INSIDE OUT ... A Global Art Project.

[Keith]

I'd vaguely heard somewhere recently about about this project and then tonight my friend Lubi, who is the curator at the arts college I get the odd gallery opening gig with, showed me this site with the imbedded Vimeo clip.

Well worth a look and I'd be curious to hear what people think of JR's work and this project. LINK

There's also a rather lengthy video at the TED site ... he was the most recent recipient of the TED annual award.

 

[dave lackey]

Already on it... hopefully, the efforts here will unfold in the coming weeks/months.

Really a great idea and thanks for the post.🙂

 

[Shane Guthrie]

Art challenges Tunisian revolutionaries (Al Jazeera)

Art challenges Tunisian revolutionaries (Al Jazeera)

Inspiring use of photography – see the Al Jazeera reports with photos online.

It makes me think that the photos will bring people in to the destroyed buildings, and makes use of that broken space.

How might your own photos be used in street exhibits?

The new material is here:

Art challenges Tunisian revolutionaries
The Artocracy project, featuring photos of ordinary Tunisians, has proven art can be just as provocative as politics.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/201132223217876176.html

And the older ones:

Slums as artistic canvasses

The 2011 TED Prize, an award given by a progressive California nonprofit organisation for the sake of world betterment, has been given to JR, a guerilla artist who installs his works in slums and refugee camps

http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries/general/20101020185628274657.html

Wow

 

[Lancaster]

A very interesting project.

I followed the link in the OP, there are now quite a lot of pictures uploaded.

Any RFFers there?

 

[dave lackey]

A very interesting project.

I followed the link in the OP, there are now quite a lot of pictures uploaded.

Any RFFers there?

Yes, and no. I tried to get the local art community (read that as the rich and influential muckety-mucks) to even watch the video/read about the project/talk to me for a few minutes... and just got blown off!😡

To hell with them. I have no patience for arrogance.😛

 

[Lancaster]

Dave,
So you didn't send a portrait in to have it blown up to poster size?

 

[dave lackey]

No, I did not. As with any project I work on, there must be a vision first. I had hoped to discuss what the City of Newnan would like to accomplish with this project and, of course, my fears were realized when they did not even respond after saying they were so busy and would get back to me in a week.

Now a month later, I am glad I did not waster JR's resources to send in a photo that will not be used.🙄

 

[Lancaster]

No, I did not. As with any project I work on, there must be a vision first. I had hoped to discuss what the City of Newnan would like to accomplish with this project and, of course, my fears were realized when they did not even respond after saying they were so busy and would get back to me in a week.

Now a month later, I am glad I did not waster JR's resources to send in a photo that will not be used.🙄

I don't know what you tried to do but JR would not ask for the City's approval, nor the endorsement of "the art community".

This is wild stuff, just do it.

I sent portraits of three local shopkeepers (with there knowledge). I'll paste them in the street. 🙂

 

[Darshan]

My apologies folks but I don't get the point of this project.

Are these photos of people living in the community where they will be posted? If so, why? If not, why would I want to look at some stranger making weird faces?

I can see the attraction being the big poster sized photograph (besides the commotion they cause while putting up the posters).

I believe it will help to serve some political, religious or social agenda, if it's designed to serve something else, please tell me.

Again, I am not here to offend anyone, I just want to understand the idea behind this project. Kudos to the project developers for making it this big.

 

[dave lackey]

Essentially, the project is to raise awareness of a particular community/need/problem, etc. Just wasting the costs of printing and shipping of a poster is not what the project is about.

In my case, I wanted to have the local art community decide how to participate by deciding what issue/person/etc. should be addressed. It is not about posting silly faces for the sake of posting silly faces. There must be a reason to do it.

Without a direction or reason to expend money and time, I elected not to do anything.

If, for example, the community wanted to raise awareness of child abuse, homelessness, drug problems, whatever.... then, printing and posting the posters would make a great project. Every time someone saw a poster and read about it in the paper, then, the awareness level would have been raised. Hence, changing the "world" in our little corner.

This community is evidently too busy or self-serving to talk to someone who is not in their circle. Hopefully, others will have better luck.🙄

 

[Darshan]

Without a direction or reason to expend money and time, I elected not to do anything.

My point exactly.

If, for example, the community wanted to raise awareness of child abuse, homelessness, drug problems, whatever.... then, printing and posting the posters would make a great project. Every time someone saw a poster and read about it in the paper, then, the awareness level would have been raised. Hence, changing the "world" in our little corner.

I am all for this kind of a project and if ever such a need arises, will happily invest my own time and money. But to deliver such a message, you need posters that "speak", not just headshots of people making faces!