Swoon presentation v2
- 1. Objectives Students will learn that art occurs outside of galleries and museums. Students will understand that the placement or location is significant to arts impact. Students will gain insight into the value of connecting with an unsuspecting audience.
- 2. swoon
- 3. Birth Name: Caledonia Dance Curry Born in 1977 in Daytona Beach, Florida she now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Street Artist who’s known for her life size wheatpasteing prints and her flotillas.
- 4. A word about Banksy street art… It is important that street art be Shepard Fairy (Obey Giant) placed very quickly due to its illegality. Street artists accomplish this through various means including spray painting, stencilling and wheatpasting. Even with these techniques most street art is created in remote locations under cover of night. These locations are usually neglected urban areas where one wouldn’t usually expect to find provocative art. Because the art isn’t being sold or paied for by a comercial interest the content of the art is compleatly up to the artists discression. Miss Van
- 5. Social Sculpture Swoon painstakingly creates life size woodblock prints, wherein the “reverse” of the image is carved into wood and then stamped onto huge sheets of paper, then cut out and placed on almost any surface using a homemade glue called wheatpaste. This allows her to create an image with a lot of detail that can still be placed relatively quickly.
- 6. Sylvia Elena She was killed in killed in 1995 in Juarez, Mexico at the age of 17. This image was created to raise awarness of the rampant number of women that are murdered (600 since the 90s) or go missing (3000 since the 90s) in Juarez.
- 7. Influence Her art draws from the influence of previous artists while appealing to modern audiences. Henri de Talouse-Lautrec Rembrandt van Rijn Max Ernst
- 8. However Swoon has taken these influences to the street where everyone can experience them, not only gallery and museum goers.
- 9. Braddock, Pennsylvania A suburb of Pennsylvania, Braddock’s population has decreases 90% since the 1950s. It’s primary industry, steel, collapsed while a crack cocaine Gustav Klimt epidemic took place in the creative life back into the The Kiss in the 80s leaving the city decrepid city. Countless Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, dilapidated and rife with artists have responded, Vienna, Austria crime. In 2005 is mayor including Swoon and her Admission Approx. $20 extended an open invitation community. Now residents to street artists to have and visitors get to enjoy free run of the community incredible street art in hopes of breathing a throughout Braddock every day for absolutely free.
- 10. New Orleans, Louisiana Portland, What do you know about Oregon these cities and why do you think swoon chose these locations?
- 11. New Orleans, Louisiana Placed outside the location for her up comming instalation Dithyrambalina—a Portland, musical house. Oregon Placed under the 205 bridge in the recently gentrafied Pearl District.
- 12. Lower Clarion East Side, Alley, San Manhattan, Francisco, New York California
- 13. Lower Clarion East Side, Alley, San Manhattan, Francisco, New York California An immigrant neighborhood, it has Formerly a Latin American neighborhood undergone recent gentrification. it’s now a notable art community.
- 14. Floating Exhibitions Beginging in 2006 Swoon and her community of artists began collaborating to construct a series of amphibious exhibitions to navagate various waterways around the world.
- 15. The Miss Rockaway Armada In 2006 Swoon and a collective of 30 artists navagated the Missippi from Minneapolis to St. Loiuis in craft made from recycled and found materieals.
- 16. Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea In 2008 Swoon and her colorabators took seven vessels down the Hudson River from Troy, NY to Long Island. Along their route the company would stop at night to perform live music along the riverbank.
- 17. Swimming Cities of Serenissima In 2009 Swoon and her “crew” transported two vessels to Slovania and constructed a third from materieals scavanged from the coast. They proceded to travel to Vienna, Italy stoping by the shore to preform and collect artifacts for their “Cabnet Of Curriousities”.
- 18. Konbit Shelter A sustainable building project with the objective of sharing knowledge and resources through the creation of homes and community spaces in post-earthquake Haiti
- 19. What do you think? Can a piece of art raise more awareness about a specific issue if it is placed in a controversial location? Can art on a street impact people differently than art in a museum or gallery? Does this only apply to visual arts? What about street musicians, preformers, bridges or architecture? Why are some people allowed to make public art and some are not? Who has the right to determine what we see, smell hear or feel? Are you prepared to decide what’s suitable for public viewing and what’s not?
- 20. Activity Before the lesson begins print and distribute an image and a piece of tape to every participant. (See attached image file or find your own.) Without explaining why or giving limitations invite the participants to hang their selected image anywhere and in any fashion. After the lession invite the participants to discuss and critique how they and their fellow participants hung their individual images. Invite them to rehang theirs or to hang another. Points to consider: • Are muesuems and galleries good or bad for art in general? Where else can one view so much different art in one place? • Should street art be illegal? What about violent, racist or sexist images? Where is street art OK? What about the front of your home? • What authority does a street artist have over their work after they create it? Could a builting owner cut a piece of art off their wall and sell it? Does the art belong to the owner of the wall it is on? • What responsibilities do property owners have to their comunity? Should they be required to make their property look “good”?