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This is the press release I sent to several newspapers, and radios in London, one week before the event:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I WANT TO MARRY YOU!
If you tell me more about you...
LONDON- October 9-
I am a French student in Central St Martins College of Art & Design, where I am completing at the moment a third year in Graphic Design. I moved to London in 2003 and totally felt in the charm of this creative and exciting place.
Within the context of my final year dissertation, I am interested in the relation between the audience and the medium, and how Art & Design are progressively transforming our consumerist and asymmetric gazing society into a more 'relational' one where the public can 'interact' or engage in dialogue with the author.
In this purpose, I decided to involve people in one of my piece of work by inviting them to a celebration that will take place next Sunday, 9th of October, at the Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, from 12pm to 3pm: MY WEDDING
Few weeks before, I informed my friends, family but also unknown people (passers-by, neighbours) about this marriage with a mysterious person, and spread the news through Internet (www.wantomarryou.blogspot.com), mails and leaflets in the street.
Next Sunday I will actually get married according to my own rules (with customised wedding certificates and wedding rings) to ALL THE PERSONS (no matters their age, physique, sexual tendency, and fortune...) who will accept in exchange to entertain me with a story about their own wedding or love experience.
Through this project I aim at building a dialogue with the public, by offering the individual a narrative for him to experience it with the group, but also to incite him to create his own one.
I would like to see the passive and voyeur spectator transforming himself into a storyteller and an active protagonist of the 21st century.
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Please have a further look to my dissertation on my blog (in the side-bar):
http://wantomarryou.blogspot.com/
Miss Laëtitia CORDIER
Lesdixchats@hotmail.com
www.wantomarryou.blogspot.com
Senior Lecturer/Head of Context in central St Martins:
Dr Paul Rennie
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I WANT TO MARRY YOU!
If you tell me more about you...
LONDON- October 9-
I am a French student in Central St Martins College of Art & Design, where I am completing at the moment a third year in Graphic Design. I moved to London in 2003 and totally felt in the charm of this creative and exciting place.
Within the context of my final year dissertation, I am interested in the relation between the audience and the medium, and how Art & Design are progressively transforming our consumerist and asymmetric gazing society into a more 'relational' one where the public can 'interact' or engage in dialogue with the author.
In this purpose, I decided to involve people in one of my piece of work by inviting them to a celebration that will take place next Sunday, 9th of October, at the Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, from 12pm to 3pm: MY WEDDING
Few weeks before, I informed my friends, family but also unknown people (passers-by, neighbours) about this marriage with a mysterious person, and spread the news through Internet (www.wantomarryou.blogspot.com), mails and leaflets in the street.
Next Sunday I will actually get married according to my own rules (with customised wedding certificates and wedding rings) to ALL THE PERSONS (no matters their age, physique, sexual tendency, and fortune...) who will accept in exchange to entertain me with a story about their own wedding or love experience.
Through this project I aim at building a dialogue with the public, by offering the individual a narrative for him to experience it with the group, but also to incite him to create his own one.
I would like to see the passive and voyeur spectator transforming himself into a storyteller and an active protagonist of the 21st century.
###
Please have a further look to my dissertation on my blog (in the side-bar):
http://wantomarryou.blogspot.com/
Miss Laëtitia CORDIER
Lesdixchats@hotmail.com
www.wantomarryou.blogspot.com
Senior Lecturer/Head of Context in central St Martins:
Dr Paul Rennie
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