This place begins.
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http://www.movinginplace.net/beingthereinfo/
Is 4:56pm February 13, 2009 a ‘place’? This is where this place begins. You are invited to become a part of this place. A sense of where you are creates a ‘sense of place’. This project is meant to give access to another kind of space and locate you there.
Via this project, you are invited to enter your data [social and theoretical] in order to contribute to what ‘sense of place’ means. The synergy created creates a new place. Your random thoughts and considered opinions can create an ‘imagery’, and your photos can document this imagery. The growing archive seeks to sustain a continuation of explorations of what ’sense of place’ means.
Become a part of senseofplaceLAB.
senseofplaceLAB.com is an online laboratory to collect and discuss art / design / architecture / urban planning concepts that communicate a sense of place. A project by Laurie Halsey Brown.
* Comment on the data in the ongoing archive: i.e. what do you think?
* Use the [100's of posts and the search engine on the] site as a research reference point, and contribute your considered opinion based on that research.
* Become a senseofplaceLAB Facebook friend and leave random thoughts and images as part of the research data of what ’sense of place’ means.
* Visualize a ’sense of place’ via the senseofplaceLAB Gallery: send a photo, design or other image that reflects a sense of place to be uploaded onto the site gallery; dimensions: W 177 x H 407 pixels. 72res.
* Start a community someplace…send me a URL that best reflects a specific ‘location’ [maybe your travel blog?]- to be uploaded onto the Community page.
- peace in place, laurie
laurie@senseofplaceLAB.com
Open Empty Spaces, Cardiff, UK
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Open Empty Spaces is an artist-led curatorial project promoting the creation of temporary, non-gallery based exhibiting spaces in public space throughout Cardiff. They are currently looking for proposals from visual artists, at any stage in their career, working in any medium, to produce site-specific, temporary artworks.
openemptyspaces@hotmail.com
cities in one minute
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http://www.theoneminutes.org
In the coming months many artists around the world will contribute to this new project and make portraits of cities they live in or travel to. Portraits are currently being made in Teheran, Budapest, Utrecht and Kuala lumpur. The results will be shown on a new website that will be online in spring, followed by broadcasts and exhibitions in the netherlands and china. more info: city@theoneminutes.org
Public Art Bucharest
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http://www.nbk.org
Bucharest is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, a place where post-communism and globalization have released great tensions in architecture, city planning, and social policy. The public space of a city is defined above all by the social interactions of the residents and the ways in which these tensions are perceived and reacted to. In this project, the unresolved questions of the recent communist past and current processes of transformation were explored artistically and anchored in a public debate.
The pilot project Public Art Bucharest | Spatiul Public Bucuresti consisted of a series of artistic interventions, discussions, and actions, and took place in 2007.
DJ in the Anarctic
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In 2008 Paul Miller went to Antarctica to shoot a film about the sound of ice, and ended up creating an installation out of the journey. Paul Miller recasts the epic detritus of the art and other cultural worlds as skillfully handled archival video samplings, digital prints, and drawings, calling into question the value of appropriation and the status of the copy. Finding inspiration in historic documents and films like James F. Cook’s infamous 1912 film “The Truth about the Pole” (a false narrative made by the “explorer” using the North Pole as a film studio, Cook tried to portray himself in a documentary he self-financed as the true discoverer of the North Pole), and rare images of Admiral Byrd’s 1939 voyage to the South Pole, Miller explores the range of “truth” in modern portrayals of the explorer’s path. In 2007-2008 Miller spent four weeks in Antarctica re-tracing several explorers’ journeys and with his “North/South” show, he reconstructs a collage of their journals and ephemera in multiple contexts. Using materials as diverse as John Cage’s 1938 “Imaginary Landscape #1″ as an inspiration (it was the first composition written for turntables) Miller looks at how documents and archival materials influence perception of history and the search for the explorer’s goal of defining new frontiers. In “North/South” he deftly recontextualizes the rhetorical tropes of music notation and graphic design to mine the intersection of public and personal.
