Healing Cotton Balls (Ouch)
Artists: Claudia Sandoval and Marrikka Trotter
Location: Rua Agusta con Fernando, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: 3/29/2008
Every city tenses at its thresholds – the zones between public and private are always fortified, whether physically or virtually, through architectural strategies, manned patrols, security cameras and systems, or combinations of all of these. This small-scale intervention was intended to respond to a common strategy of threshold defense in Sao Paulo, spikes set in concrete, in a way that both called attention to a habitual tactic of urban defense, and sought to temporarily appropriate an aggressive infrastructure with a small act of gentleness and delight. more info
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Our intention is to provide a platform for the investigation, production and promotion of site-responsive temporary art projects. With a budget limited to twenty dollars (ltd.) per project, artists and designers are invited to contribute to the dialogue about art in the context of public spaces and geared toward pedestrian audiences, and to participate in a collective examination of the abiding issues of the commodification of contemporary art within the larger economic and cultural organization of our society.
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more projects to come...one from Columbia soon
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small things project, with 50 5th graders from Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown, Boston.
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Santos
Intervene! Interrupt!
Rethinking Art as Social Practice
The University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
May 15-17, 2008
Hopeless and Otherwise
Southern Exposure,
San Francisco, CA
May 23, 2008 - July 3, 2008
