Sign Language opens Thursday night!

I have piece in the Sign Language show opening Thursday night at the Whole Gallery. My project consists of flags from a previous project, Distribution Pit Liberation, that I installed in Bushwick in June of 2008. This latest project is a reiteration of two of the original flags from the distribution pit site, now entitled, Distribution Pit Liberation Non-Site.

Sign Language
June 17th-July 19th
Opening reception Thursday, June 17th, 7-9pm
The Whole Gallery
H and H Building, 3rd Floor
405 W. Franklin St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

NPS-MBX Videos now LIVE and in g-space!

This is the full version of the videos I featured at my thesis show, plus title graphics.



Below is my updated NPS-MBX google map, now with videos! Click on video titles to watch in HD.


View New Public Sites - Middle Branch Crossing in a larger map

Light rail/walking tour documentary coming soon...

Call to artists: Odd Beauty at Tinges Commons

Odd Beauty
Signs of Absurdity and Elegance Within
May 30th - July 18th

Tinges Commons Call to Artists

The Youth Dreamers and Tinges Commons are teaming up for a public art show of hand-painted signs. The collaboration between these two Waverly-based groups will focus on the themes of inner beauty and the poetic absurd. Local artists are invited to contribute their own hand-made "Signs of Absurdity and Elegance Within" and/or help fabricate collaborative signs on May 27th and 29th, 2010 at Tinges Commons.

Contact Graham Coreil-Allen if you interested in participating: detourne@gmail.com or 917-683-5922.

May 20th, 3-5pm - brainstorming workshop, YD Dream House
May 27th, 3-5pm - sign fabrication workshop, Tinges Commons
May 29th, 2-5pm - install signs at Tinges Commons
May 30th, 4-7pm - opening reception at Tinges Commons

The Stadium Youth Dreamers is youth-run, after-school program that provides, "a safe & stimulating youth center for the growth & development of young people through youth empowerment." Tinges Commons at Mirkwood Estates is a community garden and collaborative public art space located on the southeast corner of 33rd and Frisby Streets in Waverly.

www.youthdreamers.org/
mirkwoodestates.blogspot.com/

Specter Polis at the Creative Alliance

Opening this Friday at the Creative Alliance, Specter Polis is a collection of short videos focusing on arresting moments of the spectacular sublime as they quietly arise within invisible corners of the city. Videos such as, Natty Boh Utz Girl Billboard Wafting Destruction, Baltimore Heavy Metal Scrap Yard, and Walking on Plastic Reeds capture urban movement, veracity, force, and uncanny calm.

On view May 7- Jun 18
Screening and Artist Talk Thu May 27,
7pm in CAmm Media Lab

Creative Alliance

3134 Eastern Ave

Baltimore, MD 21224

More info here.

New Public Sites - T/MBX

EXPLORE A THRILLING URBAN SUBLIME

Please join me for my MFA thesis show and events, New Public Sites - T/MBX,

April 23rd - May 2nd.

The Typology of New Public Sites (NPS-T) and New Public Sites - Middle Branch Crossing (NPS-MBX) are two interrelated investigations into the invisible sites and overlooked features of our everyday environment. Serving as both field guide and manifesto, NPS-T organizes these liminal public spaces and pedestrian experiences into a system of sites, components and qualities, indexed and described through architectural and poetic terms and definitions. Putting this typological language into action, NPS-MBX explores Baltimore's spectacular southern gateway - the Middle Branch, a majestic amalgam of voids, lost spaces, paths, pauses and vistas.

Opening reception Friday, April 23rd, 5-7pm
Maryland Institute College of Art - Fox Building
1303 Mount Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217

Gallery talk Wednesday, April 28, 1-3pm.

Participants are invited to explore the Middle Branch Crossing through three modes of transit: car, bicycle and light rail. Sweeping back and forth across the I-95/I-395 interchange, the car tour will provide breathtaking zoomscapes of the water below and city beyond. At a slower pace, the bicycle tour will navigate sites of pause south of the stadium, before joining the Gwynns Falls Trail as it skirts the vistas of the Middle Branch's western shore. Heading farther south, the light rail tour will glide over fluid dynamics and unseen fields before culminating in an excursion of radical pedestrianism.

Free NPS-Button and copy of The Typology of New Public Sites for all intrepid participants!

Car - Sat/Apr.24, 2pm

Bicycle - Wed/Apr.28, 3:30pm

Light Rail - Sat/May.1, 2pm

All tours meet at the NPS - Kiosk, Cohen Plaza, MICA
1303 Mount Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD

More info on the tours at grahamprojects.com/nps.

The Typology of New Public Sites in production

Finally, after many months of site analysis, spatial writing, poetic musing and endless layout work, my manifesto on Radical Pedestrianism/"field guide to invisible public space", The Typology of New Public Sites, is finally off in production at Lulu. This was basically the last day I had to get the book uploaded to ensure that it would definitely arrive before my thesis show opens. From my introductory essay on the book:

The Typology of New Public Sites consists of sites, components and qualities indexed and described through terms and definitions both invented and appropriated. The typology not only represents a system of classification, but also a linguistic intervention. Drawing from the fields of architecture and urban planning, the appropriated terms and definitions are repurposed with complete sincerity. In some instances the definitions for these lifted terms remain unchanged, while in others they are altered, recombined or entirely rewritten. Through invented and appropriated language, this reference book/manifesto challenges the authority of how public space is typically represented.

The book will be free to anyone who goes on one of my forthcoming tours. Stay tuned for more details and here are a few teaser pages to whet your appetite....

Anarchy in the Kitchen / NPS-VT-TC

On Friday, March 5th, my latest video performance, New Public Sites - Video Tour - Tinges Commons, will premiere at “Anarchy in the Kitchen,” a Webcast/gastro-performance event featuring work by DC and Baltimore artists. The group show will stream live over the Internet as part of the NYC-based Umami Food and Arts Festival while being simultaneously screened at Eyebeam, The Non Stop Institute of Yellow Springs, Squeaky Wheel, and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC. Please join us for a local viewing party at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County at 7:00 p.m.

“Anarchy in the Kitchen” brings together a diverse group of artists who engage in acts of culinary chaos that interrogate the intersection of edibility and aesthetics, technology and cuisine, and prose and produce. From human sausage grinders and battery-powered lemons to shopping cart gardens and text message meals, “Anarchy in the Kitchen” questions notions of digestibility, consumption, and good taste in our daily interactions with the food system.

“Anarchy in the Kitchen” is curated by Laura McGough and features performances, videos, and sound works by Graham Coreil-Allen, Steve Bradley, Bradley Chriss, Adam Good, Carolina Mayorga, Lisa Moren, Rebecca Nagle, Tim Nohe, Natalia Panfile, Casey Smith, and Shannon Young. An iPhone version of the Webcast will be available for download on March 5th via the Umami website at: http://www.umamifestival2010.com/.

Download the Anarchy in the Kitchen program here.

This is a free event! The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is located in the Fine Arts Building. Parking is available in the lots located behind the Fine Arts Building.

UMBC Fine Arts Building on Google Maps
UMBC Campus Maps

Upon its premiere at Anarchy in the Kitchen, New Public Site - Video Tour - Tinges Commons will exist in two forms, one narrated and the other performed. The narrated version already exists on the internet and consists of my voice-over led video tour. For the performed version, I wore my NPS tour guide uniform as my body was superimposed on top of the video tour. This latter video was my first experiment using the weatherman-like, green-screened performance technique. More details later...