Tricks of the Eye
Posted February 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
If you're in Providence, or will be over the next month, stop by and check out this exhibit, which includes the Celebrate People's History posters:
Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape
Opening Night, Thursday March 5th , 6-8pm
RISD|Public Engagement, 2nd Floor
CIT Building, 169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI
March 5 thru April 3, 2009.
RISD|Public Engagement is pleased to sponsor the upcoming exhibit Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape. The exhibition highlights the ways that local and national artists respond to the shifting landscapes that backdrop and underline our society’s actions and intentions. Viewed together, the documentation of these at projects foster a vibrant learning environment for the RISD and Providence communities to develop an expanded horizon of what it means to make socially- and publicly-engaged artwork.
Tricks of the Eye incorporates documentation of past and current projects that invite multiple methods of engagement from the viewer. Documentation strategies include web presentations, printed material, models, as well as ephemera from the original artwork.
Artists and projects in the exhibition include:
220 Glimpses of Utopia (John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles, CA)
Arctic Listening Post (Jane D. Marsching, Boston, MA)
Armadillo FEMA Trailer Project (Jae Rhim Lee, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
Blue Hammer and ReMEMBERing Wilde (Leon Johnson, Portland, ME)
Celebrate Peoples' History Poster Project (Josh MacPhee, Brooklyn, NY)
Just Fish (Pam Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland)
Navigating the Space between Home & Exile (Sheryl Mendez, New York City, NY and Iraq)
The NY Times Special Edition (Steve Lambert, New York City, NY)
Meyers Bitter Survey (National Bitter Melon Council, Boston, MA)
Voices and Visions (Holly Ewald, Warwick, RI)
Complementing the exhibition, RISD | Public Engagement has programmed a series of discussions throughout the month of March around emergent and interconnected themes, featuring presentations by exhibition artists, informal panels, and class visits. For updates on the schedule of events, artists’ bios and project descriptions, please visit: www.risdpublicengagement.net
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