{"id":94,"date":"2004-01-15T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/join-nuca\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T00:07:07","slug":"join-nuca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/join-nuca\/","title":{"rendered":"Join NUCA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Network of Un-Collectable Artists<\/a><\/span><\/em> (NUCA) is a brand new nation-wide affiliation. NUCA connects those who gravitate towards <\/span>ephemeral projects, participatory experiences, illegal art actions, and activities that oddify everyday life. Some members make unwieldy installation projects, while others alter billboards, project images in abandoned spaces at night, or exchange ideas rather than objects. Some simply make dead ugly paintings that would never sell.<\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n

Because such artworks are often fiendishly tricky to document, they seldom grace the columns of "recognised" publications. NUCA is building a publicity machine of its own, so artists may exchange essential info about their activities, collaborate on new projects, and connect with Un-Collectable others.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

For Next Wave 2004, NUCA will launch "Australia's 50 Most Un-Collectable Artists", a set of BubbleGum cards documenting the activities of these elusive individuals. The Un-Collectable BubbleGum Cards will be distributed by itinerant vendors at the various festival venues, and naturally, it will be damn hard to "collect them all".<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

NUCA would like to invite you to join its ranks. Please send an email introducing yourself and your interests, to nuca@bigfoot.com<\/a> to get the ball rolling. We will publish members' pictures and information on our website, which will also house a discussion board.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

A little more about Australia's 50 Most Un-Collectable Artists<\/em>:<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

NUCA would like the project to explore "collectability\/collectivity\/collection etc" in its many senses. <\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Just because the project is about being "un-collectable" does not mean that selling a piece of art disqualifies you. Problems with "collection" are to be explored<\/em>. [NUCA member Mickie Quick, for instance, has complained that his small civil disobedience kits (Refugee Island) are collected and put on the mantlepiece by "politically minded" but not "politically active" friends and colleagues, which for him kills the piece entirely.]<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The project should bring out those issues.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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Australia's 50 Most Un-Collectable Artists<\/em> is intended to be humourous, and by necessity it can't become self-important. That is what it should work away from: the dubious practice of cross-referencing by "credible" sources who "say" that an artist is collectible and are therefore slavishly followed by the market (who knows if this really works anyway, but it makes for some ghastly magazine filler).<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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Australia's 50 Most Un-Collectable Artists<\/a> <\/em>is part of the Next Wave Festival<\/a>, whose theme for 2004 is UnPopular Culture.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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