Sophia Le Fraga & BHQFU Want Your Help Authoring a Poem for NADA Art Fair

As part of her course (co-taught with Ana Božičević) at Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), "The Poetic Act," Sophia Le Fraga will be inviting participation in a social media poem-project—in conjunction with the NADA Art Fair, taking place this weekend—via the hashtag #NADAdrift, says Forbes Magazine.

Participants–whether they are at NADA or not–are invited to use the hashtag #NADAdrift on Twitter and Instagram to help author a “long-form, collectively-authored, digital poem” that will be displayed on ipads at NADA New York. BHQFU faculty note that the piece will be “wholly inclusive to anyone who wants to engage the experiment,” and “anyone could hypothetically participate, whether they actually attend the fair or not.”

The tuition-less, degree-eschewing art school calls the piece a subversion of social media, poetry, and visual art conventions. The piece aims to be a “nonsensical and inconsistent river of thoughts, jokes, images, quips, and non sequiturs illustrating the slippery (but hopefully ultimately fascinating) relationship between contemporary art and the perceived discipline of poetry.” The group claims it has no practical or commercial purpose, though it will be on display at a commercial art fair and field many contributions from dealers and collectors. We’ll have to follow the #NADAdrift hashtag to see whether this artistic elevation of the hashtag promotes business as usual or opens unexpected new conversations.

BHQFU will be at booth 1.25 all weekend. And at 5:00 PM today:

5pm: BHQFU Transparent Critique

Class is in session! Join BHQFU on Friday, May 15th from 5-6:30pm at NADA New York for Transparent Critique, an open-view, interdisciplinary critique class session featuring BHQFU faculty, staff, and students from spring semester 2015. Embedding this class into the fabric of an art fair model furthers our mission of illustrating that BHQFU is not simply a physical location at 34 Ave A; rather, it is a series of questions, a disposition.

Have fun!