the cowboy and the cleaning lady

We are Here : perception, experience, movement, production

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http://hereworkshop.wordpress.com/

Art in urban context ?

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Urban centrum

Violations?

"Safe grounds"

Personalization

is it a game?

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Real-life (fantasy) role-playing game like "Dungeons&Dragons" with notional miniature scenery..

> Dices - causality. (resolving) random events.

> Experience points

> fictional setting

Artist colony game

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http://www.gamefools.com/downloads/ArtistColony/2889.html#

Explore the neglected canvas of a once thriving utopia of artists – the most pioneering creators of their time. Complete tasks and chores to transform the colony and inspire artists to return to this sanctuary of creativity. With specializations in sculpture, dance, music and more, it's up to you to guide each individual as they practice their craft, deepen their skills and create masterpieces in their chosen fields. Guide their relationships, face rivals and uncover the mystery behind the original colonists and their hasty departure.

(only for PCs? - not opening/not working properly. never having a chance.)

"Your artist will be inspired now"

Artistic dictionary

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Potential change

Repetition

Impovisation

(Utopian) idea

Identity

Resources

Availability

Connection

Reach

solution

Production

Possibilities

Question

Strangeness

(Over) explanation

Character

Separation

Agreeing

Functionality

Sincerity

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A landscape devoid of nutrients, soil and/or moisture; see also, overgrazing, slash and burn, deforestation, erosion, scorched earth.

The Wasteland is a Celtic motif that ties the barrenness of a land with a curse that must be lifted by a hero. Some arguments are more convincing than others, however. In one of the more popular works on the subject, From Ritual to Romance, author Jessie Weston suggested that the origin of the motif lie with an otherwise unattested pagan fertility cult. The book is mostly disregarded today, though T. S. Eliot credited it as the source of the title and some incidental symbolism in his famous poem The Waste Land.

(WASTELAND by Wikipedia)

About a Vancouver artist Persimmon Blackbridge:

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http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/learning_disabled_lesbian_cleaning_lady

There is no visiting the territory of the other in order to see what goes on there. We can deal with these as works of art on the understanding that they are also seen as tactical moves in the fields of mental health care, queer activism and civil rights, things which do not merely inform, but to a large extent constitute the framework of Blackbridge’s everyday life. In this light her self-description as a ‘well-known learning-disabled-lesbian-cleaning-lady-white-sculptor-writer-performance-and-media artist is neither as po-faced nor as coy as it might otherwise seem.

This is not the story of a tortured artist

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.. but of a particular life that was spent producing art marked by startling freshness.

http://denersteinunleashed.blogspot.com/2009/08/portrait-of-artist-as-cleaning-lady.html

Living in public space: a human rights wasteland?

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http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/Resources/hlr/docs/goldieLivingInPublicSpace.pdf

Art, space and the city: public art and urban futures, by Malcolm Miles

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http://books.google.com/books?id=tnHqG-Jkep0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false

sandpiper, wagtail and bronze catfish

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Natural role vs. artificial role or a symbiosis?

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.. operating at and looking/fighting for wastelands, discarded areas - (window-)shopping" for zones/territorys/fields.

Wasteland as a growing trend.

There is a wasteland even in Second Life. Is it possible to be an artist there? Is it possible to occupy it?

Nomadic behaviour

Possible artistic roles or equivalents:

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artist as a hero - cowboy/indian/cosmonaut/Pippi Longstocking

artist as a cleaning lady

artist as a homeless person

Research centre / digital library / archive

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