Permissions for Documentation is a bookwork/traveling-exhibition* commissioned by French Quarter Postal in the summer of 2024. It contains one-hundred bits of guidance for showing evidence of your conceptual art practice. Although easily reproducible, Permissions for Documentation exists as a singular object that requires the viewer to visit it, in order to see it (details below).
At its first site (from July 12 to September 14, 2024), visitors contacted FQP through social media to receive instructions on how to borrow the key for P.O. BOX 322 in the NOLA French Quarter post office. Visitors to the FQP could then spend as much time as desired with the bookwork (during normal post office hours), placing the bookwork back in the P.O. Box when they were done.
Read the review by Emily Farranto in the September 2024 issue of Antigravity, on page 15.
*HOST THIS BOOKWORK
Permissions for Documentation can be hosted by anyone on the planet for one-month increments.
By signing up to host/show this bookwork you are committing yourself to:
1. receiving it in the mail,
2. making sure it’s being cared for while in your possession,
3. telling others you have it (as formally or informally as you like),
4. and showing it to anyone who wants to see it (note: AS in the FQP iteration, you don’t have to be with the piece every time it is visited). The piece can be shown anywhere on the continuum of private to public—from your bathroom to your biennial—as long as these requirements are being met.
If you would like to include the bookwork in any official programming (e.g. an exhibition, lecture series, festival, etc.), please contact us at the link below to let us know your plans. We’re open to it; we just want to publicize the publicness of what you are doing. 5. At the conclusion of your month with the piece, you will be instructed on where to send it next. we ask that you cover the cost of shipping the piece to its next destination, however we don’t want cost to be an obstacle to you hosting the piece. We’ll cover it if you can’t!
6. Although documentation and sharing of your time with the bookwork is encouraged, please do not share its entirety in any other way than in-person.
Contact us to make Hosting arrangements.
