New AiOP blog!

AiOP has a new blog!  We update it frequently, with topics ranging from the silly (Charlie Todd: Full Time Prankster) to the serious (Trayvon Martin Mural Causes Controversy).  So check it out for more news, more interviews, and more fun!

BroLab Reveals New Project

Unveiling this Thursday - Humps and Bumps, a new project by BroLab!

            BroLab, which consists of five metropolitan area artists, says the project encourages people to "slow down and take in the significance of their urban surroundings."  So it's fitting that the piece resembles a giant speed bump.  And it's no coincidence that it was commissioned by the Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program, along with the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL).

            You can join the unveiling ceremony this Thursday from 4-6 pm in Jamaica, Queens.  The ceremony takes place on Archer Avenue at Union Hall Street.  A reception will also be held at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning after the ceremony.

            Humps and Bumps was recently featured in The Daily News: http://tinyurl.com/cxpjm2a Congratulations to BroLab for their recognition!

Click here for more information: brolab.org/2012/04/humps-and-bumps/

Or find BroLab on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brolab

Carolina Mayorga, AiOP 2011 artist, is making soup! Make a donation to her Kickstarter campaign

Make a donation here:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1396760857/the-la-times-food-cart

You are invited || Flora Choi's Daeng'gi Kimchi Factory - Opening Reception Dec. 22

Flora Choi, Art in Odd Places 2011 artist, has an upcoming exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space. The opening reception will be on Dec. 22 from 5 to 7 pm.  Flora's work will be on display until January 15. Flora talked to us about her work:

Daeng'gi Kimchi Factory - Dec. 22

"Daeng'gi Kimchi Factory is a performance--installation piece where I will be taking chopped off daeng'gi braids ( a traditional Korean hairstyle that was once worn by adolescent girls) for cabbage, and make my own special version of kimchi. This piece confronts the male-dominated traditions of the past and investigates the state of women in Korea today. This piece will be accompanied by several live performances"

Performance Dates are as follows:
                                                  Dec 22- 5-7pm,
                                                  Dec. 30 3-4pm,
                                                  Jan 6, 3-4pm, and
                                                  Jan 13 3-4pm.




CUCHIFRITOS Gallery and Project Space is located at 120 Essex Street, inside Essex Street Market between Rivington and Delancey Street.

We are very excited for your exhibition, Flora! See you on Dec. 22 for the opening

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: SOCIAL MEDIA POSITION AT ART IN ODD PLACES 2012

There are currently open volunteer positions to join the Art in Odd Places team.

http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/WKB4TNH579h4/



SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR / INTERN


Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places' mission is to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.

We are seeking a dynamic and creative social media coordinator who can assist our PR strategy and further our branding within the NYC arts community. Ideal candidates must have a strong interest in arts and/or public art; have flexibility and the initiative to work both independently and as part of a team, have demonstrated familiarity across different social media platforms and possess excellent communication and writing skills. This opportunity will allow you the freedom to create/implement strategies and establish digital relationships to boost the organization's online presence. Check out our past festivals and press at www.artinoddplaces.org

AiOP is a grassroots organization with no office so candidate must be prepared to work from home and have computer/cell phone availability. Ideal candidate must commit until the end of the AiOP festival in mid October 2012.


HOW TO APPLY
To apply please send an email and your resume to artinoddplaces@gmail.com

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CALL FOR PROPOSAL | Un-Space Ground - Deadline: Nov. 27, 2011

 

College Arts Association Conference

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Ed Woodham of Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Deborah Oliver of Performance Exchange (LA) invite artists working with visual and performance strategies to propose projects for Un-Space Ground, a visual and performance event that is part of ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM, presented by ARTSpace at the 100th annual College Arts Association Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, February, 25, 2012. 

Projects selected will be part of Un-Space Ground:  The unvisited, unnamed, and uninhabited empty areas beneath the normally used parts of the urban landscape. We seek to program site-specific social and spatial interventions, performances, and new media that will activate spaces outside the Convention Center entrance and selected inside spaces.

The Un-Space Ground presentations will be coordinated with three panel sessions as part of the ARTSpace day long program  "ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM", which will explore themes of activism and intervention, the environment, eco-systems and sustainable practices. Plus the role of artists and designers as dynamic catalysts in social and civic life, and how they can “feed innovative ideas into the bloodstream of society” through strategies and processes that activate the public arena.

Photos of LA Convention Center can be found at http://caasitephotos.shutterfly.com/pictures/8

For application and full guidelines visit http://artinoddplaces.org/Unspace.php

Proposal Deadline: November 27, 2011 Midnight

Curators: Ed Woodham (AiOP) and Deborah Oliver (Performance Exchange)

YOU ARE INVITED | "Parts and Labor" opening November 4 at Abrons Art Center

Parts and Labor
November 4 - December 23, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4 | 6-8pm

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present Parts and Labor, an exhibition presenting the work of five New York City-based artists - Daniel Bejar, Cecilia Biagini, Juanli Carrión, Jonathan Durham, and Noah Loesberg. These artists allude to machinery, technology and architecture through a series of geometric and non-objective compositions, tracing back to the Suprematism and Constructivism movements by the Russian avant-garde at the time of the fall of the tsarist regime. Through the use of industrial materials and motifs the artists salvage the wreckage from a years-long global recession and explore a promise of utopia and utility.

The radical change following the October Revolution inspired a rational, social function for art, emphasizing the artist as engineer. This exhibition adopts those principles, referencing the calls for democracy and economic reform in the social uprisings across the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Formally engaging the Brutalist architecture of the Abrons gallery and adjacent amphitheater, the artists yield essence over representation and process over product.

In his Realistic Manifesto Naum Gabo saw the Revolution as the beginning of a renewal of human values. As demonstrations flourish in Manhattan's Wall Street and across the globe demanding economic reform, Parts and Labor looks to Constructivism and its examination of the fundamental properties of art and its place in the coming society.

Parts and Labor is curated by Adrian Geraldo Saldaña and part of the series Prized Vernacular, a platform for three exhibitions opening concurrently at the Abrons Arts Center that deconstruct a vernacular “everyday.” In light of the global economic recession, ordinary objects are presented as radicalized—prisms to a common unequally shared or realized. Reflecting cultural and economic difference, Prized Vernacular investigates this “new normal.”

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt St.)
New York, NY 10002
www.abronsartscenter.org