Poem - 'Things I want to happen to you'
I want the rope that holds a heavy piano
to break and
fall on your head
while you walk on Lexington.
I want the chicken teriyaki
you like to eat in your neighborhood's Chinese place
to be a rat the owner found dead
3 weeks ago behind the counter.
I want you to be abducted by aliens
and after they are done with their experiments
to drop you off somewhere in the Texas' desert
where you will suffer from dehydration
before you become a happy meal for the vultures.
I want you to trip and fall on the subway rails
and it will be 3:33 in the morning and
nobody will have seen you, nobody besides a bum
that simply won't bother.
I want you to get run over by a taxi
driving 60 mph
after he honks at you
but you won't hear it
since you will have your iPod
plugged in your ears
listening to our song.
By Stavros Lambrakis
Poet - Stavros Lambrakis
Artists working
Book
Event date: 9th - 10th of April 2011
Time: 12pm - 12pm
Malin Olsson
Joe Bullock
Greg Hayward
Ksenya Glushnyova
Andri Anaxagorou
At its heart, Project 24 was a challenge to design, compose and produce a book within twenty four hours, on location in a design studio in London. But what made Project 24 different, was that each page of the book would feature an individual work of art that would be conceived, visualised and created by twenty four separate artists using a variety of mediums, within the same time-frame.
Furthermore, the theme for each work of art would be inspired by a single, curiously indeterminate line of text from a poem, randomly selected and given to each artist when they arrive on the day. Each of the twenty four linguistically illustrative lines that form the poem Things I Want To Happen To You, courtesy of Cypriot poet Stavros Lambrakis, offers an inviting premise for each artist to interpret and work from.
The team behind Project 24 faced their own challenge, to document the event, every step of the way. From conducting interviews with the artists, to photographing their developing masterpieces, the studio became a hive of activity. In addition, broadcasting live to every corner of the globe, from Belgium to Brazil, web-cams kept track, allowing viewers to witness the artistry in progress, all the way through the night.
As the clock struck noon on the following day, a full twenty four hours since the start, the challenge was over. All twenty four works of art were complete, the artists had succeeded!
Project 24 set out to find out what could be achieved in twenty four hours and on the blog you can see all finished artworks!