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HEWLETT PACKARD has arranged to place a printer in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Artists are invited to submit works by emailing them to the printer. The printer prints them and they are hung in the ACCA. How wonderfully democratic! Not. In the fine print of the contract the artist agrees to by sending their work, they basically give HP the exclusive right to exploit their work forever, including transferring that right to others. This is one of the most disgusting forms of naked exploitation of artists I have seen for some time. If you are an artist. If you pay to make your own work. If you struggle to get your work shown. If you are, know, or have ever been such an artist then please join us in protesting this blatant theft of artists rights through the exploitation of a public gallery space. Please make a protest entry into the ACCP+HP exhibition by downloading the protest poster above, pasting in on to a work of your own and emailing it to the printer at ACCP. If you don’t have your own artwork, you can always make one, or failing that, send in just the poster. Instructions are below.
download the protest poster from here:
past it onto an A4 format (no bigger than 5mb) version of your own work and email it to: myworkisintheaustraliancentreforcontemporaryart@hpeprinter.com
protest lodged. Now spread the word.
What "art" and the "artworld" looks like from the perspective of "artists" from Sydney's Inner West's "art scene".
-by "Alex Wisser" and "Georgie Pollard"
