Crowd-sourcing ends Dec 17th to fund an extraordinary exhibition of energetic, passionate and powerful mark-making drawings. These highly stylized documents are products from the conceptual art project ‘A Mark for Peace’, successfully crowd-sourced December 2013. The primary objective was to facilitate people coming together, working on non-political ideas with attitudes of peace and reconciliation. Palestine, Israel and Egypt where the chosen geography.
A premiere of an ‘A Mark for Peace’ performance took place in London August 2014 in the form of a staged physical theater. It received overwhelmingly positive feedback:
“Absolutely awesome! “
“Incredible. Very emotional, intriguing, beautiful.”
“It’s a very interesting concept and I like a lot the live drawing while performers dance on stage…Great images and drawings! “
“Thank you for making me think and create meanings of my own“
“The performance was very interesting and the acting was just brilliant…a great piece of art, great piece of art! “
“Such powerful acting, meticulous choice of music. Truly remarkable.”
As an actor on stage during the performance the project creator, John Ligda, produced many of the drawings to be exhibited. The remaining drawings where done across San Francisco, Brussels, Kharkiv, Chișinău, Warsaw and London in an attempt to reconcile creative success with social justice. The goal is to indirectly address significant world issues without intellectualism, politics or a stated agenda. A simple willingness to connect, be curious, and care about all people on earth is the basis for this work.
Learn more about the performance and discover how it might be staged again in places such as Kiev, Palestine, Central Africa or your perhaps your hometown. A successful exhibition is critical in keeping this important message and voice heard. Singed originals are available exclusively to John Ligda’s backers.
