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Pimp My Kart is NOT for the Faint of Heart

CALL FOR PIMPS 2007

For PMK 07 I would like to stress that this is a projekt more resolutely located on the fringes of the norm than any other art projekt during Art Basel Miami Beach. For the third installment of this endeavor, I am looking for a SMALL but extremely committed group of artists who understand that there is a huge rift between contemporary artistic motivations. Large art fairs proclaim an air of authoritative reign over the public perception of the potentiality of art and its monetary increase. For as long as there has been visual communication there has been the questions: is art for communication? for the "people"? for education of the illiterate? is it to serve as the philistine act of the rich to lend it for the viewership of the less endowed? or is art to serve as trophies for the wealthy elite who can physically possess it?

Pimp My Kart has always raised questions of wealth and class in relation to contemporary art, asking the selective group of world level art aesthetes to keep an eye on concepts beyond the pristine autonomous white walls of galleries and convention centers.

This year, PMK will hold true to the century old call to artists to illustrate concepts to those unable to learn from the traditional methods of cultural enlightenment. Braininess painters were bequeathed the responsibility of using visual means to communicate the stories of the Bible to the illiterate masses, so shall we this year bear the responsibility to visually illustrate issues seemingly illegible to more elaborately funded art connoisseurs: the rampant poverty in Miami, the use of poor neighborhoods by large art fairs who take the space because of cheap rent but ignore the lives of the people surrounding the exteriors, the reality and cruelty of a life of sacrifice many artists must endure in order for just one hope of a glimpse of the global magnifying lens of Basel, the strife of production rarely revealed in the final piece, the displacement of artists due to developers and raised rent in affordable studio locations.

The poor are rarely blind to the social demands of the wealthy. And yet do the wealthy see the needs of their fellow humans so clearly? Why then is the festival of ART, the purest form of visual communication, not harnessed for its potential to reveal at least some of these issues to those less inclined to the experience.

PMK 07 aims to help us all see what only art may let us visualize.

To be a PIMP this year, this is what you will need

As in 2006, these is an artist contract that must be signed as your official Intent to Participate.

You will be welcome to participate in all press materials, the earlier pics and statements are received, the more they will be included.

All artists, individual or in teams, are required to acquire an abandoned shopping kart and use it to create their work of art. Preferably the piece will retain its portability, as artists will be required to move their karts.

All artists are responsible for the transportation of their own karts, help will be arranged as needed.

The "show" consists of a 48 hour period during Basel. All participating artists must be willing to give 48 consecutive hours to the projekt. Details will be disclosed to official Pimp prospective artists only.

For more information, all questions welcome: holla

To see last year's guidelines to get a feel for things: click here

The following are some old emails from last year. Some MAJOR confusion incurred last year between the artists, because not everyone was reading all the info. So if you don't like actually reading about the show you are participate in, this is NOT the show for you.

Official PMK email #4

12-2-07

Dearest PIMPS

OMG!!! It's almost here! The moment we've been working so hard for, will be here in just a few days... And since we are so close to showtime, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU READ ALL OF THIS EMAIL!! In particular, I am going to need everyone to check in with me about working some of the events and helping out in general...

(AHOL please check in with the live music for Tues)
(BullFrog: Let's talk about grub)

DOES ANYONE HAVE A RAFT OR CANOE WE COULD BORROW THURSDAY

The SCHEDULE:
PIMP MY KART
Official Event Guide
Opening: December 5th
at FAKTURA GALLERY
7 - Midnight
$5 Donations at the Door
FREE Refreshments and Food
Live music by Jailai
DJ Matt Owen Reininger
Performances, Installations and Video
Please bring clothing and non perishable Donations too!
This is the ONLY night ALL karts will be TOGETHER!
BE THERE
More Dope Art Vouchers will be handed out as well
So catch Jacqi Brown around Miami all week!

Wynwood Wednesday
Kart Tours around Wynwood all day
Silent Auction viewing opens at The Octopus Building
168 NW 36th St
4 - 7 pm
Concert at BullFrog Eatz
Doors at 10pm
Featuring ArtOfficial
Also BagOfTreez Collective

Basel Opens: Thursday
Silent Auction Final Viewing
at The Octopus Building: Wynwood Breakfast
168 NW 36th St
9 - Noon
Karts Tour South Beach in the afternoon
Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston's Kart
Will be a live performance piece in the WATER
at 2pm
Floating in the water around 5th Street
VIPimp Part at The Mark
Doors at 10pm, no cover, DJ Contra
AND
Pimp Part at SoHo Lounge
Four rooms of PIMP music
Hosted by Church Productions
PROCEEDS Donated to Pimp Charity

South Beach Friday
Karts Tour South Beach in full Pimp style
Performances and Public Interaction
All Day and All Night

Design District Saturday
Karts Tour the District durin the day
Many will congregate around 40th St during the walk
Silent Auction Final Viewing
at The Octopus Building: AUCTION CLOSES at Midnight
168 NW 36th St
7 - Midnight
Check out Matt's Art Bastard event
At PS 14

Pimp My Kart Miami 2006
Proceeds go toward the Community Partnership for the Homeless

Feel free to email this schedule, post online, on myspace or generally spread the word.

THIS MEANS I NEED TO COORDINATE PEOPLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:

I need people with trucks to help move stuff on:
Wednesday NOON to 3pm
Thursday 5-7pm
Saturday afternoon
Sunday afternoon

I need people to work events (Can be you, or volunteers you know):
WEEKEND
SATURDAY NIGHT we are silkscreening- SEE SILKSCREENING section below for more info
We need someone with an iron to come by Sunday and help iron the silkscreens to set the ink into the fabric
We will also need help Sunday with installation-
REMEMBER THAT ALL PIMPS ARE INVITED TO BRING HOMELESS RELATED ARTWORK AND INSTALLATIONS
TO FAKTURA TO PUT UP ON THE WALLS FOR THE SHOW... THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN SUNDAY AND MONDAY
ABSOLUTELY NO MORE INSTALLING ON TUESDAY- I can't stand that last minute crap

TUESDAY 6pm to Midnight (can be in shifts)
At Faktura: front door person to collect donations
Someone to man beer and food
An office assistant to help with sales
WEDNESDAY Noon - 3 to help transportation
AND SET UP AT OCTOPUS
4-7 TWO people to stay at Octopus to welcome people and oversee auction bids
9-party time- WE NEED TO REPRESENT AT BULLFROGS
THURSDAY 9am to NOON TWO people for Octopus
12:30 - 3 TWO people to help JJJ and Angela float in the ocean with video cameras (Franky u down?)
PIMP Representatives need to be w a few karts at:
The Mark 10 pm to 1am
Soho Lounge 10 pm to 1 am
(I will be at The MArk from 10-1 and Soho after that)
FRIDAY all day, let me know what your schedule are so we can coordinate pushing karts around the beach
This is the fun unscheduled day, a great day to hit people up on the streets
and weasel our way into worldwide photojournalism (Everyone needs to have flyers one them at ALL times)
SATURDAY
This is the BIG DAY- The Design District Art Walk
We will be doing installations all over town all afternoon-
So Check in with me if you are planning one (I have 89 bike chains for your use)
I need TWO people at the Octopus Building 7-Midnight for closing auction
Let's tour all the karts, make a SCENE and take it on home! Pimps SHINE like the bling you're made of
SUNDAY
SLEEP
MONDAY
I'll send out info as to our results, and I'll need help moving donations to CPftH

THE FLYER ISSUE
We are down to a precious few flyers... IF YOU HAVE FLYERS LEFT OVER SHARE!!
We all need to have flyers and if possible stickers on us at all times, to drop during conversation

STOP THE PRESSES
We are getting up all over the worldwide press machine... Stay tuned, I'll make a page when it's all said and done
of all the press we have. I'll also make press kits for all the artists the week after, so let me know then if you want
a copy for you files.

SILKSCREENS R US
We are in the process of silkscreening bandanas with multiple designs for PMK...
EVERYONE is invited to come help and bring their own clothes to screen
If you have ink, bring it cuz we don't have that much
And I need a volunteer or two to iron all the shirts and bandanas to set the ink!!!

AUCTION!!
I need to know who wants their karts to go up for auction, and how much money you want for your piece.
I need this info ASAP cause I want to make a page for it online!!
The auction goal will be to get the artist what they want, that again for charity, and that again for Faktura (1/3, 1/3, 1/3) Like last year.

OPENING NIGHT VOTING!!
Bring out your peeps for the opening, because I will be asking the audience to vote for their favorite kart...
The winner will get a BIG SURPIRSE, and will be named the OFFICIAL PIMP for 2007
With all the benefits of that press mongering I do so well, lol

I think that's it for now... I'll holla soon though don't worry

--
Jacqi Brown
The Dope Art Dealer
www.TheDopeArtDealer.com

11-08-07

Official PMK email # 2

For a greater understanding of Pimk My Kart, here are some email correspondence about previous shows.

Hope this email finds all my PIMPS in GREAT shape for the insanity that is quickly closing in upon us! The flyer wil probably go to print tomorrow... so if anyone wants to add any last minute logos or info I will need that info tonight. Once I finish it I will send you all the jpegs to start promoting online.

I am also including a copy of the original email I sent, for the few of you that didn't get that one, and the other few of you that never read it, since you've been asking me about stuff that's included on there LOL...

The schedule is being finalized now. I have had to make a couple of changes, and I'm still waiting to hear about the music we've booked.

If ANYONE needs a kart remind me this week or forever hold your peace!!

IMPORTANT!! One of our pimps is making license plates for all the karts, so each individual kart and/or group of artists making a kart together need to let me know what you want your plate to say. you have up to about 8 spaces....

Hmmm.... what else... I think that's it for tonight. I'll send out the jpegs as soon as they're ready. Holla back if ya have any more questions or concerns.

G'nite

Jacqi Brown

AND DON'T FORGET TO STOP BY ON SATURDAY FOR FAKTURA'S AFTER ART WALK PARTY/ CLOSING PARTY FOR M IS FOR MIAMI.
SATURDAY THE 11TH 8-1AM

...............................................................................................................................................................................
THE OLD EMAIL>>> Which doesn't reflect the new list so don't panic

The time has come, the list is almost completed...

Congratulations! You are this year's group of FAKTURA PIMPS!! I am going to use this email address, to keep things more organized... but as always you can reach me at ANY of my emails, kiwi4fun@mac.com, jacquelyn@fakturagallery.com or thedopearedealer@gmail.com. And if you ever need me ASAP, email me at my phone, faktura@tmail.com (that one is kinda a secret, so don't spread it around LOL)

On to business.

The KARTS
Most of you already have your karts. I am delivering to Rosaria and Orlando on Friday afternoon. I am getting a large metal one for Eddy asap. If anyone else needs help finding a kart, let me know so I can go hunting again. NOTE: there are some legalities to kart possession, I HIGHLY recommend removing all corporate identification from your karts as soon as you get them to avoid any potential problems. We only ran into one problem last year, but Angela was able to argue her way out of it by explaining about PMK.

The FLYER
Please check through the list of names and make sure I have it spelled correctly, and it is listed as you want it to appear on the flyer. Whatever I have in parenthesis is just for my personal notes. I will be designing the flyers early next week, and will let you all know when they are ready. If anyone has any designs/ pics/ sketches or ideas they would like considered for the front, let me know asap (I know I know, if I type asap one more time I'm going to bust, but time is of the essence and I want to get that across LOL)

The STICKERS
Some of us have already begun putting stickers up all over town, if you haven't gotten any stickers yet let me know and I'll get some to you.

The PRESS KITS
I invite everyone to submit statements, anecdotes and pics to be included in the press packets. For those who don't know me, it's the insanity of my press kits that often get us a LOT of attention. I need high res pics or scans of sketches this weekend, for some of the magazine people who are already hounding me like you wouldn't believe- a VERY good sign. I will write another email next week filling you in on everything that will be going in it, and it's gonna be nuts!

The EMAIL/PRESS LIST
Unfortunately I am still waiting for some computer genius to recover my beloved email list off of my dead powerbook... so if you would like to add some of you contacts to the PMK mailing list, please send them along.

The PRESS
So far we have: a photo and write up in SPIN. A review in Miami Art Guide. We're on the list in Art in America. And that's just so far!!

The ART in some KARTS
For those of you who are combining you karts with other art projekts for Basel, that is awesome. Artists who will be selling art out of their karts are asked to donate 30% of their sales toward the cause... Jacqi Brown, for example, will be dealing out of her PIMP Dope Art Mobile!

The TOUR and PERFOMATIVITY
The schedule of events is as follows so far, and will be finalized next week:
Tuesday Dec 5th: Opening at Faktura Gallery
Wed. Dec 6: Wynwood Wednesday- karts around Wynwood. Night event at Bullfrog Eatz with live music
Thu. Dec 7: ?? Probably the BEACH
Friday Dec 8: Coral Gables Art Walk
Saturday Dec 9: Design District BLOW OUT!!

Letter to two artists from PMK 06

This is in response to two artists who were upset that a silken reproduction included on a mixed media collage made by Jacqi Brown to promote PMK 06 through her Dope Art.

5-29-07

Hey
I wanted to check in and tell you that I should be able to redo that pic on the site today. Its my first day off since we spoke and I wanted to ensure you I had not forgotten about it. I also wanted to say that I felt very weird about what you said. It was clearly stated in all pmk docs that reproductions of artist work would be used in promotion of the show. Further, the dope arts that you are referring to were the ones that were given away when people brought in the "free dope art" vouchers that were sent out in the media kits. The dope art was made out of collaged silkscreened images of the show, printed on top of the newtimes article about pmk. The pieces were entirely appropriated from images of the show, used entirely for the promotion of the show. No offense was intended toward any of the artists, and I am truly sorry for two things: that you felt that I wronged you; and that you felt you could not immediately say something to me about it. I really felt like this was something you both had already thought about for a long time, and were set in your resolve about it, not willing to even listen to my response.
I realize that certain artists had preconceptions about how pmk was going to work. What I am disappointed by is that so few artists who did not know me previously did not understand what this show and faktura is about. This was a space, entirely run and paid for, by a young girl with a dream of bringing awesome avant guarde style shows to miami that might not find a home anywhere else in the city. It was about the art, at any cost to myself. I worked 5~6 night a week bartending just to pay for the rent and utilities, not to mention the flyers, the promotional materials, the screws, screwdrivers, nails and hammers. I built that place from nothing, with only the money drunk people at the bar found in their wallets to give me. I had no one working for me, practically no money coming in (I sold three works in two year) and a will to make it work no matter what. Every artist that ever worked w me knew or soon found out this was not a gallery, this was a space that put on art shows that directly reflected the work of me and the artist. For pmk I had great dreams of team work, some of which fell threw and some of which came together beautifully. The octopus building being open for example worked great, thank you. But the nightmare of transporting the karts there, stuffing 200+ mailers, cleaning the space, hanging the show, painting the floor, and everything else fell squarely on my list of things I was responsible for. This is why the website took a while to get finished. This is why there was no one at the warehouse when my grandmother got sick, and why most everything was attacked by rats or suffered flood damage. Keeping a space up and running that is not fit for human or animal dwelling takes an enormous amount of work every day. And after over two years of sacrificing my life and all my hard earned money for an alternative art space I have grown very tired of people not seeing it for what I wished it would be seen as.
I am heart broken. I am completely heartbroken that now I can add to my list of things people found wrong with the one thing I poured more of myself into than any other venture in my life, an accusation of stealing an image from one of the artists.
It makes me fondly remember Warhol and smile.

Good luck with all that you two do in the future, may you be fortunate to find people as good and passionate about art as myself to work with in the future, and may you be a little more understanding and open when you need to clarify a wrong you believe done to you. Take care.
--Jacquelyn
Faktura Gallery Miami. FL
www.FakturaGallery.com

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