Ursula Kelly & Maeve McElligott
Ireland
The Post-it Project is based around communication, collaboration and public space. It is a collaborative practice between the artists involved, the public who participate, and the audience who view the project. The project’s main function was to interrupt the daily experience of people in the public environment.
The project for ev+a 2006 has been based on ‘generosity’, and we have been working in Limerick’s Milk Market. The weekly market is a random meeting point for a large cross section of the community in Limerick – old people, local kids, housewives, students, traders, etc. We set up a stall asking people to participate in the project by writing on yellow post-its ‘what generosity means to them’. The comments we have collected range from the mundane to the political to the controversial. The post-its are then photographed in locations significant to the opinions which they contain. No guidelines or censorship exist, so it is a democratic space for expression by all.
(Text: give(a)way catalogue, 2006)
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