Change My Life leaflet
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
conceived Change My Life as a collaborative exchange
of influential ideas. The artists invite you to encourage cultural
evolution by participating in the exchange they've established. Each
item exchanged is loaded with significance and acts as a host for
a self-replicating pattern of information, perhaps infecting its new
owner with a spark of its original meaning and potential.
Stephen Chobsky's book The Perks of Being
A Wallflower - an item donated to the Change My Life exchange
The project is nomadic, moving
from site to site, re-establising itself each time. The first manifestation
was at Waltons New School Of Music in Dublin as part of the exhibition
Rhythm-A-Ning,
curated by Declan Sheehan. The exchange was opened with a number of
objects selected and contributed by Iain & Jane. The first fifty
objects to pass through the exchange were:
01 Gazeuse - Gong. vinyl LP
02 Why I Am So Wise - Friedrich Nietzsche
03 Down And Out In Paris And London - George Orwell
04 The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger
05 Cover Versions - Adam Sweeting. Pimlico paperback
06 Mooch - Dan Fante. Rebel Inc. paperback
07 The Bandini Quartet - John Fante. Canongate paperback
08 Morvern Callar - Alan Warner. Vintage paperback
09 The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
10 Nil By Mouth. VHS video cassette
11 Totally Bill Hicks. VHS video cassette
12 The Cramps At Napa. VHS bootleg
13 Dogma. VHS video cassette
14 My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone. Audio cassette
15 Sign O The Times - Prince. Copied audio cassette
16 Greatest Hits - Lena Horne - Copied audio cassette
17 Live NEC + Peel Sessions - The Cure. Audio cassette
18 The Complete Animals - The Animals. Audio cassette
19 Ask Me Tomorrow - Mojave 3. CD
20 Can Our Love - Tindersticks. CD
21 De Stijl - The White Stripes. CD
22 Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan Band. CD
23 Heartattack & Vine - Tom Waits. Copied CD-R
24 Suicide - Suicide. Double CD
25 You And Me Both - Yazoo. CD
26 White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground. CD
27 Train Out Of It - Swell Maps. CD
28 Ende Neu - Einsturzende Neubauten. CD
29 Dry. PJ Harvey. CD
30 Let Love In - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. CD
31 The Frenz Experiment - The Fall. CD
32 Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins. CD
33 Tender Prey - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. CD
34 Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine. CD
35 Rejoycing In The Hands - Devendra Banhart. CD
36 Intoxicated Man + Pink Elephants - Mick Harvey. 2 CD's
37 We Love Cover Versions CD. Home made CD-R
38 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. DVD
39 A Tape For Lorna. Home made mix-tape
40 Open Your Heart - Human League. Seven inch single
41 At The Hop - Devendra Banhart. Seven inch single
42 Artists' Books. ACE exhibition catalogue
43 Free Will + What Is Right? Two school library books
44 Two Beatles Songbooks. Two song books
45 Beyond Japan - Mark Holborn. Exhibition catalogue
46 Screamadelica - Primal Scream. CD
47 Johnny Cash at San Quentin. CD
48 Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan. CD
49 Fuck art Let's Dance home-made mixtape
50 Barbed Wire Kisses - Jesus And Mary Chain. Audio tape
There are no absolute rules. This is an
experiment and as such will be whatever the participants collectively
make it. An invitation is extended to everyone to participate, but
the exchange only perpetuates if the idea is engaged in with generocity,
an open mind and a willingness to enter into the spirit of the adventure.
Following the installation in Dublin, Change
My Life relocated to Context
Galleries in Derry.
If you are interested in hosting a temporary
installation of Change My Life please contact
us.
Change My Life installation view in Dublin
Change My Life
A proposition
First initiated and installed
at Walton's New School of Music for Rhythm-A-Ning
in Dublin in April 2005.
For more information, visit
the project web site:
www.thiswillchangemylife.com
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