Stories from the Room
Submissions remain open
From the depths of Melbourne’s COVID-19 Stage 4 lockdown, TarraWarra Museum of Art commissioned a new series of artistic inquiries that explore the role of art in a global pandemic. The series, titled Art as essential activity: an inquiry, is conceived and curated by Melbourne-based independent curator Biljana Ciric.
The first project in the series is New York/China-based Chinese-American artist Jasphy Zheng with Stories from the Room, a participatory work that collects personal writings about the shared experience of living through the COVID-19 pandemic. During Melbourne’s second lockdown, the artist invited everyone to permanently contribute their reflections, journals, or memos to help build a living archive that documents this unique moment in history.
Submissions remain open for Stories from the Room and you can participate by simply documenting your reflections on living through the COVID-19 pandemic through letters, emails, personal writing, journals or memos, at any length and in any language you prefer.
Send your writings to storiesfromtheroom@twma.com.au or by post to Stories from the Room, c/- TarraWarra Museum of Art, PO Box 310, Healesville VIC 3777, Australia.
Please ensure your communication is dated, with your name and location only. Do not include any private details (such as street address, telephone or email) in the letter. Anonymous quotes may be published online or used for promotional purposes. All received writing will be saved in a digital archive. Submissions will not be returned to the sender, and will remain as part of the artwork.
There are no future plans to exhibit the project at TWMA, however the artist may choose to exhibit the archive in part or in whole in some other iteration.