Taking it to the Street/Time to Build
We know you. You're the kind of person who respects their elders, learns from history, and is ever moving forward. Are we right? And you're probably a new-school head with trump-tight, old-school sensibilities. Right again? And you probably think that you've got what it takes to run with the big dogs. Well, the good people at Obsidian Arts, Inc. in North Minneapolis are waiting to hear from you.
In what can best be described as a proactive effort to deconstruct the past--for the sake of the future--Obsidian is rolling out Exploding Language, a multimedia/new media public art exhibition. In the tradition of the Mexican muralists, and the Watts Towers, this show is all about the community at large. Scheduled to inhabit six blocks of North Minneapolis, Exploding Language is taking it to the people in the realest sense. Activities include training community docents, and hosting art history workshops.
Using the Black Arts Movement as a jumping-off point, artists are invited to submit proposals that successfully interrogate, reinterpret and contemporize BAM artistic and intellectual sensibilities for Generations X, Y, and all that come after. This is an opportunity for 20 emerging artists to literally rewrite history, and build some bridges (digital and otherwise) in the process.
If you got game, give O.A.I. a call; and don't come half-steppin'. They're talking about a "cultural revolution of ideas." So give it all you got, but make it plain. Proposals are due April 15.
Exploding Language will run from July through September 2007.
26 February 2007