Free Utopian Projects!

Re-homing art supplies and art (art by me, art by others); new stuff and very old stuff; collectibles and collections; plants, non-essentials, furniture.

This is a study on value, melancholy, memories, generosity, hoarding and greed.

I believe Utopia is the symbiotic relationship between people, animals, the environment, the economy, politics, religion, philosophy.

This project asks you to consider the possibilities of a Utopian FREE economy that bypasses monetary exchange - think about the abundance of things and the ecological and economic impact of passing along instead of throwing away; receiving rather than purchasing. Consider the value of things, the value of art, art materials, objects - the value of memories, sentiment and stories.

Pass it on, pay it forward. Give free, get free. Cool right?

Jocelyn Meggait

Proprietor

(obsessive collector, conduit of things, artist)

contact: jocelyn@freeup.us


Thursday, May 31, 2012



Posts to the Facebook Page 
are free 




" Breathe, become, be, exhale, let go, you're free. Utopia is alive in me. You make your own utopia, and by sharing it can foster other Utopianists. We create utopia by being utopia, we become utopia by thinking utopia, we feel utopia by constantly meditating on and immersing ourselves in utopian visions. As each of us visualizes, so we direct and become utopianists. Utopianists arise, generate utopia now!!!!!! Don't let life beat you down, plan utopia, dream utopia, measure, color, sketch, CAD, video, carve, paint, spread, swim in/ through, drink, breathe, digest, excrete Utopia!!!! I love utopia, I am utopia, I share utopia. All we are saying is give UTOPIA a chance!!!! "











Saturday, May 19, 2012



subtext is free



Potted Cacti & Succulents (albany / el cerrito)


Date: 2011-12-23, 10:46AM PST



Losing home so they must go, today. About a dozen, mostly smallish/med cacti and succulents and one LARGE Blue Candle Cactus, all in nice ceramic/terra cotta pots.

Must pick up today. Will not hold.







reviews are free

KQED review by Kristen Farr:

 Jocelyn Maggait's Free: A Utopian Project was the aforementioned pile of junk, which is what it looked like at first glance. This makeshift store of objects was culled from the free section on Craigslist, then curated and stacked together in poignant, aesthetically pleasing piles of handled objects, many of which had a creative bent. The artist invited her audience to take something home and consider the history of the object. I scored a plastic hot dog bun for my fake food collection and wondered how many children or animals had slobbered on it since 1987, which was the production date stamped on the bottom.




SFChronicle review by Leah Garchik

This year's Mills College master of fine arts exhibition, "The Last Show on Earth," 
on all through May, features work by 12 artists.

Jocelyn Meggait's "Utopian Free Economy Project" is described in the online catalog as "a socially interactive installation in which all objects are offered for free with one small caveat - consider the object's past, present and future economic and ecological presence." The artist gathered a pile of stuff - including a piano, Polaroid cameras, labels, plaster molds and costumes - offered free on Craigslist, and is offering it free to gallery goers.
The photo installation of Susanna Corcoran, who tipped me off about this, is described as "intervening in the commonplace" to create "temporary situations." She poured colored milk into a reservoir, a bay and small containers, creating what she describes as "lunar landscapes or brain scans."







tossing things into the kiln
just to see what happens is free



 cropping is free