The Fiction Project: Coming Soon
by Michael Arnzen ~ November 18th, 2009.
Join Me for The Fiction Project
I’ve decided to challenge myself with an art & fiction experiment that is being hosted by The Art House Co-op called “The Fiction Project.”
How it works is like this: I registered on their site and will soon receive a Moleskine sketchbook and a random surprise “theme” that they will send me in the mail. I next will create a story along with images somehow based on that theme (and it can be as loosely based as I want it to be). I will share scans of my work in progress online. The resulting physical book will be sent back to Art House by their mid-April deadline, for permanent display in the co-op’s future location, The Brooklyn Art Gallery.
The Fiction Project is kind of like “nanowrimo“…only more artsy, less lengthy, and with lots and lots of breathing room.
I literally intend to choke every cubic inch out of that breathing room.
Who knows what will come out of this? Something dark and dreadful and weird, for certain. Sounds fun. I look forward to sharing as it develops.
And I invite you to do this along with me! Deadline to sign up is Feb 15, 2010. Once you’re registered (cost = $18), you can add me as a friend on their site so I can follow your progress. I will post every page I create as I finish it on my site profile and someplace here on gorelets.com.
[ To see how great Art House Co-op projects can get, check out their gallery of art from a similar event they ran last year (which I started, but then quit too soon): The Sketchbook Project 3. The exhibition was covered by CNN in the video below]
December 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before.
Sounds like a wonderful challenge.
You always find the coolest stuff!
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:35 pm