THIS WEEKEND AT ART IN ODD PLACES 2010: CHANCE!

This weekend at Art in Odd Places 2010: CHANCE 

 

Respond to a letter addressed To A Young Poet left behind by Sheryl Oring on each Avenue along 14th Street (Friday – Sunday, 10am), watch as the BroLab Collective manually transports water for 24 hours straight from the Hudson to the East River (from Friday, 3pm to Saturday, 3pm), locate Linda Hesh’s suggestive doorknob hangers scattered randomly along 14th Street (daily), try your luck with Maya Suess, the Lady of Luck herself, for one last time! (Saturday, 12-2pm) Get anything you wish notarized at Carrie Dashow’s Yesiree Notary Booth in Union Square (Saturday, 12-3pm), hustle and argue with Jessica Ann Peavy as she tries to convince you of her point of view (Sunday, 4-7pm), discover the sounds of the rivers that cap our city with the help of Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Thomas Dexter (Friday – Sunday, 12-1pm), become the subject of Simonetta Moro’s window drawing as she tracks pedestrian movement in a storefront (Saturday – Sunday, 12-4pm), experience historic sounds of the city at Pratt Manhattan culled by Christopher Dameron and Annika Newell from sound archives (daily), grab a publication of poetry based on directions given by cab drivers to Dannielle Tegeder (daily), walk on over and say hello when members of Flux Factory wave at you from across the street (daily), and witness a spectacle as Irvin Morazan tries to hail a taxi in his outrageous Mayan headdress and Cheez Doodle outfit (Friday, 5-6:30pm).

Views of Sheryl Oring's Letters to a Young Poet at various locations along 14th Street. See website for details  

MAKE AN IMPRINT OF THE CITY

LIENE BOSQUE and NICOLE SEISLER

City Souvenirs

Performance begins at the NE corner of 14th Street and Fourth Avenue (by the Food Emporium)

Friday, October 8 (11am – 3pm): Heading East; Saturday, October 9 (11am – 3pm): Heading West; Sunday, October 10 (11am – 3pm): Heading West

Dressed in “official” uniforms, the duo will walk along 14th St with a cart that holds blocks of wet clay. This clay will be used to make direct impressions of often-unnoticed details of the spaces they traverse in their walk. The public is invited to participate in the creation of objects that will serve as a record of a specific moment in time of New York City’s history.

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AN EVENING WITH THE WOOSTER COLLECTIVE

WOOSTER COLLECTIVE

A talk by Marc and Sara Schiller

Friday, October 8 (7 – 9pm): Pratt Manhattan auditorium, 144 W 14th St, 2nd Fl.

With Street Art works often only lasting minutes, viewing them digitally has been one main way to understand the movement. Using hundreds of examples of site specific, global work, the Wooster Collective will take you through what makes Street Art so compelling, why the artists are motivated to make illegal art, and how the movement has transformed over the past decade.

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TALK TO UNION SQUARE BY TXT MSSG

PAUL NOTZOLD
TXTual Healing

Friday, October 8 (8 – 10pm): 52 E 14th Street at Broadway (former Virgin Megastore)

TXTual Healing is an interactive public projection that encourages community building and idea sharing through performance. Notzold invites passersby to respond to a predetermined subject via text messaging, and screens the resulting dialogue onto urban structures.  In so doing, he creates an experience of happenstance and curiosity for bystanders and participants alike.

 

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SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEO SCREENING

Something

Video screening curated by Marco Antonini

Saturday, October 9 (7 – 9pm): Pratt Manhattan auditorium, 144 W 14th Street

 

Featuring: Ivan Argote, Tobias Collier, Simon Faithfull, Wojciech Gilewicz, Leopold Kessler, Jules Marquis, Chris Moukarbel, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Colin Snapp, and Virginie Yassef.

 

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DESIGN AN ICON FOR 14TH STREET

GREEN MAP SYSTEM

Spotting Signs of Progress - Green Map Icons, Sustainability and YOU!

Saturday, October 10 (1-4pm): 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, lobby

Join Green Map System, a non-profit organization that empowers international communities worldwide to chart their progress toward an environmentally sustainable future, at the 14th Street Y on 10/10/10 to share findings from their ten-day scavenger hunt along 14th Street. Then, help design new Green Map Icons as part of the Global Work Party for Climate Solutions.

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Please note: All Elastic City walks are FULL. Please check www.elastic-city.com to sign up for future walks.

 

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All events FREE and open to the public. In case of rain, please refer to the website for schedule changes: www.artinoddplaces.org

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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.

Credit: 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.

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. 

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. 

Photo courtesy of Carrie Dashow

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

Art in Odd Places Festival Opening pictures!!!

Click the link to see pictures from our opening event

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.

Aiop: Tell us about your group

(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?

GMS: From our neighbors at the Laundromat Project

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.

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?


GMS: There are ways to make more sustainable choices all around us. Take a chance to become part of the solution, today & every day. Find out more at http://OpenGreenMap.org/nyc

Aiop:What should people expect from your project during the festival?

GMS: Spot our markers, and learn about the green attributes of each spot. Then, rate the markers' design! Give us your ideas for new climate-change related icons at our 10/10/10 Global Work Party: Green Map Icon Design Studio @ 14th Street Y (1-4pm)!

Aiop: What's your lucky number?
 

GMS: 101010

Aiop: 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?

GMS: Green Map 'lives" in the East Village – we sometimes say 'on a small island nation halfway between the US and Europe' or in the Hudson River Valley Bioregion, North Western Hemisphere