"Childhood Stories" 1998		Kim Irwin/Max Below Toledo Performance artists (collaborative team) "We have collaborated on community-based performance events and Polaroid documentation since 1986. Our focus continues to be art/life activities including our work roles, our values, our images, and our relationships with our communities. We use the process of collaboration to emphasize flexibility, spontaneity, and sensitivity rather than control, autonomy, and isolation. Our goals are to recognize and celebrate each other, to be inclusive, to be playful with our desires and curiosities, and to visually and poetically keep ourselves excited about who we are and what we are doing. Our new series of 20x24 Polaroids uses collaboration between ourselves and others to collect and tell our childhood dreams, fantasies and stories. In some cases, they image a reenactment of early childhood play with our original toys and objects. For us the most significant part of our process is to encourage play while capturing the enigmas and lost poetry of childhood. From this play we create an intimate connection between childhood and adult sexuality." Kim Irwin and Max Below Toledo have worked together as a collaborative team since 1986 creating community art events based on large-and small-format Polaroid photography. They live in Durham. Return to the NC Artist Grant Award Recipients for 1998-99
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