HUNT FOR THE LOST is a collective public art project, creating an alternate discourse before and after the 2020 presidential election.
August 11, 2020- November 3, 2020
The Hunt for the Lost project experimented with creating an outdoor discursive space despite the pandemic lockdown and before the 2020 American presidential election, a time when too much seemed lost, including amicable discussion about critical issues. The basis of that experiment was applied trigger point theory. The need for that discursive space has morphed in my practice to virtual outreach with the SANZ project www.scienceartnetzero.org in advance of COP26 and building on the experience of the www.gulftogulf.org webcast.
3 Different Ways to Participate
Post on Instagram and tag #huntforthelost and @ghost_nets
Post on Facebook and tag with #huntforthelost
Email to ayakafujii.mh@gmail.com
Every week a prompt about something Lost from lead artist Aviva Rahmani was posted here, on Instagram & Facebook. You are welcome to contribute. We are still accepting contributions. You can “find” the lost using photography, video, drawing, writing, audio—any creative medium you like. We'll be posting all your submissions here at huntforthelost.org.
Take a look on the Prompts pages on this site to see what others have contributed already. We’re excited to imagine and create an alternate reality online! Please share this invitation to participate with your friends.
Who Can Participate?
This project isn’t just for artists. It’s for anyone struggling with current realities.
Can you imagine an alternate reality?
Note: All contributors retain copyright, but submission implies fair use for the project. We reserve the right to exclude any images determined to be inappropriate (due to copyright infringement, violent or sexual content).
AVIVA RAHMANI www.ghostnets.com
Pioneering ecological artist Aviva Rahmani exhibits, publishes and presents internationally. Her project, The Blued Trees Symphony (2015- present), legally challenges expanding fossil fuel infrastructures with copyrighted and sonified installations across miles of North America. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; the Hudson River Museum, NY; the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio; and the Joseph Beuys 100 days of Conference Pavilion, for the Venice Biennale, Italy. Her work has won numerous grants, fellowships and been written about internationally. She is an Affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder; gained her PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK and received her BFA and MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently completing a work memoir, "Divining Chaos," and a residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island where she is installing “Hunt for the Lost,” a morality scavenger hunt.
Working with Judith Mayer, judithmayer.com
And project manager Ayaka Fujii, contact for further information: ayakafujii.mh@gmail.com