Hunting the Now/Cazando el Momento
Posted November 28, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
I just got this announcement, and found out that some really kick-ass artist and thinker friends of mine have formed a group in San Francisco called The Counter Narrative Society (TCNS). Mabel Negrete, Fernando Marti, Fiona Glas and Chris Carlsson are working together as TCNS to collect and divulge stories and histories in innovative and interesting ways. There next project starts December 1st in San Francisco:
As part of the 1st Public Art/Urban Interventions Day called "GROUNDED?" (organized by Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts), TCNS are making a public art project on the theme of “Hunting the Now/Cazando el Momento.” It is a bilingual treasure hunt game, intended to divulge unique features of the present social-urban development of Mission and Valencia Streets between Cesar Chavez and Duboce Street. For more than two centuries these two streets have had a long history of various developments contributing to the cultural mixing, segregation, and iniquities exhibiting today. From the Mexican, Central, Latin American to the European, Asian and African American experience, all of these communities have had a major role in shaping the cultural face of both Mission and Valencia streets. In every instance urban developers, landowners and occupants are contributors to their transformations and vestiges of the past, present and future. In search of this epoch, Hunting the Now creates an unusual foundation or ground into how we look at these two streets as we playfully gaze over them in a Saturday Afternoon. The game will launch on Saturday December 1st, 2007 and be distributed through various venues over the month of December.
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