This blog belongs to the Art In The Everyday course at Eastern Connecticut State University which explores everyday life experience through various frames of reference, including: sound, ephemeral sculpture, movement and community building.
Monday, March 15, 2010
No name yet... Lauren, Tara, Olivia, and Brittany
We chose to do our monument on Main Street to involve the people of Willimantic. Our goal for this monument is to interact with the people of Willimantic and get their opinions on the city.
Sorry this is late! We had some issues trying to post it. We all came up with this idea to ask people of Willimantic to be opart of the statue. Because, what better why to represent Willimantic, than the people who live there? We'll also get their opinions to better understand what kind of people live there.
Hopefully on a warm day our group will stand near this cylinder and ask people who walk by if they'd let us take a picture of them on top of it, like Brittany is in our picture. We are aslo going to bring with us blank sheets of paper and a marker and ask the people to write/draw what ever they want on it so it's like their own plaque to the monument of themselves.
Each group in the class began by posting a photograph of a potential "monument" site here in Willimantic, CT. Comments about the place accompanied these preliminary images. Then, each group's proposed temporal monument was performed/ made/ constructed, on or around April 8. Results posted to the left.
"Roadside Monument"
posted by Alex Moshier
from "Walking in the City," by Michel de Certeau
The story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They weave places together. They are not localized; they spatialize. See the Class's own Maps of Meandering>>>>>
Sorry this is late! We had some issues trying to post it.
ReplyDeleteWe all came up with this idea to ask people of Willimantic to be opart of the statue. Because, what better why to represent Willimantic, than the people who live there? We'll also get their opinions to better understand what kind of people live there.
Hopefully on a warm day our group will stand near this cylinder and ask people who walk by if they'd let us take a picture of them on top of it, like Brittany is in our picture. We are aslo going to bring with us blank sheets of paper and a marker and ask the people to write/draw what ever they want on it so it's like their own plaque to the monument of themselves.
ReplyDeleteHey guys, I'm not in your LAP class, I'm in the other one, but I checked out your location and idea for your monument and it looks AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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