JAVIER T??LLEZ: This is Tomorrow
GUEST BLOGGER: Katherine Joiner, PERFORMA
As part of the Creative Time/inSite Public Art Conference: The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, Javier T??llez participated in a panel titled Anti-Spectacle/Spectacle where he discussed his upcoming project. As part of Creative Time’s Six Actions for New York, T??llez plans to loose a brigade of miniature robots at the New York Stock Exchange at the end of this month. The robots will be carrying placards written by various homeless residents of NYC. As part of his practice, T??llez often begins his projects by working with patients at mental hospitals, in part to question the societal and linguistic ideas of normal versus pathological. In the upcoming project, titled This is Tomorrow, T??llez draws on the writings of homeless people to raise similar questions of social mores and to communicate to those present at the Stock Exchange the ideas of people with whom they would not normally interact.
Conceptual aspects aside This is Tomorrow sounds as if it will present an amusing spectacle worth participating in. Although the official details are yet to be announced, it is tentatively scheduled for May 30th. For those interested, check in at the Creative Time website:
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/performance/tellez.html
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Posted by Guest Blogger | Monday, June 4th, 2007 |
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