Work went up today for the 2nd- and 3rd-year summer MICA students’ exhibit, which opens Friday. I installed a participatory kinetic sculpture called “Not Magnetic, Not True.” Don’t feel bad if you mistook it for something else.
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Tags: Baltimore, MICA, Preguntando, Questioning, tire swing
This is one side of the tire swing that goes up in the alley this weekend. Guess the words on the other side and I’ll personally spin you on the swing on Sunday.
Also shown are the cool pink shoes my sweetheart bought me. Mmmmmm hmm.
Tags: "Let me ride", Axis Alley, Baltimore, new shoes, swing, tire
Here’s a partial list of what I’m bringing to Baltimore tomorrow:
ratchet set, ladder, plastic Santa sleigh, half of a pink plastic pet carrier, Mylar, Tyvek, drywall screws, contact cement, mattress springs, a mental image of Alan Shepard plucked from the Pacific
and assembly instructions:
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Tags: Axis Alley, Baltimore, installation, mothership connection
I made a lot of progress in the alley today and met some of my co-exhibitors. I have a cloud of accumulated plastic junk, hung precariously on a cable between the house and a stoic tree. More photos on Flickr.
I found out that my particular site had been shelter for some folks, and they were (cinder)blocked out because of this show. I don’t think that’s bad, necessarily—they were doing drugs in an abandoned building and using the lot next door as an open-air toilet, in an alley a block away from an elementary school. But it does make me think in a new way about what I’m doing.
I used to make art like this because it was my neighborhood. Now I drive for 45 minutes into the inner city to make art from trash, then drive back and clean my own house with a designer vacuum cleaner. Why am I putting this effort and money into creating art and not into building homes for people who have none?
This is standard stuff, really: Does art have any real value? Is it an ethical pursuit while people lack food and shelter? I don’t mind being conflicted, because I haven’t asked myself these questions in a while. Maybe I’ll stumble over the answer out in the alley.
Tags: Axis Alley, Baltimore, installation, qualms