Art in Odd Places: Archive

Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Performance Exchange...

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...

Oct 19th

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL / It's A Wrap

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...

Oct 11th

Art in Odd Places 2012: MODEL

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

Oct 6th

PSEUDO-PUBLIC SPACE

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...

Oct 5th

RITUAL IN PUBLIC SPACE, Panel

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.

Oct 2nd

PERFORMANCE

Korhan Basaran Wednesday, October 5, 7pm Norwood Club, 241 W 14th Street

Oct 2nd

PSEUDO-PUBLIC SPACE

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...

Oct 2nd

Opening Reception for Art In Odd Places Festival...

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

Sep 21st

GLANDATHON WORKSHOP

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

Sep 21st

Art in Odd Places Presents: Rise and Fall:...

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 –...

Sep 7th

LINDA MARY MONTANO

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL Key Note Address GLANDATHON WORKSHOP ”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 Assisted by Edith Raw

Sep 7th

LINDA MARY MONTANO

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL Key Note Address GLANDATHON WORKSHOP ”experience of the 7 energy centers of the body” Saturday, October 1, 2pm PARSONS New School of Design KELLEN AUDITORIUM 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC MONTANO will use this time interactively to co-collaborate with the audience in a way that is instructive/informative/collaborative and celebratory. We all agree that to be...

Aug 10th

2011 Ritual Artists:

Sherry Aliberti, Scott Andresen, Rob Andrews, Nobutaka Aozaki, Julia Barbee, Caitlin Berrigan & Anya Liftig, Tom Bogaert, Michael Borowski, Javier Bosques, Brodigy, Corrine Cappelletti, Seth Caplan, Patricia Cazorla, Joanna Chak, Flora Choi, Missa Coffman, Concerned New Yorkers, Andrea Cote & Michael Drisgall, Elizabeth Demaray, Konstantin Dimopoulos, Dahlia Elsayed, Margarita Garcia,...

Aug 10th

AiOP 2011: RITUAL kicks off with Andrew...

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Jun 18th

AiOP 2011: RITUAL artists:

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Jun 11th

Edith Raw's 'White Trash' at The Festival of Ideas...

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May 8th

AiOP Book of 2009 Festival Now Available

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May 8th

AiOP at StreetFest on Saturday, May 7, 11am-7pm

Apr 10th

Join Us!

Click here for more information Click here for video about the Festival AiOP is pleased to be part of this major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas that will shape it. Our booth will be on Rivington Street at the corner of Chrystie...

Apr 10th

AiOP and The New School

Mar 30th

Grid Scenes: Friday, April 1, 5-8pm

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Mar 30th

April 1 on 14th Street

Mar 20th

Urban Festival - Friday, April 1, 5-7pm on 14th...

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Jan 11th

Lucia Warck-Meister Talks @ Public Art in Buenos...

Jan 11th

2010 Festival Is A Wrap!

Thanks to everyone who made AiOP 2010: CHANCE an enormous success. Hats off to the guest curators and the AiOP team, designers, interns, volunteers, donors, sponsors, collaborators, hosts, friends, businesses and the community along 14th Street, press folks and bloggers, viewers with program guide in hand and passersby, and especially all of the artists who presented projects exploring public...

Oct 12th

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Make clay impressions of 14th Street with Liene...

Join Liene Bosque and Nicole Seisler as they make their impressions of NYC’s 14th Street in clay. They will be heading out at 11AM from Union Square to the WEST side of 14th Street. Catch them on their way - it’s an experience not to be missed! If you want to catch them when they start out - head over to the NE corner of 14th St and 4th Ave (by the Food Emporium). Otherwise, look for...

Oct 10th

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LAST DAY of Art in Odd Places: CHANCE! Check out...

This is the final day of Art in Odd Places: CHANCE! If you’ve been waiting to the last minute to check out all the fabulous projects happening along 14th Street in the past 10 days - it has arrived! Click on the ‘Upcoming Events’ tab on the AiOP website for a detailed schedule of events for today. We hope to see you out and about in this beautiful weather!

Oct 9th

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Our last event for AiOP: CHANCE is happening...

JOIN US for the culminating event of Green Map System’s festival-long scavenger hunt at the 14th Street Y (344 E 14th St @ 1st Ave) TODAY, Sunday (October 10) 1-4PM- you can participate even if you didn’t hunt for icons throughout the festival! Spotting Signs of Progress - Green Map Icons, Sustainability and YOU! Community Icon Design Studio organized by Green Map System October...

Oct 9th

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All Elastic City "Lucky Walks" for SATURDAY AND...

Please visit www.elastic-city.com to sign up for future walks. Congrats guys!

Oct 9th

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Video Screening curated by Marco Antonini...

Join us for Something - a video screening curated by Marco Antonini at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W 14th St, btwn 6th Ave and 7th Ave, 2nd floor), 7pm: This video screening will explore the themes of chance, randomness and the unforeseen in contemporary art. It will question how unexpected events become opportunities, how they represent a risk, and what threat they pose to the time-space...

Oct 8th

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Celebrate BroLab's triumphant 24 Hour rendition of...

Catch BroLab as the transport water from the East River to the Hudson and back for 24 hours straight - from Friday 3PM until Saturday at 3PM. they will be celebrating the completion of this endurance project at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E. 14th St (off Ave B) Saturday, Oct 9 (3-6pm). JOIN US! Pump 14 is a manual bucket filtration system performed by six members of the BroLab...

Oct 8th

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FINAL CHANCE to participate in Paul Notzold's...

Final chance to take part in Paul Notzold’s project TXTual Healing TONIGHT (Friday, October 8) 8-10pm on the facade of the old Virgin Megastore at Union Square (52 E 14th St @ Broadway)! 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...

Oct 8th

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Wooster Collective talk FRIDAY at Pratt Manhattan...

Join us today for a talk by the Wooster Collective (Sara and Marc Schiller) TONIGHT, 7PM (Friday, October 8) at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W 14th St, btwn 6th and 7th Ave). Copies of their new book Trespass will be available. Street art at its heart is ephemeral, site specific, and illegal. With such powerful attributes, artists who have been putting work up on the street are now the...

Oct 8th

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Final Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group...

Join us for the Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group’s final performance and workshop in the Art in Odd Places: CHANCE festival on Thursday, October 7th at the Cunningham Studio (55 Bethune Street, 11th floor). Workshop begins at 3pm, Performance at 5pm. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Repertory Understudy Group will perform and offer workshops at several locations along and near 14th...

Oct 7th

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Scott Kildall's "After Thought" at the 14th St Y -...

Join Scott Kildall at the 14th Street Y (344 E 14th Street at 1st Ave) on Thursday, October 7 3:30-7:30 for his participatory project After Thought: After Thought is a personality test that uses flashcards and brainwave analysis to test stress and relaxation levels. Each of the participants is invited to conduct an interview with the artist, during which they wear an EEG-reading headset...

Oct 7th

Opening Reception photos

Argenis Apolinario’s photos from the AiOP Opening Reception on Friday, October 1 at TheaterLab. here

Oct 4th

Elastic City's 'Lucky Walk' -- FULL

Reserve your tickets for other Elastic City walks here.

Oct 4th

Opening Night Reception Was A Success

Friday, October 1 (7-9pm) at TheaterLab 137 W 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues The opening night of Art in Odd Places 2010: CHANCE featured one-time projects by Einat Amir, Mike Estabrook, and Bryan Zanisnik, and a premiere of works in and around TheaterLab by: BroLab Collective, The Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Carrie Dashow, Flux Factory, Irvin Morazan, Paul...

Sep 20th

Recent Press

The Economist New York Press Time Out NY / Feature Time Out NY / Fall Preview Time Out NY / 101 Things To Do This Fall in NYC New York Post / Endless Summer

Sep 20th

Artists

Einat Amir, Liene Bosquê & Nicole Seisler, BroLab Collective, The Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Christopher Dameron & Annika Newell, Carrie Dashow, Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Thomas Dexter, Elastic City, Mike Estabrook, Flux Factory, Green Map System, Linda Hesh, Scott Kildall, Irvin Morazan, Simonetta Moro, Paul Notzold, Nancy Nowacek, Sheryl Oring, Jessica Ann Peavy, Maya...

Aug 23rd

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Aug 23rd

SIDESHOW is a huge success!

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) SIDESHOW, a carnival-inspired fundraiser, on Tuesday, June 22, 7-10pm at TheaterLab, located at 137 W 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues was a huge success! Read the Huffington Post article

Mar 30th

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Jan 15th

2009 Festival is a wrap!

This year Art in Odd Places was bigger and better than ever- taking a huge team effort to create the 14th Street festival over four weeks in October. Guest curators, Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam raised the bar significantly taking the AiOP concept to new levels. Thanks to everyone who made AiOP 2009: SIGN an enormous success. Hats off to guest curators, designers, staff, interns,...

Oct 31st

In the New York Times, Paper Magazine, and more!

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/arts/02spare.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Art%20in%20Odd%20Places&st=cse Paper Magazine http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2009/10/theres_art_in_odd_places_along.php and more Domus http://www.domusweb.it/upd_Art/article.cfm?idtipo=3&id=709 Professional Dreamers http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?p=437 NY Magazine ...

Oct 17th

Last Week. Panel Discussion: "At Odds: The Law and...

in conjunction with Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN on 14th Street through October 26 Art in Odd Places & Pratt Manhattan Gallery present Panel Discussion “At Odds: The Law and Public Art” Thursday, October 15 at 7pm Pratt Manhattan Gallery 144 West 14th Street btwn Sixth & Seventh Avenues 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011 212 647 7778 Free and open to the public ...

Oct 9th

More press!

http://www.kiptonart.com/magazine/index.php?req=article&id=213 http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/2009/10/tea-for-two-at-art-in-odd-places/ http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2009/10/08/video-city-meditation-crew-tells-new-yorkers-to-slow-down

Oct 8th

NBC NY- Excellent: New Yorkers Enlist Monty Burns...

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Excellent-New-Yorkers-Enlist-Monty-Burns-for-Mayor-60287437.html

Sep 23rd

OPENING PARTY: Thurs OCT 1 (6-9pm)

Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN Opening Reception Thursday, October 1 (6-9pm) at Theaterlab 137 14th Street btwn Sixth & Seventh Avenues Featuring the isophonic sounds of Roland P. Young, musician, sound philosopher, and composer. Plus a selection of AiOP 2009: SiGN artists on 14th Street, joined by performing friends roaming through three floors of improvisational wonder. AiOP is...

Sep 15th

SiGN featured in NYC's 2009 Fall Preview Hot...

Time Out New York: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/fall-in-nyc/77820/art-in-odd-places-2009 NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/09/24/2009-09-24_michael_jackson_movie_adam_lambert_and_kris_allen_albums_and_nyc_marathon_are_mu.html?page=3 The Villager http://www.thevillager.com/villager_334/thealist.html

Aug 19th