Previous and Ongoing (Fringe Projects)

Treating the city of Miami as a platform, Fringe Projects are temporary public artworks that integrate, investigate and interrogate Downtown Miami's less conventional spaces. 

Because of the similarity, I thought it would be good to look at past and ongoing fringe projects. Maybe to possibly partner with, or have Amanda (curator) come to class one day and have conversation about how the projects were chosen, their role in public space, ect. I also think it's a good model to look at, for ex: their name, ect as a collective of showings. Even thought they are scattered across the city, how everyone relates it back to fringe. How that, becomes an identity of sorts. How would we identify ourselves and make cohesive if we were to simulatneously also have projects that expand the boundaries of our space (Casa Lin) 

Also, to consider reaching out to their sponsors for possible further funding for ours. ($)

http://www.fringeprojectsmiami.com/







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New York-based artist  David Brooks investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world, while also questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized. Having spent many years exploring the watery wildernesses of South Florida, Brooks has come to see the region as one of the most prescient testing grounds in  understanding a society’s relationship to the built and natural environment. On the occasion of this public commission the artist spent a consecutive number of days documenting portions of the barrier and patch reefs in close proximity to downtown Miami. Through the use of large layered billboards that post the daily goings-ons of the reefs Brooks visited, he treats the billboard as a device in the service of journalism. Here the monumentally scaled imagery presents 3 actual moments in time for the coral, including evidence of their now common bleaching phases due to deterioration in water quality and intensified warming – alongside their formal beauty and dwindling biodiversity from human impact. The billboards might appear to the viewer as incomplete or damaged, as large circular areas of the structure have been extracted. The deleterious impact the circular cutouts have on the images make them that much more difficult to interpret – analogous to the stresses society imposes upon other life within our environs, regardless of our inabilities to perceive them as such.

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It Takes Two, 2013. Generator, fabric, acrylic paint, thread, motor. 

Site: Vacant lot at North Miami Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets, Miami, FL 33136

It Takes Two features two 18-foot moving inflatable elements, one looking like a giant hammer and the other a giant nail. Just like the ‘dancing’ tubular figures you see in front of used car lots, the hammer and nail would move, rising and falling in a humorous fashion, next to one another so as to appear as if the hammer is trying to hit the nail and the nail is dodging the hammer. This perpetual dance between these two iconic symbols of construction and progress will serve as a greater metaphor about cooperation. Situated in an empty lot in the midst of rapid development, both impending and recent, the viewer is also reminded of the site's state of flux by traces of the original foundation of a structure on the site revealed by a footprint of MiMo style architecture in pastel shades of  pink and green terrazzo.     

“I hope for the piece to appear like a comedic slapstick duo with their infinite back- and-forth movements, while also commenting on the rapid commercial development of the downtown Miami area. As in a lot of my work, I like to apply subtle changes to easily recognizable imagery to create humorous scenarios that also carry a degree of criticality.”  -Daniele Frazier 

Commentary:

I thought the introduction of pneumatic structures could be a good way to make a structure have body and take up space, but also be temporary (based on our conditions) And maybe even be performative? Maybe the structure falls down and is only generated by air for the length of the show, in  way that it starts collapsing as it's ending? (relating back to ephemerality)