Cc: Everybody

Hello.

This is a project by Brianna McCarthy and myself - our first collaborative work :]

The texts in the signs we made are copied from actual classified ads and the title of each piece is name of the local newspaper the ad was found in and the date of publication.

We've been working on this for months now and since the nature of the content of some of the pieces fit right in with Erotic Art Week's intention of opening discussion around sex and sexuality in Trinidad, we're exhibiting the first wave of signs at EAW2010.

Cc: Everybody is installed at Studio (on the corner of Ariapita Avenue and Luis Street (pictured below)) and at Brooklyn Bar (corner Roberts and Carlos streets, woodbrook (images to follow)). Pieces are being offered for sale and will be on show for all of Erotic Art Week, 21-31 July, 2010.

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Cc: Everybody

Classified, Confidential - Everybody

Cc: Everybody explores the notion of privacy in the public domain. The project engages two common local media: the personals that appear in the national newspapers and a form of guerrilla street advertising developed locally to promote public parties. The publication of these, sometimes explicit, personal ads in the national domain may be considered surprising, given the context of a conservative, post-colonial island community. Cc: Everybody captures these private bits of black and white content and reproduces them, verbatim, in a most public and colourful medium. Cc:Everybody presents and interrelates this contemporary dichotomy as erotic art.

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Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 5)


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Sunday Express Classifieds - 24th January, 2010


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 3)


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_3


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_2

More photos of the work; finished, in progress and installed; can be viewed in this flickr set and will be added in the coming days.

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-Rodell.