2011 Updates to grahamprojects.com

Website updates - 2011 projects added! Check em out:

New project galleries:

The Arcade Parade, openhousenewyork
Vistaflow Tower, Tinges Commons
New Public Sites - Drifting Monument, Pedestrian Service Exquisite / Transmodern
Urban Surface Map - campcamp Tapeway + Tri-Flags, Current Space / Transmodern
New Public Sites - Arlington Drift, Arlington Art Center

You can also now "+1", "email", "like", "tweet" and "post" grahamprojects.com.  In addition, I have added a subscription box for my email list. Sign up! See the social media section on lower left of the homepage.

Infinite freedom for the holiday season!

 - Graham

Arcade Parade a Wandering Success

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Arcade Parade on Saturday, October 15th. Together the F-POPS team, Hungry March Band, and over one hundred people festively wandered through Midtown's largest network of privately owned public spaces. Under LeWitt stripes waving, the Arcade Parade fomented the Social Life of these Small Urban Spaces through festive music, critical observation, site specific play and interventionist sound. Through blocks played and plazas performed, Holly Whyte Way is cemented as path and place.





More pictures and info about Friends of Privately Owned Public Space at f-pops.org.

Special thanks to the 27 backers on kickstarter and the many other voluneteers and supporters who helped make the Arcade Parade possible.

Organizers: Brian Nesin, David Gryder, Graham Coreil-Allen, Christina Kelly, Elena Volkova. Performers: The Hungry March Band, the children on scooters, Simone and Claire Ghetti

The Arcade Parade / 10.15.11 / 11am / Midtown-NYC [updated]

Join us on Facebook and visit our KICKSTARTER page to help make this parade a success!

Download your own Holly Whyte Way SELF-GUIDED TOUR here.

Arcade Parade
Holly Whyte Way Dedication
October 15, 2011, 11am-12:30pm
Starting at AXA Plaza
151 West 51st St, New York, 10019

Join us in Midtown New York on Saturday, October 15th for the Arcade Parade, a free pedestrian tour through a series of little-known shortcuts composed of privately owned public spaces. Between 51st and 57th Streets and 6th and 7th Avenues, there exists an exciting, if unfinished, network of privately owned public spaces (POPS) provided by developers in exchange for additional floor area within the buildings above. Friends of Privately Owned Public Space (F-POPS), in conjunction with the West 54th/55th Street Block Association, and openhousenewyork, is promoting the individual spaces along the parade route as a single entity called Holly Whyte Way. William "Holly" Whyte was an influential urbanist whose books and films championed the substance of successful public space. In addition to enlivening these midtown arcades, F-POPS also seeks to increase their visibility and accessibility by connecting the spaces along the parade route with crosswalks. The proposal for crosswalks has been approved by the Community Board and is now being studied by the NYC Department of Transportation. The Arcade Parade will mark the dedication of Holly Whyte Way through a series of festive events along the nine-block parade route, including presentations of architecture and history by architects Brian Nesin and David Grider, episodes of play from artists Graham Coreil-Allen and Christina Kelly, a moment of site-specific sound by Simone and Claire Ghetti, and raucous music by the Hungry March Band!

Friends of Privately Owned Public Space is an organization dedicated to the celebration and improvement of New York City’s eighty-two acres of POPS. A collaborative of architects, artists, and community leaders concerned with the civic realm, F-POPS seeks to raise public awareness of the existence and purpose of these unique spaces.

f-pops.org / ohny.org / grahamprojects.com

Announcing The ARCADE PARADE!

October 15 / 11am / Midtown NYC...details to follow....

Vistaflow Opening at Tinges Commons

Check out these pictures from the Vistaflow opening at Tinges Commons!

Vistaflow opens Sunday, July 10th, 4-7pm

Marking the grand opening of its new water/watch tower, Tinges Commons announces, "Vistaflow", a permanent social sculpture by Joshua Wade Smith and Graham Coreil-Allen and temporary painting installation by Ryan Neely.

Vistaflow
July 10 - August 27, 2010
Tinges Commons

Opening reception and garden party
July 10th, 4:00 - 7:00pm
Rain date: July 17th, 4:00 - 7:00pm

June 24, 2011 - Tinges Commons presents Vistaflow, a combination water and watchtower by sculptors Joshua Wade Smith and Graham Coreil-Allen and kiosk painting installation by artist Ryan Neely. Constructed entirely of reclaimed materials, the elevated platform and cistern will feed a gravity-fed, garden irrigation system while serving as public observation deck and hangout spot. Participants are invited to climb, stand, sit and relax on the site-specific, pedestrian furniture while enjoying a ceremonial demonstration of the new watering system. Meanwhile, the adjacent Kiosk will feature a wrap-around painting of geometric abstraction derived from the tower architecture and surrounding public space. Food from the garden will be served and all are welcome.

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. The site of organic interaction is sponsored by the Better Waverly Community Organization, Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Parks and People, John Hopkins University and Charm City Cakes.

Contact:
Graham Coreil-Allen
917-683-5922
detourne@gmail.com

Graham Projects at Transmodern 2011

With nearly 200 participating artists and a sprawling campus of art sites around west, downtown Baltimore Transmodern has begun! This year I am involved with two of the many shows and events: campcamp and Pedestrian Service Exquisite. This festival represents and incredible array of Baltimore's finest in underground performance. More info at transmodernfestival.org.

campcamp
April 29 & 30, evening/nighttime

Current Space courtyard
421 North howard street (rear - tyson alley)

An exterior exhibition and interactive multi-disciplinary installation for which no prior survival experience is required for participation. Artists will create environments or installations that embrace the participatory and the habitable while expanding on standard campsite deliverables. Organized by Marian April Glebes, in collaboration with Fred Scharmen and C. Ryan Patterson.

USM-campcamp Tapeway
A site-specific map of paths, thresholds and gateways made from adhesive tape. Streaks of colorful artist tape trace movement among campcamp sites.
Tri-Flags
Four colorful flag tripods mark entry into campcamp.





Pedestrian Service Exquisite

May 1, 12-3pm

H&H Building & Surroundings

405 West Franklin Street

May Day is our day of merrymaking to celebrate re-generation, renewal and creation! It is in this spirit, that Pedestrian Service Exquisite (PSE) presents an afternoon of urban safari featuring performance, action, and revelry on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Expect tours, interventions and participatory site-specific works that celebrate regeneration, sustainability and notions of creating anew!

NPS - Drifting Monument
During 15 minute tours that explore some of downtown’s invisible sites and overlooked features, participants will be invited to fill up a wagon with symbolic litter, discrete mementos, entertaining debris and anything else deemed valuable. At the end of the tour, the drifting collection will be deposited around a monument of labor and place. All participants get a free button!