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vero_agang
09-17-2006, 11:07 AM
I'm a vegan artist who makes art about the animal issue, this is my site:
http://www.veronicaibarra.com

I need a hell of a lot of receipts, thousands, so please please please....get some receipts and send them to me.

Ok, here´s the info:

Description of the installation

The walls of a room will be completely covered with thousands of receipts so the viewers will find themselves surrounded. The food products that contain animal derived ingredients will be underlined. Shopping receipts are the proof (real, symbolic and legal) of what we consume, an activity that has a underestimated effect on non-human animals.
Supply and demand.
Daily actions and their repercussions.

HELP NEEDED BADLY!
I´m asking people to please collect receipts from supermarkets and other food stores and send them to me by postal mail. I already have hundreds but I need thousands!

· They must contain primarily food products.
· I need both vegan receipts and non-vegan ones.
· It doesn't matter if they are wrinkled, dirty, badly printed, or what country they are from.
. Make a small pencil mark on the side of the products listed you know are not vegan.

Receipts fit in an envelope and are light, so it's easy and cheap to mail them.
As I way to thank the contributors (the wonderful people who believed in the project enough to make the effort), I will send them a photograph/postcard of the installation and a cool exclusive pin.

Some ideas to get receipts:
Keeping your own, asking you family and friends to give you theirs, picking up the ones discarded by shoppers at supermarkets and asking the cashier to give you some (I tell them I´m doing a stats project and they give me them gladly) Be creative!.
I recommend you put a special box for them at a prominent place in your house, that way you won´t forget to collect them, unlike some friends of mine who I have to keep reminding...

There is no proper deadline, although I would like to have enough receipts to prepare the installation by the end of February 2007.
I will show the piece at a good art space, probably in the UK. An explanatory text will accompany it.

If you would like to contribute, and be part of this project, write to veronica AT veronicaibarra.com and I will get back with my postal address.
Thanks!
http://www.veronicaibarra.com/vero/images_works/receipts_test1.jpg

Bowwowmeow
09-17-2006, 06:42 PM
I love your blog, Veronica. I shop frequently, due to havng a tiny fridge, so I'll start keeping my receipts, and send them along to you. :thumbsup:

Alistair
09-17-2006, 09:57 PM
Hey Veronica and welcome!

I am still collecting receipts - not to worry. :) Some of the items are rather unveganly since my housemate is not vegan. There is kangaroo on at least one of them. :(

Thankfully, I don't see him eat often - but he is happily collecting for you still when he remembers to.

Oracl
09-17-2006, 10:53 PM
Hi and welcome to the forum, vero_agang. :wave:

Sounds like a pretty easy task, collecting receipts! :agree: I'll start from today. :updn:

paul
09-18-2006, 06:21 AM
hello vero agang,i'll see what i can do.

we met many years ago vero, when we were both living in bristol, ( iwas living in the same house as clare) ( pisces, anti angerling group):wave:

my3labs
09-18-2006, 08:31 PM
I'll start collecting them too. How often should we send them to you?

vero_agang
09-18-2006, 10:18 PM
Thanks!
As long as they get to me by February 07, I don't mind when you send them or if you send them all in one go or you send them every so often.

Tiggerwoos
09-19-2006, 12:39 AM
I'll collect all of mine for you too.

Gliondrach
09-29-2006, 04:04 PM
Hello and welcome, Vero Agang.

I have already collected a few receipts and will send them when I have many more - well before February.

Regards,

Martin.

Fauxmage
09-29-2006, 08:51 PM
I am building up a good pile of receipts now myself. When my storage spot gets too full I will send them along. :agree:

vero_agang
10-02-2006, 06:13 AM
Thanks so much everyone!
please send me an email to veronica AT veronicaibarra.com so I can give you my postal address.

Oracl
11-21-2006, 09:56 PM
I just got a very nice thank you email from Veronica, as she has received my first collection of receipts. :)

Oracl
02-04-2007, 09:43 PM
Veronica is still accepting receipts, she has extended her deadline to May. I have just sent her another collection of mine. :)

Bowwowmeow
02-23-2007, 10:25 PM
I've got another bundle of receipts to send her too. :agree:

Gliondrach
02-24-2007, 02:32 PM
I continued collecting, just in case.

thevegantwins
06-21-2007, 06:20 AM
I'm reading the most recent issue of Veg News (Summer Fun Issue) and there is a profile on The 25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians. Veronica Ibarra AKA vero agang is profiled including her art installation. It says that her installation, "The Receipt Project", is part of an international group show, Ni Musculos Ni secreciones (Neither Muscles nor Secretions), featuring the work of 17 vegan artists. :yea: She also has a vegan animated short, The Little Bird Flies Away.

Hey, Oracl-I think I see your name on one of the receipts. :lol:

Gliondrach
06-21-2007, 07:30 AM
Well done, Veronica!

Where do I come on that list of 25?

thevegantwins
06-21-2007, 07:53 AM
Where do I come on that list of 25?
Gee, I must have missed your name. :rolleyes: However, Fuzzy is #3. :wolfwhis:

Gliondrach
06-21-2007, 07:57 AM
He'll be chuffed. But he should have been in first place. How many other veggies have saved the world so many times/

Oracl
06-21-2007, 10:54 PM
Hey, Oracl-I think I see your name on one of the receipts. :lol:
:rofl: Well I certainly sent her plenty! :agree: