var tumblr_api_read = {"tumblelog":{"title":"Art in Odd Places","description":"","name":"aiop","timezone":"US\/Eastern","cname":false,"feeds":[]},"posts-start":0,"posts-total":"53","posts-type":false,"posts":[{"id":"11670743629","url":"http:\/\/aiop.tumblr.com\/post\/11670743629","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/aiop.tumblr.com\/post\/11670743629\/art-in-odd-places-nyc-and-performance-exchange-la","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-10-19 23:12:00 GMT","date":"Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:12:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1319065920,"format":"html","reblog-key":"09Zv3NBZ","slug":"art-in-odd-places-nyc-and-performance-exchange-la","regular-title":"Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Performance Exchange (LA) present Un-Space Ground at CAA in Los Angeles: February 25, 2012","regular-body":"<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Ed Woodham of Art in Odd Places\u00a0<\/em>(<em>NYC)\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Deborah Oliver from Performance Exchange (LA)\u00a0<\/em>present<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Un-Space Ground:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u00a0The unvisited, unnamed, and uninhabited empty areas beneath the normally-used parts of the urban landscape.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>This public event sponsored by\u00a0the College Arts Association Conference\u00a0ARTSpace\u2019s day long program, &#8216;Art in the Public Realm&#8217; on Saturday, February 25, 2012 will feature artists working with performance and visual strategies to activate the\u00a0vacant spaces in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Curators Woodham and Oliver\u00a0aim to broaden the public\u2019s outlook on the vast spaces that go unnoticed and ignored in the urban environment.<\/span><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><br\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>"},{"id":"11334187125","url":"http:\/\/aiop.tumblr.com\/post\/11334187125","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/aiop.tumblr.com\/post\/11334187125\/art-in-odd-places-2011-ritual-its-a-wrap","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-10-11 23:13:00 GMT","date":"Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:13:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1318374780,"format":"html","reblog-key":"qNAu95yQ","slug":"art-in-odd-places-2011-ritual-its-a-wrap","regular-title":"Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL \/ It's A Wrap","regular-body":"<p><span>Wow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What a journey!<br\/>What have we unleashed?<br\/>Seems since we began our ritual of AiOP 2011, the times have changed. There&#8217;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.<br\/><\/span><span>What&#8217;s next?\u00a0<\/span><span><br\/>I am very happy to see people engaged and outraged in public spaces. Being in the public realm, you can feel it &#8216;in the air&#8217;- something is happening.\u00a0Hopefully this is only the beginning of a much needed shift in consciousness.\u00a0<br\/><\/span><span>Please accept my sincerest gratitude and admiration for the tremendous amount of effort that everyone has given to this project:\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0staff, artists, collaborating organizations, participants, documentary team, friends, family, lovers, donors and sponsors, passersby, pedestrians, festival goers, activists<\/span><span>\u00a0- all instigators of positive change.\u00a0<\/span><span>We are making a difference in the world through our actions and I thank you for working together to create rituals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>- Ed Woodham, Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><br\/><\/span><\/p>"}]};