“We ask you to participate in a research project initiated by Linus Elmes, Director of UKS. The project is supported by the Norwegian Art Council and conducted in association with Torpedo Press, Norway.

“We are currently collecting facsimile material to be published in an Encyclopaedia with the working title “No Gods, No Parents”. Our intention is to reflect the experience of autonomous artistic practice. We are aiming to reveal the unconscious cognitive system of individual artists, curators, thinkers and others involved in the self-organized and artist run scene.

“We are not commissioning texts but collecting existing documents of various forms, such as: invitations, manifestos, proposals, lists, applications, correspondence, legal and financial statements, formal requests and letters of intent.

“We think that you, due to your experience in the field, might have such material; something you consider to be of extraordinary interest, something that reveals the very fundamentals of your practice and/or mechanisms that constitute the context that you operate within.

“We would kindly ask you to share documents with us. It can be any number of pages but it has to be scanned and sent to us by email as an image or a PDF, or printed and sent by post.

“We hope that you consider participating and contributing to the encyclopaedia, however there will be a selection process and we cannot guarantee the publication of all sent material.

“Our intention is to reach out as far as possible and we invite you to forward this to other possible contributors! Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.”

Contact: nono@uks.no
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UNGE KUNSTNERES SAMFUND
(YOUNG ARTISTS ASSOCIATION)