(Tshirt print by Jackson Fledermaus, 2008)
Introducing an annual and until our death December event agreement between
American artist John Burtle and Danish Artist Stine Marie Jacobsen. The events
will be simultaneously taking place depending on where the artists are residing.
We invited american artist Jackson Fledermaus make something for our first
December event exhibition in 2008. Fledermaus decided to design a t-shirt
print for us both to wear for x-mas. Fledermaus made the print in loving memory
of the Walmart worker Jdimytai Damour, who was trampled to death by shoppers
in a Walmart in Valley Stream, N.Y. on the 28th of November 2008.
"Ugly shopping scenes, a few involving injuries, have become commonplace
during the bargain-hunting ritual known as Black Friday, the day after Federation,
said it had never heard of a worker being Thanksgiving. The nation's largest retail
group, the National Retail killed on Black Friday."
In 2009 we featured 34 artists that had been asked to send out postcards to a
recipients chosen by the other 'coupled' artist. Please see here for pictures.