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)

LAND COLLECTIVE. two projects

Infrastructure Crossing Competition

Vail, CO

"In 2010, David Rubin, then partner at Olin, led the international design collaboration of Buro Happold, London, Explorations Architecture, Paris, and Applied Ecological Services, Philadelphia, in a proposal for a modular, adaptable wildlife crossing – one capable of being deployed across the nation and under a variety of circumstances by Departments of Transportation in any state. The vision, “Wild-(><)ing”, is based on a donut-like toroid shape from which unique configurations can be selected for any site. Into the resultant “pringle” form, a grid of adaptable and reusable diamond-shaped modules are inserted, containing landscape elements which, in their positioning, establish ecotones familiar to the mega-fauna in need of safe crossing, creating a feeling of “normalcy”. The result is an iconic and adaptable crossing that fosters connectivity in animal migratory patterns and separation from economically important transportation corridors."

"A collaboration with Digsau and Liberty Property Trust, this new pocket park at the Philadelphia Navy Yard establishes a social space where there formerly was none. The brownfield site will be remediated prior to construction of a new biotech company headquarters for Adaptimmune, whose mission is focused on finding a cure for cancer.

An existing electrical substation structure presented challenges for the design of the new central plaza. Substation 664 supplies a majority of the energy for the Philadelphia Navy Yard. LAND COLLECTIVE chose to celebrate the substation’s enormous contribution of energy by incorporating a simple aluminum edge with an embedded led light strip to frame the building – we channeled our inner Dan Flavin. The glowing blue light acknowledges the energy within while simultaneously allowing the building to become part of the design composition for the plaza.

A series of green and plaza spaces between the new headquarters buildings and 664 activate space for public use, and complement the architectural design. The project aims to create spaces for innovation outdoors, where both workers and visitors can engage in conversation, collaborate, and draw on the talent and inspiration of adjacent vibrancy at the Navy Yard. The pocket park also creates a visual amenity which is visible from the upper level of the building"

http://land-collective.com/projects/351-rouse-navy-yard/
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LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative) is a project that shows how innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, culture, and the expanding role of technology in art can help shape the aesthetic impact of renewable energy on our constructed and natural environments. This essay explains their solution-based social practice and energy art. I am also adding the link to their website if you are interested ;), where you can see more of their macro installations in the landscape. 

(Essay)

Public Art of the Sustainable City (2010)     

Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian

LAGI Founding Co-Directors

(Blog)

http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/     

(Website)

LAGI (Lahttp://www.landartgenerator.org/project.htmlnd Art Generator Initiative)   

PARKCYCLE SWARM ---- N55 Collective

PARKCYCLE SWARM is a a project of modular system of bicycle gardens. It is a reevaluation of urban planning methods.

 "The PARKCYCLE SWARM is a modular system that empower persons to build an instant public park whenever and wherever they want to. The PARKCYCLE SWARM consists of a number of human powered mobile gardens. The individual gardens can be combined to form public parks. A PARKCYCLE SWARM can consist of any number of individual gardens. Areas normally used by cars like parking lots or roads in general can be reclaimed and used for non polluting peaceful social activities instead. Each vehicle has been designed to comply with local bicycle standards. The version showed in this manual fits the EU standards of bicycle design. Adaptations to local regulations in other parts of the world may be necessary and can influence the size of each individual cycle"


 

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