Project Brief: My Memory is Yours

Concept: My memories to be outsourced to individuals around the world. The individuals will be paid to draw my memory. Collaborators for this project will be from ‘third world’ countries that have major outsourcing economies such as China and India. Individuals will be chosen from an ad placed around the globe on Craigslist.

Description: 10 of my personal memories of will be textually sent along with paper, and a return envelope to the individuals included in this work. The end product of this project will be dictated by the individual aesthetics of the artists employed for this task. Parameters include that it must be a hand created drawing. Additionally, I will also render drawings based on these same memories. 

The works of art, their interpretations and my interpretations will be exhibited together along with the original text and the communication ephemera. By examining the representation of a personal memory through the artists iterations and the technological iterations of our global economy, the project seeks to address the nature of memory, artistic authority and globalization.