METONYMY signup 2011
Metonymy, a home grown success story, is now calling for participants for its 2011 season. Now in its fourth year, Metonymy started because a group of literary and visual artists in Auckland wanted to find ways of meeting and collaborating. The idea grew to include the idea of introducing artists to each other (in a ‘creative blind date’), and seeding a community.
“We find artists from different disciplines spark off each other, moving the work into new and unexpected territory,” says Metonymy organiser Christian Jensen.
Key dates for this year:
July 1st – Deadline for sign-ups
July 4th – Pairings notified
July 4th- Sep 3rd – Collaboration period
Sep 1st-3rd – Submit work for exhbition
Sep 8 – Oct 9 – Exhibition and events
See more of the Metonymy and the art of blind dating here in this article by Renee Liang
Willingness to collaborate
We now invite you to sign up for this years Metonymy (and check out our website) at
http://www.metonymy.weebly.com/
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Metonymy
Metonymy is an annual event aimed at encouraging collaborations between artists and writers/poets. Each artist will be paired with a poet or writer, and over the period of one month you will work together to create a collaborative multi-disciplinary work, the best of which will feature in an exhibition as an official fringe event of the Auckland Reader's and Writer's festival. There will also be a live performance event, various networking opportunities and a publication.
