Artifacts from the Vernacular Urban Landscape by Peter Calvin
“Working primarily in downtown Dallas, Texas, I have been looking at signs and text (particularly the hand-painted), small, marginal and/or closed businesses, parking lot kiosks and pay boxes, and I am beginning to look at the other spaces and resources we set aside for automobiles, and how […]
The Thought ProjectLife-Snaps by Simon Hoegsberg
“Over a period of 3 months I stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking about the second before I stopped them.”
St. Simon Against the Ants
“Ants harass the city and ruin the crops. They have devoured more than one heavy-sleeping Christian via the navel.
In extraordinary session, Havana’s authorities resolve to ask the protection of a patron saint against the bibijaguas and other fierce ants.
Before the Reverend Alonso Alvarez, lots are drawn among the twelve apostles. […]
Irish Travellers, Ballyfermot, 1964
Roma (Gypsies) and policemen, place and date unknown
The Ottawa Art GalleryOff Grid8 April 2005 to 5 June 2005
“Off Grid is an arts presentation devoted to the margins of urban culture, including graffiti, gangs, consumer excess, detritus, and street interventions. The project will explore alternatives to and subversions of mainstream culture through a thought-provoking program of performance, visual and media art. It will […]