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A collaboration of 5 artists that sought to imagine an alternative version of the city archive. Rather than collecting documents focused on important historical events, the archive endeavored to preserve the sounds, emotions, and observations of neighborhood life. By gathering the varied, daily experiences of present-day city residents the exhibition was able to explore what gets left off maps and out of archives. Exhibit components included A Card Catalog of Providence Longing, City Soundmarks, Register of Neighborhood Details, and Mapping Community/Community Maps.
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Wasteland Twinning is a collective of artists and researchers that aim to demonstrate the unique and valuable role “Wasteland Spaces” hold for the future of humanity. Through transdisciplinary research, collective members reveal the ways in which urban wastelands support inner-city biodiversity, serve as carbon sinks, improve hydrological attenuation, provide open space, and represent freedom from the controlled built environment. The collective's work goes beyond the obvious to examine often invisible perspectives on power relations, land use, urban development, and ecology.
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A floor installation designed for the American Dance Legacy Initiative’s 2013 Mini Fest. The piece offered a cross-temporal vision of the Providence Arcade (the oldest mall in America), layering archival images and documentary photographs of a site-specific dance piece performed on the steps of the abandoned mall. The viewers’ physical presence upon the photographs served as an invitation to transcend the boundaries of time and become an additional layer of the Arcade’s history.
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A collaboration between artist Adj Marshall and youth members of ReGeneration NZ resulting in a 50-ft multimedia audio mural installation located in Wellington, New Zealand. The mural images document historical activist movements and are based on archival ephemera from the NZ National Library, NZ National Archives, and Te Papa Tongarewa Maori Museum. Accompanying each image in the mural is a digital audio device, allowing viewers to listen to an oral history interview with present-day activists describing lessons learned from their forbearers.
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A 4’x8’ analogue infographic based on census data spanning 1790–2007. With the use of over 300 pieces of silverware the piece visualizes the metalsmithing industry’s transition from a highly individualized artisan craft to one of mechanization and mass production while also documenting the industries growth and decline over a 200-year span.
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A participatory public art project exploring site specificity and appropriation through the rich visual culture of street art in Providence. By bounding the art within picture frames the artists created false contexts locating an art form that is inherently renegade within the aesthetic and tradition of the institution. Printed on stickers these framed graffiti were then offered to the public for relocation. Transplantation allowed the disruption of the original art’s place based relationships and conversations to created new ones.
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A commission by the Providence Department of Art Culture + Tourism to integrate art into existing civic architecture by painting city utility boxes with site-specific designs.
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A radical community marching band that plays in support of select causes and events, believing that music may be more powerful than weapons, arguments, or war. The band contributes to making the experience of saving the world a bit more fun and weird by building community and sharing their love of music with each other and their audiences.