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| Credit: Argenis Apolinario |
A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life. Art in Odd Places aims 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.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
More Art in Odd Places Festival Opening Photos
Click the photo to see the photo gallery from the opening event last Friday. Photo credit goes to Argenis Apolinario.
Carrie Dashow, Art in Odd Places 2010: CHANCE artist, will give you external validation.
They say promises are meant to broken. During the Art in Odd Places Festival, you might want to rethink that remark because artist Carrie Dashow will hold you liable, by way of notary. Who is Carrie Dashow and why should you rethink promises you previously made? Well, here are the things you need to know about her:
Hi,
I live in Brooklyn, I like odd numbers, threes and fives and not fours.
My favorite spots along 14th street are the ones with closing stores.
I love art in odd places,
I am a Public Notary, this means I am an official witness. My specialties are Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments.
I’m especially excited that through the ages, a covenant is meant to be spoken aloud, breaking the space between the speaker inside to out.
Hence it is a promise from one person not only to themselves but to outside themselves, a higher power, the world, etc.. legally this verbalization covers Oaths and somewhat affirmations. I cannot bind one to another, just that a person says it and that they with all intention, as far as I know, mean it. Within this country it is illegal to notarize oneself, everyone must go to another person for their validation. Yesiree attempts to reinstate your own memory that this isn’t so true, if you believe it, I’ll sign it.
In this piece “Yesiree the Public Notary and the Lottery of Good Oaths”, you will select an historical oaths and make it your own, to be orated and officiated. As I am only a signer of sure intentions, please prepare to believe what you say, keep your uncertainty to yourself and carry valid identification.
Sign, Sealed, Delivered! Consider yourself informed with Carrie's work. Of course, you have to catch her during the festival to fully understand her work. Get more information about Carrie by visiting her sites:
http://yesireepublicnotary.wordpress.com/
Performance location might subject to change, so always check the Art in Odd Places website and our Twitter (@ArtinOddPlaces to keep you updated.
So are you ready to make that promise? Don't forget to bring a valid form of identification and make your promises count during the festival (which is by the way, just around the corner)
Also, did you get the invitation for our Festival Opening? The invitation can be found here
Hi,
I live in Brooklyn, I like odd numbers, threes and fives and not fours.
My favorite spots along 14th street are the ones with closing stores.
I love art in odd places,
I am a Public Notary, this means I am an official witness. My specialties are Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments.
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| Photo courtesy of Carrie Dashow |
I’m especially excited that through the ages, a covenant is meant to be spoken aloud, breaking the space between the speaker inside to out.
Hence it is a promise from one person not only to themselves but to outside themselves, a higher power, the world, etc.. legally this verbalization covers Oaths and somewhat affirmations. I cannot bind one to another, just that a person says it and that they with all intention, as far as I know, mean it. Within this country it is illegal to notarize oneself, everyone must go to another person for their validation. Yesiree attempts to reinstate your own memory that this isn’t so true, if you believe it, I’ll sign it.
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| Photo courtesy of Carrie Dashow |
In this piece “Yesiree the Public Notary and the Lottery of Good Oaths”, you will select an historical oaths and make it your own, to be orated and officiated. As I am only a signer of sure intentions, please prepare to believe what you say, keep your uncertainty to yourself and carry valid identification.
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| Photo courtesy of Carrie Dashow |
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| Photo courtesy of Carrie Dashow |
Sign, Sealed, Delivered! Consider yourself informed with Carrie's work. Of course, you have to catch her during the festival to fully understand her work. Get more information about Carrie by visiting her sites:
http://yesireepublicnotary.wordpress.com/
Performance location might subject to change, so always check the Art in Odd Places website and our Twitter (@ArtinOddPlaces to keep you updated.
So are you ready to make that promise? Don't forget to bring a valid form of identification and make your promises count during the festival (which is by the way, just around the corner)
Also, did you get the invitation for our Festival Opening? The invitation can be found here
Monday, October 4, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Taking a CHANCE for sustainability: Green Map System
The Art in Odd Places festival has started! Its opening event last Friday was jam packed as our curators and artists kick off the beginning of a 10 day festival. Check back with us again to see pictures from the event.
For now let's get to know Green Map System, a non profit group empowering people towards a sustainable future. Their work recognizes "green living" sites along 14th street by using a specially prepared marker system. They will help us paint a "greener" picture of 14th street during the festival. Markers will all over the 14th street, but don't forget to join them on 10/10/10 @ the 14th street Y to see their findings and help create new icons markers.
For now let's get to know Green Map System, a non profit group empowering people towards a sustainable future. Their work recognizes "green living" sites along 14th street by using a specially prepared marker system. They will help us paint a "greener" picture of 14th street during the festival. Markers will all over the 14th street, but don't forget to join them on 10/10/10 @ the 14th street Y to see their findings and help create new icons markers.
Aiop: Tell us about your group
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| (photo courtesy of Wendy Brawer) |
GMS: Green Map System is the eco-cultural nonprofit behind a worldwide sustainability mapping movement. In over 700 cities in 55 countries, visual representations of the community's progress toward sustainability are being created using collaboratively designed universal Green Map® Icons and adaptable and interactive mapmaking resources. Each Green Map highlights local culture, nature, social and green living resources to help people get involved and make their home place a better, greener and healthier place to live. NYC's Green Map is the original edition that sparked the global movement – find out more at GreenMap.org.
Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?
Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
GMS: Organizing our contribution to Art in Odd Places took place collaboratively. QueensNY Green Mapmaker, Carlos Martinez (formerly a staff member at our global office) is a photographer and has taken part in the Laundromat Project. He started generating ideas right away, and said "This is the perfect venue to test green site markers that will allow urban explorers to identify green sites in the real world". I agreed - let's take a chance and reach a new audience!Then Boram Park, our intern from South Korea, scouted 14th Street – there were lots of green sites we had not mapped before! She took photos of each and then, together with Té Baybute, our designer, we planned a way to involve our global network and achieve something we had discussed many times – a test of concept for a marker system that would help people on the street connect with surprisingly green sites and spaces, without the need for our mobile website, iPhone app or even a printed Green Map.
Green Mapmakers from 9 countries are currently designing markers for the 20+ sites we will highlight, from 1st Ave to the Hudson River. We hope festival-goers – and everyone else - will explore the street and find each marker then click http://GreenMap.org/testmark and vote for their favorite design. This mobile website will be available starting 10/1/10. Find background info now at http://GreenMap.org/aiop
And thanks to Petrushka Bazin and Yaelle Amir, we will hold a culminating event on the last day of Art in Odd Places at the 14th Street Y. It's 10/10/10, which is 350.org's Global Work Party, so we are hosting an community climate icon design studio from 1-4 pm that day.
We hope everyone interested in sustainability and a healthier future for all will contribute a few powerful concepts and sketches that extend our set of award- winning Green Map Icons. As seen at http://GreenMap.org/icons, they are used on hundreds of locally created Green Maps, so having fresh input regarding symbols for climate impacts and adaptation will be terrific! So, come to AIOP, and our 10/10/10
event and find out more, share ideas, vote on the green site marker designs, enjoy refreshments donated by Angelica Kitchen and others, and take home a Green Map.
Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
GMS: Pretty good! we have a blog up at http://GreenMap.org/aiop - it's linked to the marker design polling site which will go live on 10/1/10. It's mirrored at http://facebook.com/greenmap - Tweets @greenmap to come!
And as mentioned, we have Green Mapmakers taking part by designing green site markers, including Andre Guilherme, Brazil - Cindy Kohtala & Kavita Gonsalves, Finland - Gautam Naido, India - Elanto Wijoyono, Indonesia - Ana Mestre, Portugal - Philip Todres, South Africa - Boram Park, South Korea - Yelu & Jen Pei Wang, Taiwan - Té Baybute, Massachusetts - Rick Loduha & Barbara Hardy, Michigan - Jenna Giambalvo, New Jersey and Wendy Brawer, New York.
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| Green Map System Team (photo courtesy of Wendy Brawer) |
Aiop:What's your favorite spot on 14th street?
GMS: There are many – and because of the special Green Map markers we are creating, these
spots will also be apparent to festival-goers.
Aiop: Do you have a hidden talent you would like to share?
GMS: We know how to 'think global & map local' !
Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival?
Aiop:What should people expect from your project during the festival?
Aiop: What's your lucky number?
GMS: 101010Aiop: Write a fortune that would appear in a fortune cookie
GMS:Find new directions to a sustainable future with Green Map!
Aiop: What's the strangest encounter that you've had as pedestrian living in New York
GMS:Loving the city as a Green Mapmaker means being alert for new approaches to a climate-savvy socially just economy, wildlife appreciation and special places – so whether we are on foot, on a bike or getting around another way, we are constantly experiencing fresh perspectives... it's not really so strange, but the city is full of
surprising jewels to cherish!
Aiop: What do you hope to bring to the festival?
GMS: The chance that festival-goers will gain a sense of sustainability
Aiop: Where is Green Map System located?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
AiOP 2010 artists, Nicole Seisler and Liene Bosque will try to make a good impression during the festival
Memento is latin for "remember". It is also known, less formally, as "keepsakes" or "souvenirs": something to invoke a memory. It is not surprising the word "memento" is very similar with the word "moment": both denotes a specific frame of time. For Nicole Seisler and Liene Bosque, Art in Odd Places 2010 artists, capturing a specific tangible "moment", often of things seldom noticed, is the goal. With wet clay on their arms, both artists will take a chance to make art by creating great impressions of 14th street. Their impressions of "mementos of moments" (mOmento, anyone?) will definitely give new meaning to the term "first impressions last",
Let's take a moment and get to know them.
Aiop: Tell us about you
N&L: We met in a class called ‘Walking the City’ in our first semester in Graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). It became quite clear that our interests overlap in many ways and we started working together in December 2009. Being new to Chicago (Liene is from Brazil and Nicole moved here from Boston), working together was a way for us to explore the city and embrace our desires to make work on the streets of Chicago.
Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?
N&L: Liene heard about the festival from the Nancy Gildart, Director of Career Services at SAIC.
Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
N&L: Art in Odd Places (an excellent name, by the way) offers us a chance to explore NYC and make art outside of the realm of galleries and traditional ‘art’ spaces. Our work involves the mapping of cities and we are also excited about engaging audiences that might not traditionally seek out an ‘art experience.’
Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
N&L: We have been spending a lot of time in the welding shop lately. The cart we previously made for this project is large, heavy, and welded together in one piece. In order to make our project mobile, we are currently building a new modular cart that will fit into a suitcase. We are also figuring out how to make the clay component of this project mobile. If anyone reading this works in an NYC ceramics facility, we could use your help, so please get in touch with us! A lot of preparation has gone into this project, including scoping out 14th street earlier this summer. AiOP will be the first time that we take City Souvenirs to New York.
Aiop: What's your favorite spot on 14th street?
N&L: There are a lot of intriguing things about the mixed use of 14th Street but we keep coming back to how quirky that little Russian souvenir store is.
Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival?
N&L: If you see us passing by with our cart, please stop for a moment to talk with us and create a clay impression of 14th Street!
Participation is encouraged, so prepare to get your hands dirty and create lasting souvenirs. You can catch them starting October 8 starting 11 am heading East. Visit the www.artinoddplaces.org for more any updates.
Let's take a moment and get to know them.
Aiop: Tell us about you
N&L: We met in a class called ‘Walking the City’ in our first semester in Graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). It became quite clear that our interests overlap in many ways and we started working together in December 2009. Being new to Chicago (Liene is from Brazil and Nicole moved here from Boston), working together was a way for us to explore the city and embrace our desires to make work on the streets of Chicago.
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| Photo courtesy of Nicole and Liene |
Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?
N&L: Liene heard about the festival from the Nancy Gildart, Director of Career Services at SAIC.
Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
N&L: Art in Odd Places (an excellent name, by the way) offers us a chance to explore NYC and make art outside of the realm of galleries and traditional ‘art’ spaces. Our work involves the mapping of cities and we are also excited about engaging audiences that might not traditionally seek out an ‘art experience.’
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| Photo courtesy of Nicole and Liene |
Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
N&L: We have been spending a lot of time in the welding shop lately. The cart we previously made for this project is large, heavy, and welded together in one piece. In order to make our project mobile, we are currently building a new modular cart that will fit into a suitcase. We are also figuring out how to make the clay component of this project mobile. If anyone reading this works in an NYC ceramics facility, we could use your help, so please get in touch with us! A lot of preparation has gone into this project, including scoping out 14th street earlier this summer. AiOP will be the first time that we take City Souvenirs to New York.
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| Photo courtesy of Nicole and Liene |
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| Photo courtesy of Nicole and Liene |
Aiop: What's your favorite spot on 14th street?
N&L: There are a lot of intriguing things about the mixed use of 14th Street but we keep coming back to how quirky that little Russian souvenir store is.
Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival?
N&L: If you see us passing by with our cart, please stop for a moment to talk with us and create a clay impression of 14th Street!
Participation is encouraged, so prepare to get your hands dirty and create lasting souvenirs. You can catch them starting October 8 starting 11 am heading East. Visit the www.artinoddplaces.org for more any updates.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Andrew Tosiello's matchbook tickets can go up and down. Buy them during the Art in Odd Places Festival and win big
Can you believe the Art in Odd Places Festival is just a few days away? We hope to see you during the Opening Event @ Theater Lab this Friday. If you haven't RSVPd, now is your chance to do it:
http://tinyurl.com/aiop-opening
To keep the excitement going, we are featuring another artist appearing on 14th street come October. On a previous entry, we mentioned about "bartering" through the works of Heather Hart. This time, 2010 AiOP artists Andrew Tosiello, is encouraging everyone to GAMBLE. With his project called "The Numbers Racket", Andrew will be selling match books tickets at various businesses on 14th Street. What is fascinating about this project is the method of determining the winning number: a formula from the stock prices report. Stock Prices?? Where do you even begin to wrap your head around the idea? You now ask what does the winner get? Well, I encourage you to check the Art in Odd Places website, take a chance and play the game. Andrew's work is definitely not your grade school raffle drawing.
Aiop: Tell us about you
AT: I live in work in San Francisco, CA. My work employs the images, history and tactics of the Italian-American Mafia to consider the work of art. I also work in the trucking industry.
Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?
AT: Curator Petrushka Bazin and I both attended the California College of the Arts and she had participated in an earlier version of my numbers racket project.
Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
AT: The location and theme of the festival seemed tailor-made for this project.
Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
AT: I'm basically all set for the project. Now I just need to get to New York.
Aiop: What's your favorite spot on 14th street?
AT: I can't really recall any places on 14th Street from previous visits, but I'm sure I'll find a favorite during the festival.
Aiop: Do you have a hidden talent you would like to share?
AT: No.
Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival?
AT: Players Win and Winners Play.
Just as he said, Winners are players! Check the website and the Art in Odd Places twitter feed (@ArtinOddPlaces) to find his performance dates and location.
http://tinyurl.com/aiop-opening
To keep the excitement going, we are featuring another artist appearing on 14th street come October. On a previous entry, we mentioned about "bartering" through the works of Heather Hart. This time, 2010 AiOP artists Andrew Tosiello, is encouraging everyone to GAMBLE. With his project called "The Numbers Racket", Andrew will be selling match books tickets at various businesses on 14th Street. What is fascinating about this project is the method of determining the winning number: a formula from the stock prices report. Stock Prices?? Where do you even begin to wrap your head around the idea? You now ask what does the winner get? Well, I encourage you to check the Art in Odd Places website, take a chance and play the game. Andrew's work is definitely not your grade school raffle drawing.
Andrew Tosiello
Aiop: Tell us about you
AT: I live in work in San Francisco, CA. My work employs the images, history and tactics of the Italian-American Mafia to consider the work of art. I also work in the trucking industry.
Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?
AT: Curator Petrushka Bazin and I both attended the California College of the Arts and she had participated in an earlier version of my numbers racket project.
Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
AT: The location and theme of the festival seemed tailor-made for this project.
Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
AT: I'm basically all set for the project. Now I just need to get to New York.
Aiop: What's your favorite spot on 14th street?
AT: I can't really recall any places on 14th Street from previous visits, but I'm sure I'll find a favorite during the festival.
Aiop: Do you have a hidden talent you would like to share?
AT: No.
Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival?
AT: Players Win and Winners Play.
Just as he said, Winners are players! Check the website and the Art in Odd Places twitter feed (@ArtinOddPlaces) to find his performance dates and location.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Mike Estabrook, AiOP 2010 artist, has a teddy bear with a chip on its shoulder
Here is something you don't see teddy bears doing: REBELLING. Yes, it appears that there is a teddy bear on the loose with an agenda coming out during the festival. Mike's Estabrook's piece called ""The Teddy Bear Market Uprising, A Revolution Squared" is a participatory project using people's responses to create his work. This is definitely one interesting piece because it is part art, part political and part statistical. Sounds complicated but it should be an exciting project to be part of.
How does an angry teddy bear get into the mix of things? Mike took the time and described his project further.
On Sept. 22nd, I, along with the help of two fellow artists, Mona Kamal (surveyer), and Vandana Jain(photographer) headed out into the wilderness of Union Square to survey a random assortment of people about their thoughts on the Teddy Bear Market Uprising. Mona and I presented a survey depicting the Teddy Bear (below) and asked them two questions: 1. "what is your social class (upper, upper middle, middle, working, lower)?", and 2. "In a fictitious art battle would you fight for or against the Teddy Bear Market Uprising?" (The Teddy Bear is, of course, prominently marked with the Hammer and Cycle, and was defined as "the struggle for socialist utopia"
All classes were represented, and we had a wide range of responses ranging from a resounding "YES", to a "Die! Socialist Scum!"
good times were had by all...
My end goal for all this is to make a drawing depicting fantasy soldiers made of 5 colors (reflecting the 5 social class categories in the survey), in which the pro-teddy factions will be placed on the left, and the anti-teddys will be on the right. This will be seen at the opening event for Art In Odd Places at Theater Lab on Oct. 1.
In addition to showing the drawing at this event, I will be rolling percentile dice to determine people's social class for the event (the dice rolls will reflect the percentage distribution of social classes in the USA). Those lucky enough to roll a 100 will be upper class, and will get a t-shirt of Teddy Bear Market Uprising!
Thanks, Mike! We look forward seeing the final product.
You can see Mike and the Teddy Bear Uprising project in action during the Opening Festival this coming Friday. The event invitation can be found here. RSVP now.
How does an angry teddy bear get into the mix of things? Mike took the time and described his project further.
On Sept. 22nd, I, along with the help of two fellow artists, Mona Kamal (surveyer), and Vandana Jain(photographer) headed out into the wilderness of Union Square to survey a random assortment of people about their thoughts on the Teddy Bear Market Uprising. Mona and I presented a survey depicting the Teddy Bear (below) and asked them two questions: 1. "what is your social class (upper, upper middle, middle, working, lower)?", and 2. "In a fictitious art battle would you fight for or against the Teddy Bear Market Uprising?" (The Teddy Bear is, of course, prominently marked with the Hammer and Cycle, and was defined as "the struggle for socialist utopia"
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
All classes were represented, and we had a wide range of responses ranging from a resounding "YES", to a "Die! Socialist Scum!"
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
good times were had by all...
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
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| Photo courtesy of Mike Estabrook |
My end goal for all this is to make a drawing depicting fantasy soldiers made of 5 colors (reflecting the 5 social class categories in the survey), in which the pro-teddy factions will be placed on the left, and the anti-teddys will be on the right. This will be seen at the opening event for Art In Odd Places at Theater Lab on Oct. 1.
In addition to showing the drawing at this event, I will be rolling percentile dice to determine people's social class for the event (the dice rolls will reflect the percentage distribution of social classes in the USA). Those lucky enough to roll a 100 will be upper class, and will get a t-shirt of Teddy Bear Market Uprising!
Thanks, Mike! We look forward seeing the final product.
You can see Mike and the Teddy Bear Uprising project in action during the Opening Festival this coming Friday. The event invitation can be found here. RSVP now.
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