November 2007
Monthly Archive
Hunting the Now / Cazando el Momento
Posted by Mabel on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Public Art, Urban Art, Art Socializing, Games |
This month…
Hunting the Now/ Cazando El Momento by The Counter Narrative Society
Begin at the corner of 14th and Valencia Streets
For this SAT. Dec. 1 - 11am-5pm
To download a map locating this project from GROUNDED? go to http://soex.org/Event/152.html
Game will be available at various venues and online after Dec. 1 at: TheCounterNarrativeSociety.org
Hunting the Now is a bilingual and peculiar treasure hunt that intends to divulge unique but ordinary features of the present social-urban development of Mission and Valencia Streets between 14th and 24th Streets. Brochures containing map, instructions and clues to the unique destinations we have gathered will be available at Southern Exposure.
Cazando el Momento es un juego bilingüe artístico de encontrar tesoros que divulga cualidades únicas pero cotidianas del presente desarrollo social-urbano de las calles Mission y Valencia entre la calle 14 y 24. Afiches con mapa, instrucciones y pistas de estas destinaciones inusuales estarán disponibles en el local de Southern Exposure.
Hunting the Now is part of Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts’ GROUNDED? 1st Annual Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day. For more information about GROUNDED? including the 16th Annual Juried Exhibition, 5-week Performance Series, and 7th Annual Film/Video Screening please visit soex.org or theintersection.org.
mero cocinero goes to the minnesota state fair.
Posted by karimi on 27 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, Performance, Popular Culture |
my alter ego, mero cocinero karimi, went to the minnesota state fair this past august. i don’t know if you Mero or the State Fair, but Mero was created at the Galeria de La Raza in 1997 when I built my first installation piece for a Regeneration project. He is a progressive idealist chef who wants to start the “revolution one kitchen at a time”. He goes around the country trying to raise consciousness: food, cultural, and political. Anyways, he (I) went to the Minnesota State Fair, home of everything on a stick. In response to this stick mentality, he walked around with every presidential candidate on a stick, and asked people which candidate they want on a stick. It was a riot. People would give him (me) their food to try, and it was hard staying in character for 4 hours. Chihuahua!
Go here for the photo
Love to get folks feedback.
The show itself is different than the other live street performance. I can write about that, too…later.
I am doing the show in houston in December and in the Bay May 08, if you want to eat free food.
Super Jet Reunion (on Lilac St.)
Posted by jocelyn superstar on 23 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Graffiti, Public Art, Art Socializing, Mural Projects |
The new thing is that there’s a mural project finally happening on my block in da mission… finally after all these years. i first got the idea in Rigo’s Public Mural class when i was his TA in 1998 at the San Francisco Art Institute. I tried to get it off the ground several years ago as a female graffiti mural project with crisaida and leslie, but we couldn’t get permission from anyone and it turned into a big headache. But now, finally, my neighbor’s Randolph and Lisa have begun to get permission from many of the building owners and the LILAC MURAL PROJECT is off the ground. it’s not what i originally envisioned, but it still has good energy and is full of plenty of great graffiti pieces (vs traditional brush painted murals). i’ll blog later with pics of all the pieces, but i wanted to share this one to start. this pic was taken a couple of weeks ago. it’s me and Jet (from Clarion Alley Mural Project) reunited. Jet was my student in Rigo’s class at SFAI. Jet’s doing something on Lilac, but not for a bit cuz he was in the middle of wedding plans. Anyhow, i just thought it was a great pic. Jet’s really cool and Randolph captured it in the photo. thanks Randolph for taking this flick!
