Edition brief: Three-month relay#

Status: Backlog hypothesis

Proposition#

A small set of works lives with a small set of hosts for three months at a time. The host joins the relay, not an inventory service. Movement, delayed context, and the temporary loss of a work that has become familiar are part of the edition.

The pairing#

The works need to sustain change through duration and placement without being reduced to interchangeable rental stock. Artists receive a release form in which circulation and reception can become material. Hosts receive enough time for attraction, irritation, indifference, or attachment to change before the work moves.

Possible score#

• Duration: several three-month stays, total run set with the works.
• Allocation: constrained chance, authored by MOOI NIET.; physical safety and suitability can limit the draw.
• Rotation: required at each handoff.
• Contribution: perhaps one optional note intended only for the next host.
• Enrichment: context can arrive at handoff rather than all at once.
• Secret: a fragment may travel across works without every host seeing the whole.
• Digital fossil: preserve the works, declared relay, and privacy-safe movement; notes survive only if the score gives them a public afterlife.
• Closure: reassemble the works; return, reveal, destroy, or preserve notes according to the declared score.

If a host leaves early, MOOI NIET. collects the work, applies the edition's stated early-pickup terms, and authors a replacement, rerouting, or visible gap. The host is not entitled to a more agreeable substitute merely because the work did not please them.

What this tests#

• Whether a declared end changes attention to a work.
• Whether movement produces a relation that ordinary rental does not.
• Whether one bounded trace can connect hosts without becoming a social layer.
• Whether an artist receives something genuinely interesting from surrendering part of the work's context and reception.

Refusals#

No public host profiles, reaction log, rotation streak, popularity ranking, inventory browsing disguised as chance, or compulsory meaning-making.

Open before release#

The artists and works, cohort size, actual run, care and insurance, note permissions, money flow, handoff capacity, and closure all need a real brief.