- Announcing The Crappy Magic Experience 2018 Exhibition!
The Silo Room @ Track One
1201 4th Ave South, Nashville, TN 37210
Friday, November 30
evening 7-10pm
Saturday, December 1
afternoon and evening (Art Crawl) 3-10pm;
benefit auction at 9:30pm
The Crappy Magic Experience returns to Nashville this December Art Crawl Weekend at Track One in the Silo Room.
The two-night interactive event will feature a retail-style exhibition of objects and videos contributed by numerous artists, facilitated by a system of barcode-scanning kiosks.
**Call for entries ongoing - see below!**
This year we also celebrate the return of bins full of stuff you can dig around in and photograph (now they're shoppable)!
And we'll round out the December 1st Art Crawl closing with a Crappy Magic Benefit Auction in support of Nashville's Turnip Green Creative Reuse. That's 9:30pm Saturday, Dec 1!
The Crappy Magic Experience has been a popular fixture at the Nashville Art Crawl since 2016's inaugural show at Seed Space. Both that show and the 2017 sequel event at Abrasive Media earned "Best of Nashville" honors in the Nashville Scene. Crappy Magic Magazine booths and Experience kiosks have also sprung up recently at the Nashville Flea Market and art book fairs in Cincinnati and New York.
Keep up with the latest on Instagram: @crappy.magic
Deadlines for video submissions: November 12
Videos (or at least drafts of in-progress videos) submitted online per instructions below. Each video in the show must be accompanied by a physical item, which can be mailed to Crappy Magic, or handed off in-person in Nashville, but it is NOT necessary to deliver the physical item by the Nov 12 deadline. An item drop-off event will be announced for later in the month of November.
What is The Crappy Magic Experience?
The Crappy Magic Experience is an interactive art show and experimental video art/retail concept. Each piece we show in CMX consists of an ITEM that is paired with a VIDEO. Viewers select an ITEM and carry it to a computer kiosk, where they scan the ITEM to see its VIDEO. When an ITEM is sold, buyers also receive a copy of the corresponding VIDEO. Crappy Magic will work hard to make sales on your behalf in exchange for a commission on sales.
Please see the Experience page on this site for more information, including documentation of past exhibitions.
Instructions for submissions:
Each submission consists of one item, and one video which shows the item. You may make multiple submissions. There is no entry fee for submissions to this show.
ITEMS
The ITEM needs to be something durable that viewers can pick up and interact with. It should not be fragile or possess any sharp edges. If someone accidentally drops your item on the floor, we want that to be a survivable event for the item.
Most ITEMS are just found objects – though some contributors have made creative alterations to their objects. When professional artists participate in the Crappy Magic Experience, they usually submit ITEMS and VIDEOS that are, at some level, different or distinct from work they make for their personal shows.
David Hellams has a collection of potential items - if you are interested in browsing an image library and possibly acquiring an item for use in the show, please contact: david@crappymagic.com
VIDEOS
The VIDEO that you make with your ITEM is where you can really get creative. The whole idea of The Crappy Magic Experience is that we can sell an object as a work of art because the video makes it interesting.
Your video submission must meet these criteria:
Video submissions are made via Google Drive or Dropbox to david@crappymagic.com
Along with your video submission, please also email me with this information:
Notes on the submission process:
While inclusion in the show is not guaranteed, we want to be as inclusive as possible. You do not have to be a professional artist – or even identify an “artist” at all – to be part of The Crappy Magic Experience. If a submission doesn’t look like it’s going to work out, David will give you feedback on how we can get you into the show as long as you have made a video submission by the Priority deadline of October 22.
We will communicate with you via the email address you use to submit your video. You will need to confirm final pricing of all accepted submissions, as well as terms and conditions for participation, by email to have your work included in the show.
Videos (or at least drafts of in-progress videos) submitted online per instructions below. Each video in the show must be accompanied by a physical item, which can be mailed to Crappy Magic, or handed off in-person in Nashville, but it is NOT necessary to deliver the physical item by the Nov 12 deadline. An item drop-off event will be announced for later in the month of November.
What is The Crappy Magic Experience?
The Crappy Magic Experience is an interactive art show and experimental video art/retail concept. Each piece we show in CMX consists of an ITEM that is paired with a VIDEO. Viewers select an ITEM and carry it to a computer kiosk, where they scan the ITEM to see its VIDEO. When an ITEM is sold, buyers also receive a copy of the corresponding VIDEO. Crappy Magic will work hard to make sales on your behalf in exchange for a commission on sales.
Please see the Experience page on this site for more information, including documentation of past exhibitions.
Instructions for submissions:
Each submission consists of one item, and one video which shows the item. You may make multiple submissions. There is no entry fee for submissions to this show.
ITEMS
The ITEM needs to be something durable that viewers can pick up and interact with. It should not be fragile or possess any sharp edges. If someone accidentally drops your item on the floor, we want that to be a survivable event for the item.
Most ITEMS are just found objects – though some contributors have made creative alterations to their objects. When professional artists participate in the Crappy Magic Experience, they usually submit ITEMS and VIDEOS that are, at some level, different or distinct from work they make for their personal shows.
David Hellams has a collection of potential items - if you are interested in browsing an image library and possibly acquiring an item for use in the show, please contact: david@crappymagic.com
VIDEOS
The VIDEO that you make with your ITEM is where you can really get creative. The whole idea of The Crappy Magic Experience is that we can sell an object as a work of art because the video makes it interesting.
Your video submission must meet these criteria:
- 1. Videos should be no more than 5 minutes long - recommended length is under 4 minutes.
- 2. The video must show the actual item that is associated with it. It can show the item just part of the time, but we have to see the item in the video at some point.
- 3. Please do not use video or audio content you do not have the rights to use. It’s preferred that you generate original content for your submission.
- 4. It’s totally cool to use a cell phone camera for your video! But please film in landscape (horizontal) format if you can. All submitted video files should be landscape (horizontal) format.
- 5. Please submit videos as MP4 or MOV files.
Video submissions are made via Google Drive or Dropbox to david@crappymagic.com
Along with your video submission, please also email me with this information:
- Title of your Item/video
- Artist name(s)
- Optional: Artist(s) website URL
- Optional: Artist(s) Instagram handle
Your proposed price (Crappy Magic will take a 40% commission on sales for this show - please price accordingly)
Optional: a brief description of, or statement about, your item/video – you can think of this as like an artist statement -
Optional: physical/material composition of your item – you can think of this as like a list of media in an artwork
Notes on the submission process:
While inclusion in the show is not guaranteed, we want to be as inclusive as possible. You do not have to be a professional artist – or even identify an “artist” at all – to be part of The Crappy Magic Experience. If a submission doesn’t look like it’s going to work out, David will give you feedback on how we can get you into the show as long as you have made a video submission by the Priority deadline of October 22.
We will communicate with you via the email address you use to submit your video. You will need to confirm final pricing of all accepted submissions, as well as terms and conditions for participation, by email to have your work included in the show.
Crappy Magic is an enterprise by artist David Hellams. It encompasses both Crappy Magic magazine, and the interactive exhibition series The Crappy Magic Experience. These projects work to imbue found objects with creative energy using various media: photography, self-publishing, video, installation, performance, and more.