Fiona, I think this is the email you require.
Jordan McKenzie wrote:
> Hello to you all
>
> I sent a mail out asking for particiapants in a forthcoming show for
> The Big Draw. I sent an attachement with it that for some reason did
> not attach! So....here is the proposal pasted into this mail. Sorry
> for having to send it twice!
>
> Call for participants:
>
> As part of the Big Draw, a national drawing event happening across the
> country organised by Drawing Power in October, Jordan McKenzie in
> association with C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) is organising an
> event and exhibition. The event is called From One To Another and
> posted below are details of the proposed exhibition:
>
> Untitled: From One To Another examines the notation of travel, using
> the passing through, the journey, as a starting point for intimate
> encounters and exchange. It encompasses drawing, mapping and
> performance to embark on a journey, a journey made by many and
> recalled through intimate encounters.
>
> 1. Each participant will begin a journey to a neighbouring
> county/city. They may take a car, public transport or possibly simply
> walk (which ever seems most appropriate) over to the next county/city.
> During this travel they will write an account of their journey. This
> account may be a simple logging of their movement, the geographical
> spaces they passed through, how many miles they travelled, or it may
> be something more complex; a description of people they met, the
> thoughts and daydreams they had, smells… How they notate their journey
> is up to each individual to decide, but it has to be written down onto
> a piece of paper.
> 2. Their destination will be to meet a stranger, the location,
> identity and contact details of which have already been given to the
> participants by Jordan and C4RD. Upon meeting the stranger, the
> participant will then gently notate the written account of their
> journey onto the back of the stranger, recounting his/her journey
> through touch. It may be a list of words, images, an abstract
> sensation. The stranger will then make a drawing of this journey
> purely by using the sensation of touch on their backs, feeling the
> journey and interpreting it through drawn marks. The drawing may be
> made on paper, composed of mud on the floor, carved onto a piece of
> wood, how they draw the journey is up to each individual to decide.
> The only stipulation is that it leaves a recordable visual trace.
> 3. After completing this, the second participant (stranger) embarks on
> another journey to meet another stranger and notate that journey upon
> their backs. This new participant will then make a drawing from the
> encounter and then embark on a journey to meet another
> participant/stranger.
> 4. This will continue as a chain-letter series of
> journeys-encounters-drawings spreading all over the country. The
> written accounts of the journeys along with the drawings sent either
> hard copy or photographed or filmed and e mailed along with a picture
> of the participant will then be sent to the gallery to be exhibited.
> All the work will also be posted onto a web site and exhibited as part
> of the Big Draw event at C4RD.
>
> Regards and appologies!
>
> Jordan McKenzie
>
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