PICA and ORLO are welcoming San Francisco’s arts group ReBar for a lecture and Q & A tomorrow night, Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 PM at AIA Portland (403 NW 11th). Admission is free at the door. Reserved seating tickets available online at www.orlo.org.
ReBar probably got the most notice for projects like Park[ing] Day where they transformed metered parking spots into temporary public parks with sod, tree, and park bench. Perhaps more interesting is their COMMONspace project, an exploration, cataloguing and interaction with (performance action) San Francisco’s increasing number of privately-owned public spaces addressing questions surrounding just how public they are and which of our fistful of rights we can claim (free speech?) when we’re in those spaces.
This is their first visit to Portland. PICA hopes to see the visit “energize the Portland design community to challenge current ideas of public space and discuss issues concerning our built environment.” Hear hear.
POSTED: March 26th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, lecture, performance art | No Comments »
The Center for Land Use Interpretation came up recently as Brennan Conaway and Nowhere co-conspirators/designers are headed to CLUI’s Wendover, Utah site for a residency. (He neglected to mention what kind of work he anticipated doing out there, but his website says “My projects out there will involve .30-30 ammunition, internal combustion engines and unintended consequences.”)
Tonight Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation will be at PSU to lecture about the various strains of his work with the Center. CLUI maintains an online database of unusual and exemplary land use in the United States (from the Vortex in Oregon to the Asarco copper smelter in Texas), publishes books, runs the residency program and interpretive site in the salt flats of Utah, and conducts public tours. An interesting recent program: Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America.
It goes down tonight, February 4, at 7:30 PM “Sharp!” (like that) at PSU 5th Avenue Cinema, Room 90, 510 SW Hall St. at SW 5th.
More? From the source:
The CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history. The work of the Center is presented in museums and noncommercial exhibit spaces, as well as in the institution’s network of public exhibit facilities. Coolidge teaches in the curatorial practice program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
POSTED: February 18th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: art, design, lecture | No Comments »