“Printed Project is the journal published by Visual Artists Ireland. Printed Project is an ongoing collaboration amongst artists, critics and curators, writers and readers devoted to making sense of contemporary art and culture.
Clarke & McDevitt have treated Printed Project issue 9, The Call of the Wild is now a Cry for Help, as an artist-led exhibition space – keeping the written content to a minimum in order to make the publication prominently visual. Moreover they write ‘As artists ourselves, we want our issue of Printed Project to be considered as an artwork in its own right’.
The contributions include solo visual projects, hand written text works and collaborative pages – with some artists choosing to literally work on top of the work of other artists - while others opted for a call-and-response approach, whereby new works were made in response to works sent.
A thread running through ‘The Call of the Wild is now a Cry for Help’ is a concern with the ways in which artists consider different ways and means of engaging with histories be they in terms of ones personal life; or work; or of a wider cultural and / or political scope.”
– Visual Artists Ireland