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The art pieces I have choses are installations. The idea of brining the outside inside. The art invites community to rethink and challenge the use of public spaces.

Mark Bradford: Market > Place
Art:21


Art= signage collage, paints, representation
Activism= dialogue about the use of public spaces,
dominant ideologies shape view and understanding of communities
Technology= systems, language, ideologies



This art piece is inspired by Bradford'smerchant roots. He discuss the working during the Los Angles Riots of 1992-- the media shows volience, they did not see merchants of different trades and cultures in the surrounding community coming together to surpass 6pm work curfews.

First, Bradford makes a collage from found signage (merchant posters, flyers--what Bradford calls informal advertisement.)
Placing signage inside is away of bringing the outside in for an invert look at the ways in which public spaces are used. His goal is to challenge the way people see the community and merchant dynamic culture.

The art aspect of the installation is a representation of the interactive community. Signage is producing bodies and convevrsations. Service, trade, and bodies are all intersecting within a public space socially and economically--
The installation is communicating to people dwelling in the community and people looking in at the community, who recognize and label these bodies without knowledge of the history. It is the oppertunity for those dwelling within the community as well as those merely looking in to visually understand.

The activism in this piece open dialogues of change (racial, sexual, cultural, and stereotypical). Signage collage exposes the conditions and politics of the particular location as well as consumerism. It starts a conversation and gives control back to the public by inviting them to take a glance at the community from within. It is a glance at how the community is represented.

These posters tells the community's history and how certain dominant ideologies have shaped the community. For instance Bradford comments about the Los Angles Riots of 1992.

Mark Dion Neukom Vivarium

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Art 21

Art= re-contextualization of a tree
Activism= rethinking public spaces, creating a new cultural space
Technology= machines, development of more advance economies

Mark Dion's installation involves the uprooting of a tree from its natural ecosystem. It is art that is political. The tree up rooted from the ecosystem is his idea of a perverse act to environmentalism, however, it is done within the context of art. The tree is taken to an hybrid city and housed in a green house. Building a greenhouse for the tree to dwell in simultaneously while situated in the a hybrid city is expensive. Q:What does the tree present? It represents a living bio system. It is the process of watching the tree decay slowly as the city feeds off natural resources and economizes public spaces. Displaying a tree housed in a greenhouse is a form of disturbance and a reminder that pulic spaces are in decay as well as ecosystems. Dion challenges the ways in which we use and conserve public spaces. The tree becomes a cultural place/infrastructure in itself that is maintained by money-- a public cultural space people will want to visit.

The use of technology to build the greenhouse at Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle. It consists of architectural design, irrigation system, cooling system, ect. It highlights the diffuclty of replicated what nature can do as well as the cost associated with construction and infrastructure. This recontextualization depicts the resources and capital put into the city's streets and buildings-- electricity, heat, etc. It challenges the idea that more or as much resources trickle down to the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources which are decapitating economic public spaces.
now is a public space dedicated to culture, art and sculpture

Activistism represented in this art is to challenges the use of public spaces. Buildings in the city are a reaction to bodies-- a new excutive building or a condo goes up as a result of public need but who is really involved in the voting decisions? Neukom Vivarium invites the community to think about the use of public space.

Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public
institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural
world....