Co-organizers:

Maria Partridge

Candace Nicol

Communicable Dis-Ease is an inter-state collaborative project that demonstrates the ways that we as artists explore and express concerns within our environment. It also addresses fundamental questions such as: What are we as human beings and what are we becoming as a society? The purpose and goal of this project is to communicate something intimate or unresolved, to bridge the distance between individual creator, other artists, and viewers who will also become artistic participants with the evolution panels at Burning Man 2009. We hope to connect with each other and find a sense of kinship in our anxiety or dis-ease.

Other than format there is no “order” to this project or preconceived outcome. Like “Evolution” it is based on the concept of chance and change and evolves, in an organic way, from artist to artist. Each artist created a 5’ x 4‘ work of art and also created “transition panels” that connected their main image with the artist on the left and the artist on the right.

The artist’s first transition panel simultaneously continues with preceding artist’s theme and transitions into his/her own narrative on the larger panel and a smaller panel that is then forwarded to the next artist in the collaboration. Upon completion, the artwork transitions smoothly from one narrative to another, much like a conversation at a dinner party.