As you will now most likely know, Mute has embarked on a crowdfunding campaign for its 2013 contributor budget. We want to continue to pay all of the writers, artists, illustrators and photographers who help generate Mute’s unique editorial content, but this is difficult without core funding. We are now half-way into our campaign to raise a total of £5,500 with only one month to go! It’s been going very well so far (we are at 42% of our target at the time of writing), but with quite a way to go, the urgency of winning further support couldn’t be greater.
It is essential that we reach 100% of our target in the time allocated (28 days to go!) since crowdfunding works on an all or nothing model — if we don’t reach our target, we don’t receive a single penny of the donations that have already been so kindly pledged.
In recognition of our gratitude for your support we are carefully selecting thank you gifts from Mute’s community of contributors. We are excited to announce that we have three new artwork donations to give away – from artists Suzanne Treister, Vuk Ćosić, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Alberto Duman, John Russell, Johannes Paul Raether, Peter Kennard and Melanie Gilligan on which you can read more below....
Melanie Gilligan
A poster from a series of five made by Melanie Gilligan and Dan Mitchell. These were created for,
and used in, Melanie Gilligan's film Popular Unrest, May, 2010
London Postcards introduces us to a different perspective on some of London's most well known architectural 'landmarks' past and present. Five conventional, 'postcard style' views of these iconic structures of London have been subjected to a process of textual substitution, maintaining the spatial structure of the photographic image, but remapping each one of its constituent element with a textual, deadpan description of itself.
Image: Vuk Ćosić, History of Art for Airports: Venus, 1998
A DVD copy of early net.art project History of Art for Airports (1998) by the artist Vuk Ćosić. This piece was exhibited at the Slovenian Pavilion of the Venice Biennial in 2001 as part of the show 'Net.art per me' also curated by Ćosić. The piece is part of a series of 4 that retails for 7k€
Pledge £150 and receive one of two works by *Amy Balkin*
1) A letterpress poster made in conjunction to Balkin's ongoing attempt to create a permanent international commons: *This is the Public Domain* <http://thisisthepublicdomain.org> - a project referenced in Mute texts by: Hari Kunzru (2004) and Kate Rich (2007). The project is ongoing, and the poster references Bidder 70 (Tim DeChristopher), an American climate activist who was imprisoned for intervening in an oil and gas lease auction on public land in Utah.
2) *While People Sleep the State Dreams* was produced as one of a series of artist letterpress posters to be given away at In Protest at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2012. The statistic 2011 – Report concludes the US government classified 77 million documents in 2010, a 40% increase from 2009. Source: EFF is at the bottom of the poster.
Pledge £50 and receive a work by *Anja Kirschner & David Panos*
A recent publication, signed by the artists Anja Kirschner & David Panos, published to accompany their new film, Ultimate Substance, 2012. (http://www.secession.at/art/2012_kirschner-panos_e.html) Anja Kirschner & David Panos Ultimate Substance 96 pages, dimension: 230x310mm. Texts by Anja Kirschner and Richard Seaford English/German/Greek Secession 2012 Distribution: Revolver Verlag
The Mute magazine print archive has its first release for sale as an original, limited edition set of all fifty-one issues of the print versions of the magazine, covering twenty years of publishing from 1994 to 2014.
