#FROMKSTOYOU: Digital Projects
Project
March – June 2020
Design collective Garb created a specially commissioned work for Kunsthall Stavanger’s project series #FROMKSTOYOU. The work takes the form of a banner on the kunsthall’s building. The banner, Break Bread, represents a call to "break bread" – to all come together at the same table to share food and conversation.
"Responding to widespread protests following the murder of George Floyd, our social media feeds transformed into truly active spaces where live streams, organisational information and educational resource exchange drove crucial conversation across new platforms. We invite visitors to tear off a piece from our bread diagram and in doing so, feel inspired to move forward with their own anti-racist work, everyday and in every way."
The banner art steps out of the isolated digital sphere, and reminds people to continue their allyship outside of social media by engaging and showing up offline as well. To aid your self-education
Design collective Garb created a specially commissioned work for Kunsthall Stavanger’s project series #FROMKSTOYOU. The work takes the form of a banner on the kunsthall’s building. The banner, Break Bread, represents a call to "break bread" – to all come together at the same table to share food and conversation.
"Responding to widespread protests following the murder of George Floyd, our social media feeds transformed into truly active spaces where live streams, organisational information and educational resource exchange drove crucial conversation across new platforms. We invite visitors to tear off a piece from our bread diagram and in doing so, feel inspired to move forward with their own anti-racist work, everyday and in every way."
The banner art steps out of the isolated digital sphere, and reminds people to continue their allyship outside of social media by engaging and showing up offline as well. To aid your self-education we are sharing vital resources which are important in understanding the current shape of our world and the ways in which we must change. The resources list is curated by Black History Month Norway and this vital content is framed within a spider diagram made from seeded bread.
#FROMKSTOYOU is a new and ongoing project series by Kunsthall Stavanger initiated in response to the continuing COVID-19 crisis. Artists are commissioned to make new works that can spread solidarity and inspiration in this moment of time.
While most #FROMKSTOYOU projects take place on digital platforms – such as Kunsthall Stavanger’s website and Instagram – the banners that are hung on the outside of the kunsthall’s building, in the middle of one of Stavanger‘s traffic hubs, also bring the project into the physical space. Each of the banners are meant to bring art to the public in a safe and engaging way, visible for the hundreds, if not thousands, of onlookers that pass the building on a daily basis.
Break Bread is created by design collective Garb, with support by type design agency Dinamo.
The publishing resource list is by Black History Month Norway.
Garb
Garb is a partnership between researcher/artist Sophie Frances Coates and graphic designer Eloise Harris, who started working together remotely from London and Berlin since lockdown 2020. Garb attempts to find relationships between everyday life & materials, and functionality in objects and images. Garb is working towards positive futures, and, without losing themselves, are anti-tradition. Garb approaches each project as a researcher, to maintain freedom and flexibility, to tell their stories filled with facts.