nothing happened here

situational curation

So Much Happened Here

Wrap-up of our summer interventions:

Reading In Public (RIP)
Reading In Public (RIP!) was formed to celebrate the written word by way of community performance in public spaces.

-- We were mobile. We read. We laughed. We smiled. We determined reading is not a lost Art.

www.readinginpublic.com

Flash Mobs (more to come!)
Weddings, and donuts, and reading - oh my!
http://nothinghappenedhere.com/happy-donut-retro-formal

Installations
High-heeled Alley
http://nothinghappenedhere.com/go-see-bubblegum-alley

Public Displays of Affection
Portable Dance Assembly
-- Taking choreography into public spaces, Drew Silvaggio and the dancers of the Civic ballet of San Luis Obispo hit the streets and brought a series of performance pieces in unexpected places in downtown San Luis Obispo.

and others:
Guerrilla Art show

More Flash Mobs:

Press:
Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/reading-in-public.html

Apartment Therapy's re_nest
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/books-guides-resources/reading-in-public-092560

Gapers Block, Chicago
http://gapersblock.com/bookclub/2009/08/25/reading_in_public/

Situational Curation:

We formed our own collective of ephemeral art interventionists.

http://nothinghappenedhere.com/

-- Nothing Happened Here is a full-circle gesture to place art in an entirely unusual and unexpected context. All we leave behind are smiles.

THANK you for a phenomenal summer.

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Los Angeles Times' Jacket Copy article about RIP

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Read the article here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/reading-in-public.html

Thanks Carolyn!

Credits:

:: Our reading parking space is an homage to the ReBar Groups PARK(ing) project

:: Readers in photo: Mauria Lynn Betts and Heidi Harmon, photo/Catherine Trujillo

Call for Audience: PDA

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Portable Dance Assembly (PDA) - our interpretation of public displays of affection!
WHAT:
Taking choreography into public spaces, Drew Silvaggio and the dancers of the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo are hitting the streets to bring you a series of performance pieces in unexpected places in downtown San Luis Obispo. 

WHEN:
Saturday Aug. 22, 2009

MAP:

http://bit.ly/qtsai

What is Art?

Whatisart

Hannah

Hello friends,
We want to throw this out into the art universe to see if it can be answered.
What is Art?
We have had interesting responses to some of our projects already and I am hoping you can help with another, even if you don't have any artistic abilities...we still want your opinion. (sketch, paint, photograph, compose, write, whatever!)

Help us answer:
http://slo.craigslist.org/ats/1326914310.html

(deadline: Monday Aug. 24, 2009)

See the Reading Chair at Steynberg Gallery in SLO

Sit, read and sip on a cup of tea or coffee!

The Steynberg Gallery is hosting the Reading in Public chair designed by Chris Allen.
1531 Monterey St
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-2927
(805) 547-0278

Snap a photo reading!
There is a disposable camera in the RIP chair's ottoman, or you can e-mail a photo from your own camera or cellphone to:

Do drop us a note and let us know what you think of the project,

THANK you readers, viewers and Peter Steynberg!

About:
Reading In Public (RIP!) was formed to celebrate the written word by way of community performance in public spaces. The project began as a response to the shifting landscape in publishing, and the realization that more and more of us are writing in public, as bloggers and tweeters, for instance.

Similarly, we seek to broadcast words in public, through the simple act of contemplative reading on a noisy street corner, or as performance, with readers directly engaging onlookers. On Saturday, August 1st, we held a one day event in San Luis Obispo, California, the first of many that we hope to do. We wheeled this, our Reading Chair, which was specially designed for the occasion, to various downtown locations, where assigned readers took turns sitting and reading. Our readers were people of all ages and walks of life who shared a passion not only for words, but for story telling. Some of them submitted an online application, and some were invited to read. They chose their own reading materials and crafted their own performances.

Details of the project are at:
&
Flickr set about the chair
&
Our Website:

images courtesy of: www.myspace.com/steynberggallery 

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Happy Donut Formal

Our Sunshine Donuts retro "Flash Mob" resulted in irrelevant (or was it irreverent?) 1950s donut glamor. 

In the end, there were lots and lots of smiles. 

Thank you to our donutters
Mignon, Cate, Cruz, Vanessa, Amy, Ashley, Pedro, Sara, Lupe and Hannah!

Plates by Mignon Khargie

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