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?
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Yes, I really like the border site works.... I know that project well, even thought i have never seen it in person. Like when we were talking about an urban interventions on a small scale. I really am interested in the andy goldworthy interventions in nature practice. I am kind of amazed at his utilizing the materials around him to create the structures that disrupt as well as integrate into the surroundings. I am also thinking of my favorite Linda Montana performances, which were all done in private yet she documented them.( are they private) The link I am making with that is that there are not sensational but at the same time subversively disruptive. We live in such a time of sensationalism, how can we disrupt urban environments in subtle ways.
This is a really good point. And anyway we have had so much of disruption for decades, shock that was necessary. Now I wonder if applying that filter of "thirdspace" problem solving or vision where constant alternatives are presented and shifting reality becomes a kind of stabilizing network of possibilities that can be simultaneously implemented, discarded, implemented, retained, discarded, resumed, etc.
Subtle introduction of options that disrupt mainly the possibility of concretizing any singular way of viewing a situation/work/etc.
We were talking about this Andy Goldsworthy-esque work that might be about urban rather than remote nature spaces. This could be an exciting thing to explore. We should just go and try it one day in downtown Riverside, especially after they have some one of their many festivals or right after the famers market on Saturday. I bet there is plenty of "material" to work with in that setting.
Do you have any references (web or other) to Linda Montana? I am not familiar with her.
Still thinking about the urban Andy Goldsworthy that Pam mentioned the other day after seeing the Bower Birds at work. I think it would be a fun weekend project after Linda gets moved to try this in downtown Riv. in terms of an intervention, a beginning investigation, a sketch. What do you think?
haven't had time to read these posts but did scan it. sure, i'm up for an intervention. (will read all this a little later)
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