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May 08, 2008 Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A ComingLinda Frye Burnham / 04:57 PM There's a lovely story on the Web site of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama, about a mural just painted by artist Tierney Malone, titled "Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A Coming." It incorporates many of the things Malone learned about the area while he spent the year painting. Malone has intentionally left the mural with a blank spot, the final piece belonging to local young people to decide. The Coleman Center will work with students enrolled in their summer Drawing and 2D Design Class to come up with the final element of the York mural. The Coleman Center is showing drawings Malone made during the mural process. Opening festivities will take place on Saturday, May 10th. A celebration of Malone’s mural and a cookout will begin at 4 PM in downtown York. The exhibition opening will continue in the Coleman Center gallery from 6 to 8 PM. Tierney Malone, Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A Coming
May 06, 2008 A great video on a community arts projectLinda Frye Burnham / 11:01 AM This video documents community artist Mari Gardner's work with juvenile offenders on a mosaic for the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. Mari has written for CAN. Go here.
Document your friends Linda Frye Burnham / 10:35 AM Forwarded from artist Harrell Fletcher: I've started a new participatory website. It's called Some People. The idea is that people select other people that they know or would like to know and make a web documentary about them. The documented people need to be alive and willing and really interesting in one way or another (and not already well known). My hope is that eventually the site will become a vast archive of interesting people that you most likely otherwise would never find out about. There are a few documentaries on the site already, but I'm hoping people will start to add more and more--revealing otherwise hidden lives and creating new documentary approaches within the public space of the web. The plan is that eventually there will also be Some People exhibitions, publications, radio pieces, and video screenings selected from the ever growing content on the Some People site. If anyone has interest in organizing a presentation of that sort please let me know. Thanks and take care, harrell
May 05, 2008 Rent Ten CanoesLinda Frye Burnham / 12:59 PM "Ten Canoes" is a must-see Australian movie (you can rent it from Netflix), especially for artists who are devising theater and media projects with communities. From the Vertigo Productions Web site: "The film is unique in that it is the first feature film to be shot entirely in Aboriginal language (predominantly Ganalbingu), and it is set both in the past (centuries ago, before the coming of white people to Australia) and in the Ganalbingu mythical past. "It is a tragi-comedy, a cautionary tale of love, lust and revenge gone wrong that, incidental to its central story line, also explores something of the "old ways". "The film is directed by Rolf de Heer and features the son of David Gulpilil in one of the lead roles: twenty-two year-old Jamie Gulpilil, whose traditional lands fall within the Arafura Swamp area. "The entire cast are people indigenous to the swamp region, mainly Ganalbingu and related clans, who are also responsible for the making of all the traditional artefacts needed for the film, such as the swamp-specific bark canoes, the spears and other weaponry and the dwellings. Indigenous people from the area are involved at most levels of the production, from input into and editorial control of the script to the casting and selection of locations." Both the Vertigo Web site and the film's official Web site offer numerous study-guide and other materials.
May 02, 2008 Lumen Eclipse: dance in Harvard SquareLinda Frye Burnham / 11:49 AM Lumen Eclipse is a beguiling exercise in public art: a pair of large outdoor video screens in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. – the screens incite public interaction with motion-based art by bringing artwork to the street, confronting passers by with artworks from dusk 'til 2 a.m. seven days a week. Lumen Eclipse shows an average of eight works a month, nearly artworks a year (each piece running 2-8 minutes in length). Artworks are shown for one calendar month. In two years, they've shown 250 artists, including emerging, mid-career and well-known artists like Miranda July, Yoko Ono, Isaac Julien and Michel Gondry. They say on their Web site that they are provoking public interaction. You can see the films on the Web and sign up for their mailing list.
May 01, 2008 Robot to conduct Detroit SymphonyLinda Frye Burnham / 02:07 PM Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs “Impossible Dream” to open a special concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at 8 p.m, Tuesday, May 13. Honda hopes ASIMO’s appearance will draw attention to the DSO’s music education programs, and particularly the DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit.
April 28, 2008 Notice the work of Matthew DehaemersLinda Frye Burnham / 10:41 AM Take a look at the work of Matthew Dehaemer, a Kansas City sculptor and public artist who has done fascinating work with numerous communities, including Alzheimer's patients and caregivers. During his 2007 residency at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, he helped caregivers record the journeys of their family members affected by the disease, creating multimedia installations containing reliquaries and video testaments. They also crafted a labyrinth based on a PET scan of an Alzheimer patient's brain, combined with the marble floor labyrinth in Chartres cathedral. It's inscribed with various texts from the project, written backwards as you walk to the center of the labyrinth, then coming into clarity as you walk back out. This project is still being featured in Memory Walks and other events sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association of Delaware. It's worth a visit on Dehaemers' Web site, as is the award-winning installation he did in 2006 commemorating the 87th anniversary of the 1919 Omaha Race Riot resulting in the hanging, shooting, dragging and burning of William Brown. (Thanks to the DCCA for sending us their lovely "Art & Community 2006-2007" catalogue, including the community work of Dehaemers, Claire Sherwood, Yukie Kobayashi and Aria Anasazi.) |
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