contributors will make digital submissions to a83 where they will be reproduced in-house as risograph prints and installed in the gallery, which has been divided into a 6-foot by 6-foot grid to maintain safe social distances between the work and visitors. The show responds to emerging forms of web-based gallery viewership by providing a physical counterpart: anyone who prefers to attend remotely can subscribe to receive the show piece by piece, delivered to their mailbox. This method of image reproduction translates the virtual into the material allowing the same work on paper that is hanging on the gallery wall to also hang in your living room. A subscription includes a newsletter, which features the latest submissions, as well as conversations with a83 curators and collaborators as part of our ongoing series of epistolary interviews “Keep in Touch.” Online tours and programs will be featured on our social media accounts and website. Whether you are keeping up with business as usual, or dreaming up utopian projects that chart an ambitious course toward a new, new normal, a83 wants to know how you are Working Remotely.
Call for Work: CLOSED
We seek submissions from individuals, offices, organizations, and institutions that reflect work completed in 2020. We’re open to all sorts of materials, whether drawings, photographs, screenshots, e-mails, text messages, or any other documents of your life and work this year. Successful submissions will be printed and installed in a83’s storefront gallery space and included in our catalogue, as well as broadcast on our website, social media accounts, and mailings. To submit your work, sign up to become a contributor and follow the submission instructions outlined. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
