stage exchange

Participate in stage exchange:
Find a stage you connect with. Write a message for someone in that stage. Sign it with the stage you are in and a way to contact you. Send the message to stage exchange. Receive a message for your stage.

Scroll down for a form where you can submit.

what?


A message exchange practice that detaches specific individual identity and explores pervasive stages of experience instead:

stage

   
[steyj] noun
1. The distance between stopping places on a journey
3. A period of life or life experience

ex•change
   
[iks-cheynj] verb
1. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange
2. To give up (something) for something else; part with for some equivalent; change for another

where?


Find intersections of stage exchange:

1. throughout the city of
Houston, where stage exchange boxes are posted. scroll down for a map.
2. on the internet, at stageexchange.blogspot.com and via e-mail. send your message directly to
stageexchange@yahoo.com
3. through the
mail, intercepted at 238 Portland St #6, Houston TX 77006
4. at
labotanica, 2316 Elgin, Houston, TX 77004 where the full collection can be read and participated in

which?

Stages:
Understanding what is really important to you
Reconnecting
Being left
Having a baby
Asking for help
Forgiving
Leaving
Finding
Hitting rock bottom
Making the hardest decision
Falling in love
Being betrayed
Alone
Being recognized
Getting sick
Facing the truth
Discovering your gift
Getting clean
Relapsing
Graduating
Bearing it all
Letting them down
Accepting yourself
Losing
Starting all over again

why?


stage exchange

To map life experience as a simultaneously occuring, ever repeating, boundless site.

To link by category of experience what is usually fractured by category of identity.

To find which of our individual impasses are deeply known by others.

To archive artifacts of our most human exchanges.

To defy aloneness.

installed stage exchange boxes