John Hitchcock, Assistant Professor of Art
University of Wisconsin-Madison
6241 Humanities Building
455 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-0349
Email: jhitchcock@education.wisc.edu

Keith Christensen, Associate Professor
Art Department, St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
320/308-4807
E-mail: kc@stcloudstate.edu
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/kchristensen/

Exchange Portfolio: "Cultural Transport / Moving Targets Project"
A print exhibition of invited international artists presented in Berlin, on a train between Berlin and Poznan and in Poznan.

PORTFOLIO WEB SITE: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/kchristensen/current/targets/overview.html

ADDRESS FOR MAILING PRINTS:
Keith Christensen
2437 Grand Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55405 USA

The project involves presenting the print medium in a specific and meaningful way. This  proposal is for a print exhibition about social concerns moving via public transportation  across borders. The ideas will be realized at the Impact 4 Conference through an exhibition and web site. This concept ties to the rich tradition that printmaking serves as a vehicle for expression of discontent and critique. The works of Goya’s Disasters of War series to  the works of José Posada and recently to Leon Golub spoke to their times through these  means. The distinctiveness of the project is that the context becomes the literal vehicle.  The train will cross the German-Polish border and show the images as commentary and visions. Moving Targets is the project title and term (to be translated to German and Polish) to signify the difficulty in stopping something (shooting down–in military terms).  They are presented under the title “Moving Targets” to demonstrate the potential of artistic prints as agents promoting reflection and change.

There is a call for submissions of multiples for this event and project. Artists are asked to submit print work about transformative strategies and critiques of the current social conditions. The theme is kept relatively open but artists are encouraged to consider first of all what they believe are ideas about social transformation and then what is important for this audience to see. Paulo Friere wrote that people have to first identify their oppressors and then act accordingly in order to achieve liberation. We extend this by calling for international artists to react to the obstacles of our shared international societies and make prints accordingly. We encourage artists to express alternative and transgressive views within the possibilities of this framework. The project invites artists to submit visual work that speaks in some way to claiming a humane future. We recognize that this may mean identifying the obstacles and oppression or it may mean envisioning a more sustainable culture. 

On Wednesday Sept. 7 (during the train ride to Poznan) and Saturday Sept. 10 (during the train ride to Berlin), we will distribute a series of portfolios specifically collated for viewing during the train ride. Some of the prints may be hung on the train car walls. Viewers can pass the exchange portfolio from person to person. This will act as a connection between, land, culture, and lead to a border-crossing hand held exhibition.

SPECIFICATIONS

Size: 8 x 10

Titled, signed and dated

3 prints (multiples) The prints will be collated into several groups and placed into archival plastic sleeve portfolios for viewing on the train or hung on the walls of the train car. All prints will be archival, using non-staining, non-rubbing inks and materials. No individual print will be thicker than 1/16".

• One will be exhibited on the train and exhibited at a local site in Poland and then  donated to the Impact 4 Conference.

• One will be exhibited on the train and exhibited at a local site in Germany and then donated to the Impact 4 Conference.

• One will serve as documentation of project.

Submit with a one (or two) sentence description or explanation of the piece. 

Give full name and contact information.

We encourage artists to make a fourth copy for their portfolio.

Due: June 1, 2005

INVITED ARTISTS INCLUDE:

ARGENTINA

Alicia Candiani ALICAN@ABACONET.COM.AR

CZECH REPUBLIC

Jan Vicar, jan.vicar@seznam.cz

SWEDEN

Eskilsson Tina/ tina@ljudligan.se

GERMANY Schoenke Michael/ mischoenke@web.de

Martin Noll, nollmartin@freenet.de

Eva Pietzcker eva@pietzcker.de

POLAND

Krzysztof Molenda, k-molenda@wp.pl

Mirek Pawlowski, m-pawlowski@tlen.pl

Monika Meler, mmeler@purdue.edu

Arthur Skowronski arturskowronski@interia.pl

MALAYSIA

Rahman Mohamed, manhaji2@yahoo.com

NETHERLANDS

Wim Habraken kurtface@planet.nl

NEW ZEALAND

Noelle Jakeman Noelle.Jakeman@twoa.ac.nz

Vanessa Wairata Edwards cherrynessa@hotmail.com

Mike Samuels msam@aotearoa.gen.nz

NORTHERN IRELAND

Raymond Henshaw, rhenshaw@eircom.net

David DuBose, mail@daviddubose.com

Jill McKeown, jillmckeown@ntlworld.com

Eddie Rafferty, raffertye@hotmail.com

Lucy Turner, lucyturner13@hotmail.com

SOUTH AFRICA

Beverly Samler and Lisa Van Wyk, kerrylyn@bccollege.co.za

Roderick Sauls, rsauls@hiddingh.uct.ac.za

Mickey Mtiya and Jeff Rankin, jrankin@bortech.ac.za

Dominic Thorburn, D.Thorburn@ru.ac.za

UNITED KINGDOM

David Ferry D.Ferry@soton.ac.uk

Sarah Bodman, Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk

Stephen Mumberson S.Mumberson@mdx.ac.uk

Carl Rowe carl.rowe@ntlworld.com

Sue Gollifer s.c.gollifer@bton.ac.uk

SPAIN

Enrique H. Martínez Leal henryloyal@hotmail.com

UNITED STATES

Justin Diggle, justindiggle@hotmail.com

Tom Christison, t_christison@hotmail.com

Hui-Chu Ying, ying@uakron.edu

Mark Franchino, mfranchino@plainsart.org

Ruthann Godollei, godollei@Macalester.edu

Melanie Yazzie, myazzie@email.arizona.edu

Cerese Vaden, cvaden@email.arizona.edu

Katarzyna Cepek, kcepek@yahoo.com

Emily Wilson, emilwilson@yahoo.com

Glory Tacheenie Campoy, tacheeniecampo@aol.com

Beauvais Lyons, blyons@utk.edu

Dennis Olsen, dolsen@santareparata.org

Kathryn J. Reeves, kreeves@purdue.edu

Charles Beneke, beneke@uakron.edu

Jenny Schmid, jenny@jenski.com

Endi Poskovic, eposkovic@yahoo.com

Dusty Herbig, dprinters@yahoo.com

Lenore Thomas, lenorethomas@hotmail.com

Sabrina Ogle, ssogle@wisc.edu

Michael Connors, mconnors@facstaff.wisc.edu

Jack Damer, jdamer@education.wisc.edu

Frances Myers, fjmyers@facstaff.wisc.edu

Beth Grabowski, segrabow@email.unc.edu

April Katz, akatz@iastate.edu

Stefanie Dykes, sjdykes@aol.com

amanda yopp, awyopp@hotmail.com

Suleiman Aboutaam, saboutaam@msn.com

Cynthia Kukla, cynthiakukla@yahoo.com

Mike Alewitz, ALEWITZM@mail.ccsu.edu

Virginia Bradley, vbradley@UDel.Edu

Burstyn Dina, Dinabur@aol.com

Dan Dennehey, danden@mac.com

Bill Gorcica, wgorcica@stcloudstate.edu

Peter Gourfain,

Gary Green, gary.green@maine.edu

Dave Hornor, hornorjones@earthlink.net

Shana Kaplow, srkaplow@STCLOUDSTATE.EDU

Emmy Lingsheit, onthinmice@hotmail.com

Barbara Madsen, bmadsen@rci.rutgers.edu

Andrew Neher, andrewneher@greatmiddlewest.com

James Ockley, jimo@artsmia.org

Jeanne Platt, basementbanter@HOTMAIL.COM

Valerie Snobeck, valeriesnobeck@greatmiddlewest.com

Mike Stangler, mstangler@email.com

Joseph Truax

URRW Union of Radical Workers and Writers-Nowak, Mark, Evans, Jason, Sun Young Shin, INFO@URWW.ORG

Josh Wittenberg, trythisonforsighs@hotmail.com

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Heather Muise, heather.muise@zu.ac.ae

Matthew Egan, megan@ausharjah.edu

JOHN HITCHCOCK was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. He is an Artist and Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his MFA at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and received his BFA from Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including: the American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of Arts and a Jerome Foundation grant, Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current works are a blend of printmaking, digital imaging, video, and installation that depict personal, social, and political views. Exhibitions of his art works include group shows at the Nathan Homestead Community Arts Centre (Manurewa, New Zealand), Toimairangi School of Maori Visual Culture Te Wananga o Aotearoa, (Hastings Hawkes Bay, New Zealand), International Darmstadt Waldkunstpfad /Forest-Art-Path(Darmstadt, Germany), TransitARTen - Vogelfrei 5, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten (Darmstadt, Germany), South African Museum (Cape Town, South Africa), Museu de Arte de Brasilia (Brasilia, Brazil), Seacourt Collaborative Press (Bangor, Ireland), IV International Biennial of Photography (Reus Catalonia, Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Chile), Institute of American Indian Art Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico), New York University Tisch School of Arts (New York), Exit Art (New York), The Print Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Anton Gallery (Washington, DC). Recent Solo shows include: AICH Gallery (New York City), North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, North Dakota), Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan), Macalester College (St Paul, Minnesota), The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona),University of North Texas (Denton, Texas), Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), Wisconsin Academy Gallery (Madison, Wisconsin), University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma), University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota), and Living Arts of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

KEITH CHRISTENSEN serves on the faculty of the Art Department of St. Cloud State University where he teaches design, public art and digital applications. His creative work has taken the form of public art commissions, painting and prints. He utilizes photography, game design and maps in his process and he is interested in issue-oriented subjects.  His background involved participation in artist collectives in NYC; PADD, Artmakers and Repo History. He designed The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz written by Paul Buhle and published by Monthly Review Press in NYC. He received his MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and he previously served on the faculty of the MCAD Institute for Public Art and Design. Recent works include the Freedom Game, commissioned for the Neuberger Museum¹s Public Art Biennial at SUNY Purchase, NY. Another commission was for Local Connections, a public art installation for the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit Program at the Government Plaza station in Minneapolis. His web site (web.stcloudstate.edu/kchristensen/) documents his various projects: