today we started some magnets on their way to london – via a vintage citroen (you know, the french cars that lift up when you start them? btw – this is not a lemon).
takin’ a break from our mistresses of mafioso assignment, we spent most of our day with steckerlfisch (you know, those fish on sticks?)
today the signtologist magnet, depicting arnold schwarzenegger, took a dive into the traun (a river that flows through gmunden). rescue operations are being explored. will keep you posted.
this is the realm of aluminum, copper and wood. very little steel. today we were in hallstatt; a tiny village perched on a lake. here salt is mined and the sun shines but 3 hours a day – frickin’ cold! even mid-day most of the metal had a layer of frost preventing magnet’s sticking- the biggest ice crystals i have ever seen. but we persevered and placed 2 small magnets.
pics soon . . .
a couple moments of panic when the luggage with most of the magnets almost missed getting tagged at DIA, i was told my flight didn’t exist and some rental car madness in munich. but we have arrived and are welcomed by the town of Almunster. Magnet Mafia posters are all over town; we met with our ‘cultural referee’ today, and will install magnets for a 2 day display in the town offices next week. we will also be interviewed for an article in a regional newspaper. there is a brief snippet in the local monthly newsletter already.
more news anon
spondere : a collaborative collective heidi zednik & alicia bailey
spondere is the result of a series of events. It’s a collaborative collective born of conversations, friendship, experimentation and art. to explain spondere is to look at the whole -individual art projects, collaborations, movement and time. alicia and i founded spondere to formalize a common voice and our trust in collaboration.
dorland mountain arts colony (CA), 1995
A tree fell on my van and I met Alicia.
I went to the art colony as a writer and ended up returning to painting.
The storm was the beginning of many changes in my life.
One of them was the friendship with Alicia
jump (1997) and skinning blue (1998)
Alicia’s artist books, Jump and Skinning Blue are not collaborations, but they are a significant part of the history of Spondere. In Skinning Blue (1997), Alicia incorporated sections of my short story by the same name. The following year, she used selections of my other texts in Jump
notes from the underground, 2001
It was the found objects that started the underground conversations. For me, it was the handwritten dictionary and the old photographs, the odd lawnmower parts and old glass… continued
conversations from the underground, 2004
After Denver we knew there would be a continuation of the first collaboration, just as we knew the continuation would be more conceptual. Again, because of the constraints of distance, we began Conversations by shipping packages back and forth…
RE, 2004
In our third installation, we moved away from the concrete exploration of objects. In RE we experimented with the layering of reflective and transparent planer surfaces. RE was installed as one work at Edge Gallery…
Alphabet of desire, 2004 In 2004
I received a Regional Artist Project Grant to partially fund the printing of a limited edition of artist books titled alphabet of desire. The original print/poem project by the same title was created in early 2004. The collaborative aspect of this project is the designing and binding of the artist books. I will print the pages in Asheville, under the technical specifications of Alicia’s book design. We will then meet in one location to bind the books.
Magnet Mafia is Harrison Nealey and Matt Feeney (Denver, CO). They, along with an ever growing group of Denver street artists, paint art on magnets and put them up in the streets and galleries of Denver and around the world.
Spondere is Alicia Bailey (Denver, CO), Donna Price & Heidi Zednik (Asheville, NC). Spondere believes in collaboration between artists in any field, of any age, in any location.
This art exchange is the type of project that we have envisioned since the beginning of the MagnetMafia. We are so thankful to have the chance to finally do it! The driving force behind making this project a reality is the women of an art collective called Spondere. We have been working closely with Alicia Bailey, of Spondere, getting all the details in order. We are going to decorate 50+ 1ftx1ft magnets with original artwork of all types that will fly to Altmünster, Austria with Alicia and her crew. (Spondere will host) Austrian artists at a party where they will make their own magnets that will come back to us!! We can’t wait to see what comes back with them when they return.
