Deadline Sunday, April 15, 2012 midnight EST
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) invites citizens from all walks of life and from anywhere in this world to propose projects for its eighth installment in New York City. Taking place from October 5–15, 2012, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, AiOP 2012: MODEL will proclaim 14th Street as the largest and longest runway in the world. MODEL intends to take pedestrians off their predictable paths and move them into a new awareness of their everyday landscape. Citizens are encouraged to shape the unnoticed planes of the 14th Street geography, imagining the possibilities of what could be.
We are all citizens of the MODEL runway. We live, work, walk, occupy, reminisce, two-step, eat, drink, dance, smell, trip, feel, and dream 14th Street from east to west. 14th Street is our public showroom, free laboratory, open vitrine, inclusive procession, movement mall, evolving plaza, and liberated space. No door will separate us.
For full guidelines and application click here
Deadline Sunday, April 15, 2012 midnight EST
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) invites citizens from all walks of life and from anywhere in this world to propose projects for its eighth installment in New York City. Taking place from October 5–15, 2012, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, AiOP 2012: MODEL will proclaim 14th Street as the largest and longest runway in the world. MODEL intends to take pedestrians off their predictable paths and move them into a new awareness of their everyday landscape. Citizens are encouraged to shape the unnoticed planes of the 14th Street geography, imagining the possibilities of what could be.
We are all citizens of the MODEL runway. We live, work, walk, occupy, reminisce, two-step, eat, drink, dance, smell, trip, feel, and dream 14th Street from east to west. 14th Street is our public showroom, free laboratory, open vitrine, inclusive procession, movement mall, evolving plaza, and liberated space. No door will separate us.
For full guidelines and application click here
Ed Woodham of Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Deborah Oliver from Performance Exchange (LA) presentUn-Space Ground: The unvisited, unnamed, and uninhabited empty areas beneath the normally-used parts of the urban landscape.
This public event sponsored by the College Arts Association Conference ARTSpace’s day long program, ‘Art in the Public Realm’ on Saturday, February 25, 2012 will feature artists working with performance and visual strategies to activate the vacant spaces in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Curators Woodham and Oliver aim to broaden the public’s outlook on the vast spaces that go unnoticed and ignored in the urban environment.
Wow.
What a journey!
What have we unleashed?
Seems since we began our ritual of AiOP 2011, the times have changed. There’s a current heightened awareness of public space and actions in public spaces. During the festival we witnessed quite a few from the Slut March, Skateboarder Critical Mass, to the ever powerful Occupy Wall Street.
What’s next?
I am very happy to see people engaged and outraged in public spaces. Being in the public realm, you can feel it ‘in the air’- something is happening. Hopefully this is only the beginning of a much needed shift in consciousness.
Please accept my sincerest gratitude and admiration for the tremendous amount of effort that everyone has given to this project: staff, artists, collaborating organizations, participants, documentary team, friends, family, lovers, donors and sponsors, passersby, pedestrians, festival goers, activists - all instigators of positive change. We are making a difference in the world through our actions and I thank you for working together to create rituals.
- Ed Woodham, Director
Fashion. Prototype. Pose. Imitate. Plan. System.
October 5-15
Performance and visual art in public spaces along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River
New York City
Public Space Panel: Saturday, October 8, 2pm.
(Parsons New School for Design, 65 W 11th Street, 5th Floor, Wollman Hall). Moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic with panelists Tania Duvergne, Sarah Reisman, Leon Reid IV, and Nick Riggle.
Tuesday, October 4, 6pm. (Pratt Manhattan Gallery 144 W 14th St, 2nd Floor). Modered by Gabriel Cwilich with panelists Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Bindi Cole,May Joseph and Setha Low.
