C U R R E N T L Y

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The Term “One Pager” refers to two different constructs of contemporary communication. 

1. Digitally speaking, the “One-Pager” is a single page website with no additional pages  such as’About,’ or ‘Services.' All the content sits within the same webpage traditionally in a long-scrolling layout. 

2. Pedagogically speaking, the “One-Pager” is an assignment given to students in which they are instructed to draw and write out what they learned or gathered from a reading, film, lecture, etc.on a single sheet of 8.5” x 11” printer paper. 

The “one-pager” in both of its contexts, is the result of one individual being strictly concerned with how they effectively communicate an idea to another whilst utilizing as little resources as possible: Communication becomes a question of how one can manifest the most out of their limited resources.

As a gallery, a space of community gathering, and a space of egalitarian information sharing, it felt appropriate to utilize the symbol of the “One-Pager” as it relates to its normative contexts to make an analogy or metaphor with which to box up creative responses to the historic experience of the novel COVID-19 virus.

In an era where bodies can’t be gathered for story telling, we can par our words to cyberspace, as well as to the sheet. Where financial, health, safety, and governmental restrictions (any of which can be observed overlapping) can problematize or challenge art making— it can’t eliminate thought or quiet consideration of our shared experience. This is a compilation of some of those observations.

An international open-call was hosted from March 20th through May 31,2020 and an adjoining exhibition is now displayed and open for visitation with strict enforcement of social distancing practices from June 6th through July 31st, 2020. This zine is a compilation of all of the submissions. 

—houseguest gallery

Megan Bickel