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On view at the Kenilworth Studios through May 31 Kenilworth Square East 3rd Floor, Space 363 UW-Milwaukee
1925 E. Kenilworth Place Milwaukee, WI 53202
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Event Horizon Public Art Project and Exhibition Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts curated and produced by Jennifer Schmidt Public Art Project Davis & Union Squares, Somerville, Massachusetts Saturday, April 12th & Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 10am-1pm : Davis Square, Gathering Area 3pm-6pm : Union Square, Gathering Area Exhibition Project Space Gallery School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 230 The Fenway, Boston MA 02115 Dates: April 11 - April 21, 2008
Curator and Oranizer Jennifer Schmidt's statement: “Event Horizon” is a public art project that seeks to create a site for inquiry into the nature of current events and history through the use of print media, performance, and individual interpretation. Artists within “Event Horizon” interpret and represent topics, headlines, graphics, and text found in widely circulated newspapers, broadsides, and fliers to produce creative, critical, and poetic interplays in the form of printed posters and broadsides. The reader’s ability to translate and creatively respond to “popular” issues will underscore a story or subject’s meaning, thereby exposing “the style” of interpretation as a determinant element of how events or topics are individually understood and communicated to a larger public.
Traditionally hung in public places to announce news and events to the public, broadsides locate information within a locality of interest, while creating a visual tableau, indexing issues within a splayed format. Physically unbound, the broadside references the loose sheets of a newspaper, with large type and simple script, easily read by the passerby, to be papered and hung on poles, store windows, buildings, and folding displays.
Using print media as a means to create a backdrop for the projection of ideas and opinions, “Event Horizon” recontextualizes current events within a staged setting of signage and performative happenings. By situating themselves within a public place, calling and handing out their print media, participating artists will be inad-vertently quoting other historical and contemporary performance traditions, including: towncrier, soapboxer, street performer, mystic, publicist, recruiter and activist. The public is invited to engage notions of the “news-worthy” through absurdist, practical, educational, comic, mundane, and dramatic presentations of topical material.
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