The Travellers Box Project   There are two elements to the project: The International Box and The Local Box. The structure is the same for both, with the exception that the context of the Local Box stems from a national-local context, mainly based around a small urban community in Denmark, specifically the town Vodskov in North Jutland, and work made will reflect this. Artists are most often sourced via the curator / co-curators, however the project is open and short proposals outlining an interest in the project and how one’s practice connects with it are welcome and in fact encouraged. Co-curators - The International Travellers Box: Karen Ay (London) - Tulle Ruth (Oslo) - Cole Wimpee (New York) Per-Arne Strang (Stockholm) - James R. Ford (Wellington NZ) - WRMC Collective, Andrew Y. Ames and Alexia Mellor (Boston) and the team behind The Travellers Box Structure Artists who receive The Travellers Box are encouraged (but not limited) to work with issues concerning socio-cultural relations as well as related issues within the artistic community itself. The works can be based on an interpretation of the cultural divide in attitudes, habits, lifestyles, places, spaces, or by private individuals’ complexity. Within those realms, politically-oriented, perhaps sensitive issues can be taken on, examined, considered and incorporated into the artistic process.   The Box - manual Information and guidelines for artists and co-curators   CONCEPT   The Travellers Box project is an artistic discourse between artists, whereby both analysis and production play a part. Its foundation rests on the notion of collaboration in that individual artists’ viewpoints, thoughts and interactions with the Box, combine with the relationships that develop because of it, and manifest themselves in various forms. Its creation and interpretation is therefore driven by artists both interacting with the Box but also building a series of networked relationships, both nationally and globally. From this, we hope that many relationships and conversations are explored and developed as the project unfolds. As well, because of the mobile, global nature of the project, it is constantly evolving and therefore in some ways, quite unfixed and malleable.   In addition to developing these conversations and relationships, one of the primary ideas behind the project is to explore the notion of being a facilitator in relation to the establishment of new strategies, constructs, structures and platforms in which to create art.   To that end, The Travellers Box project wishes to explore the notion of contemporary art in relation to its construction, communication and eventual presentation to a wider audience. It is aimed at demonstrating and communicating art in a wide cultural and creative context, using a range of expressions and artforms, such as visual art, music, writing, performance, etc,. and in those various contexts, exploring a myriad of cultural ideas and discourses such as politics, cultural constructs, sustainability, the notion of playfulness and fantasy in relation to art, and so on. It therefore becomes a vital forum for discussing and sharing ideas. There is also a strong desire for change and development within this context. The Travellers Box project aims to be a player and facilitator in relation to the establishment of new strategies, constructs and structures in order to create new platforms for practitioners to develop work and share ideas via different knowledge areas. It in a sense becomes an ‘analysis apparatus’ – the objects become a vehicle, or trajectory, from which these ideas can be explored and communicated.   The Travellers Box intermediary art works whose study areas illustrate and document the work in fields like: social constructions and ideological factors in terms of their relationship to contemporary art, social processes, establishment of new forms of cooperation and communication, exploring alternative lifestyles and cultural communities, creating a collective feeling, networking and developing relationships, knowledge sharing via transparent structures, and of course, the necessity for fiction and an element of playfulness...   Ultimately, The Travellers Box project aims to produce and work in an open, multi-voice, free, non-commercial and nonhierarchical context, and attaches importance to the involvement of a broad range of other discourses and disciplines. Setting a precedent and clarifying these values in a transparent way, where the main idea is creating a creative community and sharing knowledge, information and contacts across borders will create an artistic exchange and collaboration that crosses not only cultures and geographical borders but also different artistic practices. This breeding ground will by its very nature facilitate the sharing of artistic ideas for both the artists and the audience.     MAIN TEXT   Read the main concept text - Link: Concept of The Travellers Box