I was thinking about the kind of project sometimes called an "intervention," which I understand to be a placing of an artwork (object, action, idea) in an already existing stream of activity. The existing stream could be political (like interrupting a city hall meeting for example), art-related (moving paintings around in the museum HEE HEE), public space-oriented etc. I'm giving examples that are just coming to mind and they are very obvious, but I wonder what an Inland Empire-specific intervention would be like.
I was thinking about this inSite project [www.insite05.org] that happened a few years ago in San Diego that was about mapping the liminal space of borders : "Operating through a unique collaborative structure that is based on the active participation of cultural and educational institutions in the US and Mexico,
inSite is focused on promoting artistic investigation and activation of urban space." (from the website).
This is a huge scale project but since it's nature was institutional collaboration to explore a difficult idea/position in that region, I thought it was interesting for us to look at as a model, thinking all the time what how it might relate to our project/practice in MP and how it could manifest in the Inland Empire.
What borders/liminal spaces are there to explore here? What would an intervention look like here that involves collaboration and elasticizing the self-imposed borders/barriers of creative activity in this region?
