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Calling for confessions! Subway project seeks brave collaborators with a confession for public consumption
Pattison Onestop, Art for Commuters (A4C) and Labspace Studio introduce Confessions Underground, a video based art installation, part social experiment and part public intervention, developed by John Loerchner & Laura Mendes, Co-Directors of Labspace Studio. Confessions Underground will play on the network of Pattison Onestop’s TTC subway platform screens throughout Toronto from July 2 to July 15, 2012.
Liberating, Exhilarating, Cathartic, Terrifying - Confessions Underground provides participants the rare opportunity to record a 10-15 second private on-camera confession via confessionsunderground.com. Capturing the attention of more than one million daily commuters, the subtitled Confessions will appear as part of a rotating 30-second spot every 10 minutes throughout the day on the TTC platform screens in over 60 stations across Toronto. (Participant names and contact information will not be disclosed at any time.)
Labspace Studio is set to record and gather Confessions until July 1, 2012. For details or to record a Confession visit www.confessionunderground.com.
"What makes Confessions Underground so intriguing is that we all harbour secrets, some of us for years. This is the chance to liberate those secrets.” says Laura Mendes, Co-Director, Labspace Studio. “Though confessors' names won't be broadcast, they do take on the potential risk of being recognized. It all comes down to chance; that's the real exciting part... Who will spot your confession?"
"Confessions Underground attempts to examine the “collective” act of confessing. We're asking participants from Toronto and abroad to record a 10-15 second confession. Confessions can be shocking, humorous, mundane, as long as they're honest and sincere.” says John Loerchner, Co-Director, Labspace Studio.
“I love the idea of commuters being privy to these confessions,” said Sharon Switzer, Pattison Onestop Arts Programmer and Curator. “We spend so much time imaging what others are thinking, and now with Confessions Underground, we will all get to find out.”
To request an
Underground Confession session, or for more information, contact: Laura
Mendes, Labspace Studio Director/Curator - 416-836-1516 or
info@labspacestudio.com
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2012-05-26 15:46:11
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