creative time

I’ve been reading The Book by Creative Time, a LONG running (33yrs) public arts organisation based in New York – it is amazing!
Here are some quotes:
FROM THE SURPRISE CHAPTER
“Creative Time’s old motto, “art where you least expect it,” points to the organisation’s love of creating profound experiences through unexpected encounters with art in unusual places. [...]

psychogeographic mapping

I see this project as a sort of psychogeographic mapping of Sydney’s unwanted. Mapping objects of refuse and bringing them together into some sort of iconic ‘landmark*’ tribute to the discarded, rejected, and forgotten.
*note the amount of people who want to be photographed and take photos of the ‘livingroom’ is kind of absurd [...]

some relevant projects…

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The Permanent Plaza by Public Architecture
http://www.parkingday.org/public_arch/index.html
in their words….
“Public Architecture’s Open Space Strategy proposes to reconfigure Folsom and Howard as two-way streets, while still accommodating intensive traffic. At the heart of the plan is a proposal to make Folsom more pedestrian-oriented, with generous sidewalks creating new spaces for a variety of outdoor activities and [...]

The Gleaners and I

French documentary by Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I looks into the historical tradition of Gleaning in French culture, as well as the urban and post-harvest rural gleaners of today. From dumpster divers to post-harvest potato gleaners, she looks at the politics of waste and scavaging. Varda talks to a huge [...]

This Was Lost, This Was Found

This Was Lost, This Was Found, a project by Philadelphia based J. Meredith Warner and Jeremy Beaudry
This project maps out lost textiles that have been found throughout the streets of Philadelphia. Arrows are placed next to the objects, pointing towards the nearby disused textiles factory.
“This Was Lost, This Was Found marks lost items [...]

quotes from Sal Randolph

some notes from Sal Randolph’s pertinent essays on socially interactive art and ’social architecture.’
from her 2003 essay Notes on Social Architectures as Art Forms
“Social architectures as artworks are always functional artworks. People need a purpose for becoming part of the social organization beyond the simple fact that they are participating in an artwork, [...]

Thomas Hirschorn

Les Monstres is a project I came across by Thomas Hirschorn, who is a visual artist/designer who often exhibits in huge museums like the Tate, as well as on the streets and in the public.
In this project, and a similar work called ’someone takes care of my work’ Hirschorn places his sculptures on the [...]

Alex Villar

Looking into Lee Walton reminded me of Alex Villar, who I was researching last year in a project about psychogeography… here are a couple of his relevant projects…

Waste Management – Villar repurposes old dumpsters into cinemas, with video documentation of physical interventions in dumpsters and garbage heaps.
“Waste Management reflects upon what is considered [...]

Lee Walton

I have been looking into the work of New York based artist Lee Walton, who makes playful interventions into everyday life, making videos along the way.
I am especially interested in these three projects – Relocating, The Serial Conversationalist and
Making Changes (New York).

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Relocating
2007
Lee Walton spends the day relocationg objects on the streets of New [...]

first images of push and pull

first images of push and pull
Originally uploaded by bilateral

this is an image from Lucas, of a reenactment of Kaprow’s ‘Push and Pull’ that he saw in New York.