THE THING Quarterly
What:
THE THING Quarterly
Where:
In your letterbox
When:
Subscribe now for issue #1, released August 13
How much:
$120 US per year
A hundred and twenty bucks doesn't get you much these days in the way of human companionship. Sure, you could wrangle together some stranger for a buck fifty or so, but everyone knows the top shelf stuff starts at four figures, minimum.
It wasn't always this way. Remember love letters? Real ones? Coming home to find an envelope with your name written on it. In pen. By hand. How you took that letter and held it in your pocket for months. Opening and folding it shut until it wore away the very words it carried on its delicate fibre surface...
Jonn Hershend and Will Rogan do. They are the editors of THE THING, a unique object-based quarterly publication.
THE THING is a subscription-based, mail-order, art project. Each year four artists, writers, filmmakers or musicians are invited to create a household object that somehow incorporates text. Every three months a new object will be hand wrapped in brown paper and string by the editors and mailed to subscribers. (Holy sh*t!)
The first four artists involved in the project will be Miranda July (Issue 1), Anne Walsh (Issue 2), Kota Ezawa (Issue 3), and Trisha Donnelly (Issue 4).
Subscriptions cost a meagre 120 US dollars (about 140 AUD), and last a year, which is a bit longer than three to five seconds, and without all that awkward showering before and after.
Format: Project
Motivation: Pimp your coffee table
Keywords: Art, Miranda July
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