About this project
NEW PRINT BY MARK WARREN JACQUES! ............................................................................................. Hello Friends, We only have 12 days left to meet our goal for funding Free Life Center! We appreciate your support and interest so much and can't wait to share the final project with you.
To show our appreciation for your support, in addition to our regular pledge incentives, we have a new original silk screen by Mark Warren Jacques available for a pledge of $20, that will be available until August 31st or we run out!
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION POST:
Artists and good friends, Seth Neefus and Mark Warren Jacques are creating a mobile installation where art can be viewed within a context that highlights and shares their ideals and lifestyle. With this mobile art center, they will showcase their collaborative and individual artworks, video and musical performances, as well as offer insight into this process through an exhibition catalogue. Seth and Mark hope to present a culmination of their artistic output and craftsmanship. Ultimately, visitors to the Free Life Center will be encouraged to find creativity, optimism, and freedom in their own lives.
Free Life Center will be a large scale hand-crafted, one-room structure, viewed as an art installation from the outside as well as an experience for the viewer on the inside. Built primarily from reclaimed materials, the building will emanate the artists’ homespun aesthetic and their commitment to a high level of craftsmanship. Within the structure, viewers will be encouraged to explore every nook and cranny; finding that each element of the building has been considered and is resonating with the 'energy' of the free life. As a modular structure, the Center can be modified in size and scope to be shown in traditional gallery spaces, as well as be installed in natural environments beyond the typical viewing context. 
Inspired by growth through adventure, Seth and Mark will go on tour with Free Life Center. At each location along the tour, the artists will be curating guest performances, workshops, jam sessions, drawing parties, dinner parties, and all around good times.
In addition to installing and touring with Free Life Center, the artists will produce a catalogue documenting this process and the artworks exhibited. This artists’ book of the journeys and making of Free Life Center will be available during the tour and after.
With your help, the funds raised through kickstarter.com will contribute to covering the costs of the structure’s building materials, book printing, video installation, instrument making, and tour transportation in a veggie oil-run converted van. Seth and Mark will spend several months building, installing, and creating the structure, artworks, music and video segments. They intend to tour with the Free Life Center beginning in the spring of 2010.
We hope you will be interested in supporting this project, joining our community, enjoying our pledge incentives; and in doing so promoting the free life.
For more information please visit: www.freelifecenter.com
contact: Ayni Raimondi, Project Manager ayni@freelifecenter.com Torrey Herbenar-Cook, Media Contact tcook@themachinedesign.com Also visit: www.markwarrenjacques.com www.sethneefus.com
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 31, 2009.
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Exclusive music and video downloads.
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'Process Zine' signed by artists, showcasing artwork, photography, beginning stages of building/developing project, artists’ insight and inspiration in creating and conceptualizing Free Life Center. Previous incentive included.
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Sweet little doodle by the artists. Plus previous incentives.
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Mixtape (on cassette tape) of original tracks featured in installation. Tape will be hand numbered, signed and doodled upon by the artists before arriving in your mailbox. Plus previous incentives.
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Limited edition screen printed collaborative print signed/numbered by the artists. Plus previous incentives.
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Exhibition Catalogue - Exhibition catalogue featuring artwork, installation documentation, and general genuine insights into the free life. Plus previous incentives.
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Generous donor will receive an “Art Instrument” created by Seth and Mark. Artistically hand-crafted stringed instruments and percussion. They are hand made and/or painted and integrated into the recordings and installation. You can play it and you can display it. Plus previous incentives.
Pledge $2,500 or more
We will install Free Life Center anywhere your heart desires. We will also perform in the Free Life Center at what would surely be a magical event. Seth and I will also personally discuss our views on the world at large, art, the meaning of life, and the benefits of the free life. Plus, all the other goods.
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Mark Warren Jacques
Born 1984. Columbus, Ohio
Lives, and works in Portland. Oregon
Mark Warren Jacques studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. He is a member of the Together Gallery collective in Portland’s Alberta Arts District and has exhibited works and installations in San Francisco, New York, L.A., Portland, Boston, and in Canada.
"Mark Warren Jacques lives within a web of art makers, musicians, skateboarders, and backyard revolutionaries. This close-knit community thrives on representing a sort of whimsy that harnesses the energy of idealism and is rooted in earthy spirituality. Lest you conclude that he lives in a world of naïvete, Jacques will surprise you with his gusto to love, question, and commit himself to the realities of hard work, ambition, and responsibility to his community."
-Leslie Miller. Fontanelle Gallery
Seth Neefus.
Born 1980. Hudson, New York
Lives, and works in Portland. Oregon
Seth has been painting, drawing, creating and building his whole life, Over the past five years he has shown works extensivley in his home city of Portland, Oregon, as well as in California and New York and has built many installations to bring the world of his artwork to life. He is a member of the Together Gallery collective in Portland’s Alberta Arts District.
"If it wasn't for my family, art and music I would be lost, I have not fully found my path, but I do have a good idea of the things that make life worth living for myself. I look at the the simple ways of life with so much respect, i look to nature for inspiration, I love being creative and alive."
-Seth Neefus
