George Spencer’s “Long Count” (Photo courtesy of Sarah Brozna). Art in Odd Places previewed 11 projects from its upcoming October festival NUMBER as part of this year’s IDEAS CITY StreetFest. For those of you who missed the event, presented by the New Museum, here’s a peek at those projects in action. You can always catch [...]
Art in Odd Places (AiOP), New York City’s annual public art and performance festival will preview eleven projects from its upcoming October festival NUMBER at the New Museum’s IDEA CITY festival StreetFest on Saturday, May 4 from 11am to 6pm. AiOP 2013: NUMBER takes up the pressures and provocations of the numerologies of our time. [...]
February 26, 2013 – 6:24 pm
By Matthew Morowitz For the past 20 years, Australian artists Susan Milne and Greg Stonehouse have been collaborators on public art projects and installations, creating large-scale works, architectural flourishes, and other curiosities for both external and internal spaces. During the summer of 2012, these two had taken up a residency in NYC, where they were [...]
February 19, 2013 – 3:53 am
By Matthew Morowitz Photographs (clockwise from upper left): skart, seesaw play-grow (dish familysh), street action, belgrade, 2010, photo by skart; Scott Beale / Laughing Squid; Fermid by Behnaz Babazadeh; J. Chou, FPAP Flint, Michigan is going through a renaissance of sorts, but instead of a rebirth the city is being reclaimed and transformed. These two ideas are the theme of [...]
February 12, 2013 – 2:38 pm
Nothing quite says romance like a performance art piece that recreates your own unique love story. Art in Odd Places presents Brooklyn-based artist Rory Golden’s Valentine’s Day Reenactments, a roving street performance that will inspire the public to share their love stories and adapt these narratives into mini movies. Golden’s Valentine’s Day public premiere will [...]
February 5, 2013 – 7:48 pm
A unique hybrid of pop culture overkill and avant-garde experimentalism, “Danza Did It” is a performance art project that aims to explore the talents of Tony Danza and inject the phrase “Danza Did It” into everyday lexicon. Online in origin, this phenomenon is meant to manifest into the real world and become a part of [...]
February 1, 2013 – 5:21 pm
OCTOBER 11–20, 2013 on 14th Street NYC CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS Deadline: March 1, 2013, Midnight EST AiOP invites imaginative proposals for its ninth annual public art and performance festival. This edition takes place October 11-20, 2013 along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in NYC. We welcome disciplinary diversity — visual/installation, performance, time-based media, [...]
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January 23, 2013 – 6:10 pm
By Matthew Morowitz In this series, “Guerrilla Academia,” Art in Odd Places will be highlighting different organizations and individuals who are offering innovative and engaging art education opportunities outside of the traditional venues of the university and the museum. Skillshare “Learnapalooza” (Photo courtesy of Skillshare) In our last two posts, AiOP featured an individual and [...]
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January 9, 2013 – 7:57 pm
Welcome to the very first Art in Odd Places podcast! Today we’re chatting with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko about his upcoming show, other.explicit.bodies. While we’re at it we discuss representations of the black male body in the media and everyday performances of race and gender. Plus we’ll have some tunes by Kepi Ghoulie and mr. Gnome. [...]
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January 2, 2013 – 3:48 pm
By Matthew Morowitz “Lawrence Graham-Brown” photo courtesy of Daniel Talonia. other.explicit.bodies is part of Dance New Amsterdam’s (DNA) LateNite series, a triannual event that is presented as a late evening venue and was created to give voice to artists working in performance art, experimental theater, and burlesque. The title of this year’s triannual is taken from [...]
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