Ed Woodham of Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Deborah Oliver from Performance Exchange (LA) present Un-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.
It has been said that cities and urban spaces have been increasingly commodified, and that access to public space and public resources has been limited to an increasingly limited socio-economic group. Public-private partnerships and other forms of alternative governance have proven to be incapable of increasing participation, enabling more robust access, and after all enabling democracy on the ground. This panel ask if artists working in the city —and thus art as urban practice— have the capacity to ask critical questions, create ruptures in the status quo, ignite resilient forms of activism, and enable innovative forms of civic and social participation?
Korhan Basaran
Wednesday, October 5, 7pm
Norwood Club, 241 W 14th Street
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.
It has been said that cities and urban spaces have been increasingly commodified, and that access to public space and public resources has been limited to an increasingly limited socio-economic group. Public-private partnerships and other forms of alternative governance have proven to be incapable of increasing participation, enabling more robust access, and after all enabling democracy on the ground. This panel ask if artists working in the city —and thus art as urban practice— have the capacity to ask critical questions, create ruptures in the status quo, ignite resilient forms of activism, and enable innovative forms of civic and social participation?
Friday, September 30, 6-9pm
Theaterlab
137 West 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
New York, NY
featuring music by Egemen Sanli, the sensational/infamous drag troupe enSUBTITLES, and many of the festival performers
LINDA MARY MONTANO
Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL Key Note Address
”experience of the 7 energy centers of the body”
Saturday, October 1, 2pm
PARSONS New School of Design
KELLEN AUDITORIUM
66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Please dress in one color of the rainbow.
Space is very limited. First 90 people admitted.
Assisted by Edith Raw
This discussion, moderated by Jeff Stark, will center on artists and activists who take the NYC waterways as their creative point of departure, and who have crafted alternative ways to reclaim the water as viable public space. Panelists: Ludger Balen, Dylan Gauthier, Constance Hockaday, Mary Mattingly and Tim Thyzel. Organized by Juliana Driever.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union St, Brooklyn
Free / Open to the Public
Part of Urban Design Week presented by the Institute for Urban Design.
