Steven James Finch is creating grr
art collabs in a hand-made nomadic home
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GRR TEAM SALARY
I have a brilliant
team of people helping me make this project amazing, and they deserve
pay. They are professional designers, photographers, and artists.
Your money will go towards their futures, and will also go towards
the grr project. More resources for the team means that the project
is better designed, documented, and run. Everybody will have much joy in their pockets.
First Seed: Literature
These funds will go
towards turning the Grr into a supportive literary space. I will
continue to run monthly literary salons such as Kiss the Pages. I
will collaborate with local writers to run workshops, as well as book
launches, and poetry nights. I will also organise short-term
co-residencies and co-labs with local writers. Magic words will happen.
Second Seed: An Exhibition Space
I will turn the Grr into a salon-style exhibition space, and use these funds to develop a nomadic visual arts program. These would involve redesigning the space to better accommodate the display of artwork, acquiring objects (podiums, hanging equipment, and lighting), and developing visual and online communication to better market the artwork. The program's focus will be on both giving new life to artworks that have previously been exhibited, and on exhibiting ephemeral artworks made specifically for this unique nomadic space. New and emerging artists will be given preference, but all artists would be welcome to collaborate.
I understand that this is audacious. Part of what makes me excited about this, and about the project in general, is that it embodies a willingness to prove the dictum that "If we can do this with nothing, then we can do this with everything." That is the magic of this, and that is what I want to share with you.
With regards to all objects, I am going to negotiate with local residents of Perth so that these items may be time-shared. In keeping with the project goals of reducing the amount of waste and building supportive networks with local communities. So the investments that are made into grr will feed back into the creative community of Perth.
I understand that this is audacious. Part of what makes me excited about this, and about the project in general, is that it embodies a willingness to prove the dictum that "If we can do this with nothing, then we can do this with everything." That is the magic of this, and that is what I want to share with you.
With regards to all objects, I am going to negotiate with local residents of Perth so that these items may be time-shared. In keeping with the project goals of reducing the amount of waste and building supportive networks with local communities. So the investments that are made into grr will feed back into the creative community of Perth.
Flower: A Theatre Space
The grr would become
a part-time theatre space. It would be called Flower. It would have
both an indoor and outdoor stage. The funds would go towards a PA
system, digital projector, and lighting, as well as other basic necessities of the stage. Flower will obviously favour theatre shows
that are more mobile, with minimal set design, but will still be open
to proposals from all theatre companies.
Flower will also feature local music nights.
Again, with regards to all objects, I am going to negotiate with local residents of Perth so that these items may be time-shared. In keeping with the project goals of reducing the amount of waste and building supportive networks with local communities. So the investments that are made into grr will feed back into the creative community of Perth.
About
I am a writer, editor, publisher and performer. I live in a travelling hand-made home that I affectionately refer to as Grr. I am studying a PhD at Curtin University. I am collaborating on an exhibition of floriographic poetry with Alina Tang (Giant Pansy) called Anthologia.
In the past, I've been the managing editor for the creative writing and art journal dotdotdash, and a founding member of the Perth Zine Collective, now known as Aunty Mabel’s Zine Distro. I've also had work published in Cottonmouth, Sitelines, Voiceworks, and in the Fremantle Press short story collection The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and other stories.
In the past, I've been the managing editor for the creative writing and art journal dotdotdash, and a founding member of the Perth Zine Collective, now known as Aunty Mabel’s Zine Distro. I've also had work published in Cottonmouth, Sitelines, Voiceworks, and in the Fremantle Press short story collection The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and other stories.
Location
Perth WA, Australia
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(Thank you to Kristinn Hermanniusson for the beautiful picture of Grr)
My name is Steven James Finch. I am an emerging writer from Perth. I was the managing editor of dotdotdash, a creative journal of art and literature, for 4 years. I am studying a PhD part-time in literature. I have been writing a novel about time travel and what it means to be a good person. I am about to do something incredibly ridiculous.
I have built a yurt. Amazing friends have helped me do this. I plan to live and work in it for a year. It is my grr. I will stay in backyards and public spaces, collaborating with local residents and artists. I will grow gardens. I will host creative salons, book launches, community dinners, gigs, exhibitions, and theatre shows in grr.
This is my dream.
I will have help with this project from an incredible team. Janet Carter (OpenKitchen collaborator), George Finch (Dad, Construction Consultant), Lincoln Russell (Filmmaker) and Sal Briggs-Goodridge (Filmmaker, Performer), Desmond Tan (Designer), Kate Greenaway (Art Direction), Kristinn Hermanniusson (Photographer), and Claire Bushby (Permaculture Consultant, Art Direction).
This project is less about being self-sustainable or living off the grid. It is about sustaining selves, it is about turning the grid into something that engenders care and love.
I want to help local art communities flourish. I want people to live and breathe art. I want to help grow what is beautiful and invokes passion. What gives people the feeling of being part of a rich tapestry, the feeling that yes, we are together, and together, we make good. We all know this to be a difficult time for the arts. It's a time to rally behind the art that we believe in, and help each other.
grr will be an open space that hosts productions from theatremakers, artists, musicians, writers and creatives. If you want to perform a play, have a salon-style exhibition, or launch an ep or a zine in the grr, then I will help you. I will share all I have. grr will be a place of peer support, skill exchange and creative dialogue. So in supporting this project, your funds will also go to supporting other creative people in Perth. And by collaboratng with grr, you can tap into the wellspring of other collaborators.
grr is everything I love: living more simply for personal, creative and ecological betterment, combining my artistic practice and my life, and creating tiny beautiful things with good people. I will live in this way no matter what. This is the life I have always wanted, and I want to share this with you and tell you that you can have the life you've always wanted too.
If the whole of our lives is an accumulation of tiny moments, then we should make all of these tiny moments mean something, so even when we are at the beginning we will already have won.
What you will get
I want to start off by saying that this is a HUGE EXPERIMENT! Some of the creative outcomes will be dependent on collaboration. Supporting this project means believing as I do that this idea will be wonderfully giving.
I am asking you to trust me.
I will be producing a lot of my content for free. Almost all of my writing, my journal entries and photos from the project. As well as some free events and dinners. The project will be filmed and short vlogs will be uploaded for free to my website. I will do all this because I believe that art should be freely shared. But I also need your help to make this project of living and working become something amazing. So I am also offering books, dinners, exclusive blog entries and video, postcards, events, zines, skill sharing and more to patreon subscribers. I will also offer anything extra that may come up. If another surprise collaboration happens, or I get a huge breakthrough and produce more content, I will gladly share it with you.
I will be charging per residency rather than monthly, as I do not want to unnecessarily charge people, and there may be possibly slow months when I move to a new place because I will need to get settled in. And I think it is easier to send out all the creative material that we have produced in a package at the end of each residency.
Because I believe in being as transparent as possible: 25% of your funds will go toward supporting me financially while I do this project full-time, while 75% of your funds will go towards my collaborators, hosts, and making the grr and grr project into things of wonder.
Although it is subscription-based, you may cancel your subscription before receiving a residency package at no cost to you. You can also set limits on how much money you donate if you need to. If you are struggling financially then email me if you would still like a package. I will help you how I can.
This is all very new and wild! So I will adjust everything according to what you, the patreon subscriber, think is best. I will be in constant communication with everyone during the project. In terms of copyright, everything I produce will be shared under the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)” license, which means others can remix, tweak, and build upon my work non-commercially, as long as they credit me and license their new creations under the identical terms. And the copyright of all collaborations will be negotiated with the person I am collaborating with. I will strive to make the grr project as fair and useful as possible.
The Near Future
At the end of the project, I will write a memoir that details my entire experience, and together with film-making friends we will film and edit a documentary. Both these things will be launched in the months following the completion of the project in July 2016.
Pending Grr's success, I will travel to regional places in WA, then interstate, and finally internationally. I will continue to use grr as a living and working space. It may change form, or be adjusted to be suitable for longer distances of travel, but it will still function as an artistic and collaborative node that engages with local art communities.
The Far Future
If this project is super successful, then I will use funds to establish a nomadic residency program for WA creatives. I would love to estabish a reasonably central creative arts house that offers long-term residencies in tiny (possibly nomadic) houses.I think that kind of living support network would help early career creatives become self-sustaining, and would help the growth of a beautiful supportive Perth arts scene. Because becoming a writer or an artist is not just something that you work on full-time, it is something that you live and breathe.
My name is Steven James Finch. I am an emerging writer from Perth. I was the managing editor of dotdotdash, a creative journal of art and literature, for 4 years. I am studying a PhD part-time in literature. I have been writing a novel about time travel and what it means to be a good person. I am about to do something incredibly ridiculous.
I have built a yurt. Amazing friends have helped me do this. I plan to live and work in it for a year. It is my grr. I will stay in backyards and public spaces, collaborating with local residents and artists. I will grow gardens. I will host creative salons, book launches, community dinners, gigs, exhibitions, and theatre shows in grr.
This is my dream.
I will have help with this project from an incredible team. Janet Carter (OpenKitchen collaborator), George Finch (Dad, Construction Consultant), Lincoln Russell (Filmmaker) and Sal Briggs-Goodridge (Filmmaker, Performer), Desmond Tan (Designer), Kate Greenaway (Art Direction), Kristinn Hermanniusson (Photographer), and Claire Bushby (Permaculture Consultant, Art Direction).
This project is less about being self-sustainable or living off the grid. It is about sustaining selves, it is about turning the grid into something that engenders care and love.
I want to help local art communities flourish. I want people to live and breathe art. I want to help grow what is beautiful and invokes passion. What gives people the feeling of being part of a rich tapestry, the feeling that yes, we are together, and together, we make good. We all know this to be a difficult time for the arts. It's a time to rally behind the art that we believe in, and help each other.
grr will be an open space that hosts productions from theatremakers, artists, musicians, writers and creatives. If you want to perform a play, have a salon-style exhibition, or launch an ep or a zine in the grr, then I will help you. I will share all I have. grr will be a place of peer support, skill exchange and creative dialogue. So in supporting this project, your funds will also go to supporting other creative people in Perth. And by collaboratng with grr, you can tap into the wellspring of other collaborators.
grr is everything I love: living more simply for personal, creative and ecological betterment, combining my artistic practice and my life, and creating tiny beautiful things with good people. I will live in this way no matter what. This is the life I have always wanted, and I want to share this with you and tell you that you can have the life you've always wanted too.
If the whole of our lives is an accumulation of tiny moments, then we should make all of these tiny moments mean something, so even when we are at the beginning we will already have won.
What you will get
I want to start off by saying that this is a HUGE EXPERIMENT! Some of the creative outcomes will be dependent on collaboration. Supporting this project means believing as I do that this idea will be wonderfully giving.
I am asking you to trust me.
I will be producing a lot of my content for free. Almost all of my writing, my journal entries and photos from the project. As well as some free events and dinners. The project will be filmed and short vlogs will be uploaded for free to my website. I will do all this because I believe that art should be freely shared. But I also need your help to make this project of living and working become something amazing. So I am also offering books, dinners, exclusive blog entries and video, postcards, events, zines, skill sharing and more to patreon subscribers. I will also offer anything extra that may come up. If another surprise collaboration happens, or I get a huge breakthrough and produce more content, I will gladly share it with you.
I will be charging per residency rather than monthly, as I do not want to unnecessarily charge people, and there may be possibly slow months when I move to a new place because I will need to get settled in. And I think it is easier to send out all the creative material that we have produced in a package at the end of each residency.
Because I believe in being as transparent as possible: 25% of your funds will go toward supporting me financially while I do this project full-time, while 75% of your funds will go towards my collaborators, hosts, and making the grr and grr project into things of wonder.
Although it is subscription-based, you may cancel your subscription before receiving a residency package at no cost to you. You can also set limits on how much money you donate if you need to. If you are struggling financially then email me if you would still like a package. I will help you how I can.
This is all very new and wild! So I will adjust everything according to what you, the patreon subscriber, think is best. I will be in constant communication with everyone during the project. In terms of copyright, everything I produce will be shared under the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)” license, which means others can remix, tweak, and build upon my work non-commercially, as long as they credit me and license their new creations under the identical terms. And the copyright of all collaborations will be negotiated with the person I am collaborating with. I will strive to make the grr project as fair and useful as possible.
The Near Future
At the end of the project, I will write a memoir that details my entire experience, and together with film-making friends we will film and edit a documentary. Both these things will be launched in the months following the completion of the project in July 2016.
Pending Grr's success, I will travel to regional places in WA, then interstate, and finally internationally. I will continue to use grr as a living and working space. It may change form, or be adjusted to be suitable for longer distances of travel, but it will still function as an artistic and collaborative node that engages with local art communities.
The Far Future
If this project is super successful, then I will use funds to establish a nomadic residency program for WA creatives. I would love to estabish a reasonably central creative arts house that offers long-term residencies in tiny (possibly nomadic) houses.I think that kind of living support network would help early career creatives become self-sustaining, and would help the growth of a beautiful supportive Perth arts scene. Because becoming a writer or an artist is not just something that you work on full-time, it is something that you live and breathe.