Started in January 2004, Over and Over: Stick'em Up challenges issues of meaning and context by asking viewers to participate in the actual creation and completion of the work. Participants are asked to take a vinyl sticker and stick it anywhere. They are then asked to document their choice in placing the sticker via a photograph that is uploaded onto a website. This forces the viewer to become an active participant in the process of creating something outside the confines of the white walls of a gallery space. While the sticker itself is devoid of significant meaning as an object within the gallery, the action of placing the sticker is what, instead, becomes the genesis of meaning. The work, then, creates visual and contextual connections between object and place, significance and meaning, temporality and permanence. The final culmination of the project will be both a screen-based collection of photographs and a bound book.
We ask you to document the placement of the work via a photograph, upload your images on
Instagram and use the #overandoverproject
Follow the project @overandoverproject
Send images to overandoversticker@gmail.com for inclusion in future print publications of the project.
Want a sticker? email us at overandoversticker@gmail.com.