This one has been making the rounds lately. If you haven’t seen it yet, Poster Boy’s process is worth your 120 seconds.
Update: They’re on Facebook. While you’re there, add us, too!
With the commercial flight and blight coming to roost in our neighborhoods, it seems like perfect timing for a creative and innovative stimulus plan. Smartspaces.org, a Fiscal Sponsorship Project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), provides one creative and artful option: showing professionally curated artwork in empty commercial spaces.
In the blink of an eye, empty commercial space becomes the next public gallery — and a place tenants want to be. Artists gain a window to showcase their diverse talents with the eyes of the world’s most influential city upon them. Art grabs the attention of passersby, sparks conversation, and advertises a landlord with vision and smarts.
Their first installation took place on May 28, 2008, and featured the work of Tamara Gayer. Below is a clip from the opening:
I WANT TO DO THIS ALL DAY is an audio documentary about “Redefining Learning and Reinventing Education. “ The documentary uses interviews from 23 different learning spaces to illuminate the grassroots movement of people and communities taking power over their own education and creating learning environments based on freedom, cooperation and social change.
Thanks, Will!
Each month, Nicole Garneau stages site-specific performance works that broadly explore the practice of revolution. Titled UPRISING, the performances are “attempts at making the world in which we want to live,” “public demonstrations of the possibilities for a more loving, just and humane present and future.”
The first year of performances can be explored on Nicole’s website, and have been developed into a subscription-based project documenting the live performances. Through a partnership with Links Hall, EVIDENCE catalogs each performance in postcard form, with photographs and accompanying text.
In response to the current Israeli offensive, The Media Education Foundation (MEF) has released their feature-length documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land online for free.
The MEF explains:
The film traces a longstanding pattern of media bias in the U.S., providing much needed context for understanding American news coverage of events in Gaza now [and] has elicited widespread praise for its clear-eyed analysis of both the conflict and the often one-sided way it has been presented to Americans over the years . . . We are taking this unprecedented step to offer critical perspective on how the U.S. news media are covering this crisis.
The poster above is by Jesus Barraza, and is also available for free from the Just Seeds Blog.
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