Links today!

Today, was my third day of classes, and what a whirlwind it has been. However, despite the tricky adjustment, I've been able to figure out some issues I want to work with in the near future. More activist artwork coming soon!

One of my first "pursuits," as my installation professor likes to call them, is to find where I fit. After a summer of trying to contextualize my work and thought process, I should be a bit closer to figuring that out. Should be, being the correct wording.

Here are the links for today:

• REPOhistory

Straight from their about page:
"Founded in 1989, REPOhistory investigates and re-contextualizes historical representation through site-specific public art works. Based on the concept of re-mapping urban landscapes, our goal is to create works that intervene in an anonymous city-scape by drawing attention to the forgotten or suppressed narratives while revealing the spatial relationships inherent in power, usage and memory.

REPOhistory (repossessing history) is a collective of artists, writers, performers and educators. Originally we believed that guerrilla art projects would be the only course of action available to groups interested in re-presenting history based on a multicultural reading of class, race, gender and sexuality. However, we have created seven officially sanctioned, public funded site-specific project. Paradoxically, despite recent trends in U.S. politics, REPOhistory has been able to find support in three demographically diverse locations and has received its second National Endowment for the Arts grant.

While tactics have changed with each project, the concepts of collaboration in a multicultural context of community inclusion has been central to our original vision of site-specific public art works. The cognitive re-mapping of the ambient urban environment and the evolution of the collaborative process will be analyzed in relationship to previous projects and new works."



Speaking of urban environments, I will suggest two more great resources for finding out more about cities, The Next American City, (which actually has a great Philadelphia page!) and the Philadelphia specific blog Hidden City.

• BOMBsite

Regina Jose Galindo in Bomb
Sharon Hayes + Lawrence Weiner

Check this out!

• LACE

"LACE both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk.  We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art.  In doing so, we further dialogue and participation between and among artists and those audiences."

I got to visit LACE when I was in LA and it was a great experience. Some really incredible projects are underway. My performance art professor actually shared this link, which is a great resource.