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Cai Guo-Qiang @ the Guggenheim

hey everyone-
i think this would be a good show to take our students to- we were planning on going to a museum this week. this artist really extends what we can call installation art, while making really beautiful things. it’s pretty powerful because his work is amazingly informed.
http://guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai_overview.html

i’m also taking my other class to ICP tomorrow- to the archive fever show- and having been to that already with a college class, i’m not confident that they will enjoy it, but i’ll let everyone know about that.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3639335/

 

posted by Sophie Lvoff

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Reality from the Barrio

You all should check out this project: Reality from the Barrio, “the photography and prose of native Santa Fe youth – from censorship to survival.” I think it’s pretty well designed and there’s a good amount of information about its history, which is all quite interesting. Its layout and clarity may certainly be helpful with regards to our own project. And the story is really enjoyable too.

There was another community outreach project that I came across almost in tandem – Al Rowwad: Palestinian Children’s Theater Center, “an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children in Aida Camp trying to provide a “safe” and healthy environment to help children creativity and discharge of stress in the war conditions they are forced to live in.” While the site could look much better, I think it’s worth viewing as an example of a more elaborate use of the web as a creative space.

 

Posted by Alicia M Baird

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Community Programs Education

PhotoStory

PhotoStoryProject

Hey Guys-
Photo Story is a project that blends story telling and photography, in an attempt to ‘personalize our common human experience.’
Its pretty self-explanatory, and worth checking out. Also an example of web-organization of a project somewhat similar to ours (photos, text, stories, etc).

Posted by Natalie R Olczak

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Education

Alfredo Jaar

Hello all,

In our discussion in class last week about the complex relationship between social action and social embarrassment, I was reminded of Alfredo Jaar, an artist that discussed this extensively during his talk to one of my classes last semester. Jaar is actually an architect, but also a filmmaker and photographer (he doesn’t identify with one medium). One aspect of his work is something he calls “public interventions,” which are projects that are initiated by and have heavy involvement from various communities. One which he titled “Lights in the City,” involved the homeless population of Montreal in raising awareness of their situation through a different form of visual representation (they did not want to be photographed, so he placed a button in each shelter that would light up a central dome in the city each time it was pressed). He also did a participatory photography project of sorts (though it is unfortunately not mentioned on his Web site) in which he gave 1,000 disposable cameras to the citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, asked them to fill the cameras and to choose their favorite photo, and displayed them in the city’s new museum (this was a museum that the citizens were opposed to for various reasons, and it was a way to allow them to conquer the space and to speak out about the conditions in their community). Though not always specific to photography, his work provides some interesting examples of some of the themes we’ve discussed.

His Web site: http://www.alfredojaar.net

Another site containing photo galleries of pictures taken by the homeless:

http://www.homelesscamera.com/index.html

Posted by Nicolle Bennett