MISSION
323 Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and constantly accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with 323 Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience.
WHO RUNS THIS THING?
Tucker Neel is the Founder and Director of 323 Projects.
Tucker Neel is an artist, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. You can view his art at tuckerneel.com
323 Projects is supported by grass-roots fundraising efforts, teamwork and collaborations with dedicated artists and art lovers. If you would like to support 323 Projects in any way please email 323projects@gmail.com
HISTORY
John Giorno and his Dial-A-Poem telephones. Image courtesy of the New York Times
Forty years ago the poet and performance artist John Giorno established Dial-A-Poem, a landmark experiment enabling individuals from all over the world to call in to multiple telephone lines and listen to a changing lineup of poems, sounds, and music by some of the leading artists of the day like William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg, as well as a sundry of political speeches, Buddhist chants, and all manner of aural stimulation. Dial-A-Poem lasted until 1971, but its influence was widespread and immediate, as evidenced by the success of its contributors, and the emergence later of a robust telecommunications arts genre. 323 Projects seeks to explore how a contemporary audience, equipped with both landlines and cell phones, will access Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem exhibition format as a project space re-engineered using 21st Century technology.
323 Projects builds on Giorno’s prescient exhibition format, but with slight alterations. Instead of allotting three minutes to each artist, with work randomly selected by a set of answering machines, 323 Projects allows artists to have complete control of the gallery’s exhibition platform – a phone number connected to a voicemail service- for the duration of their show. Using sound pieces that can run from a second to up to half an hour, artists use this exhibition format to experiment with the formal, durational, and temporal possibilities.
323 Projects is supported by grass-roots fundraising efforts, teamwork and collaborations with dedicated artists and art lovers.
PROSELYTIZE
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