The National Mall got a new memorial yesterday, if only briefly. As part of One Billion Rising, Baltimore-based feminist group FORCE installed a temporary memorial recognizing survivors of sexual assault. The group greated giant letters out of a statement from a rape survivor and floated the eight-foot-tall words onto the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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RBI supports all races, genders, classes, and sizes. We try our best to make this a safe space for everyone. If we are not doing our job or checking our privilege, we invite you to please inform us.
Some of the artwork you see here has been created by our founder or moderators, some sourced when applicable. Please be kind enough to source this blog whenever you share it's content.
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Confessions, public art project, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada by Candy Chang.
For one month, Chang lived in Vegas. Visitors could stop by, enter a booth, write whatever thoughts they wanted to share, and drop the confession into a box that mixed anonymously with other slips. Chang then took the anonymous slips and displayed them on the walls, painting selected responses in white against a larger red canvas background. According to Chang’s website, “This project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for this temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.”
I cannot wait to see this.
A quick summary of my first project. Need to get a better camera for the documentation video, but the one I have will do for now.
Final video documentation of the installation! It went over very well and I’m super happy with the result.
The buttons are finished and everything is ready to go. Going to do my first trial install tomorrow as soon as I finish the interface! Can’t wait to see all the different bodies and stories finally come together.
Six-Forty by Four-Eighty
By Zigelbaum + Coelho
Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation composed of an array of magnetic, physical pixels. Individually, pixel-tiles change their color in response to touch and communicate their state to each other by using a person’s body as the conduit for information. When grouped together, the pixel-tiles create patterns and animations that can serve as a tool for customizing our physical spaces. By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation and new forms for design emerge.
The main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public space. Originally utilizing street posters, LED signs became her most visible medium, though her diverse practice incorporates a wide array of media including bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches and footstools, stickers, T-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, sound, video, light projection and the Internet.
Holzer’s works often speak of violence, oppression, sexuality, feminism, power, war and death. Her main concern is to enlighten, bringing to light something thought in silence and was meant to remain hidden.
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I have done work with LED letters and such things in the past. I love the idea of using simple text in a public space to convey my message but I also want something more tangible, tactile.
I have read her Truisms before, but completely forgot until I just stumbled across her name again.
The Disobedient Dollhouse. 2009-10.
Mixed media installation.
The dollhouse is a toy fondly remembered from my childhood. Countless hours were spent fastidiously arranging the miniature furniture in its rooms. These rooms provided the setting for the domestic scenes myself and my playmates would enact with our dolls — scenes that mimicked the day-to-day household routines of our mothers. This form of play amongst young girls was not only an imitation of the maternal role as we observed it, but, presumably, constituted a type of practice for our future lives as women. Now, as an adult, feminist, artist and mother, I revisit the dollhouse. The idealized view of domesticity that informed my childhood dollhouse is reconfigured by my adult self as a place much more complex, even contradictory, in nature. In stark contrast to the innocuous role-playing of childhood — when one could ‘play Mommy’ — as an actual parent, the actions I take have real life consequences. This simple fact can, at times, be the cause of anxiety. Additionally, while the household provides a peaceful refuge from the hectic pace of the outside world, the daily negotiations between career aspirations and familial responsibilities simultaneously render the house a site of friction and conflict. An exploration of the conflicts that arise from these competing interests was, in part, the impetus behind my installation project entitled The Disobedient Dollhouse.
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Love Songs 2005 - 2007, Installation in five parts
I love love love this woman and her use of typography in her installations. Really wonderful.
Detail, Filia, 1 of 4 sections
Silkscreen on galvanized steel
20 units, 16 x 6.5 x 11.5 inches each
Try Mary Kelly for feminism :)
I did a researched paper on her when I was a student too.She has many good stuff!
This is one of her most famous work
I hope that will help you a little bit.
Goodluck!
Thank you! I am looking through some of her installations now and I really love her work.
Some of the info I’ve found on her so far is really lovely.
Mary Kelly is known for her project-based work, addressing questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory in the form of large-scale narrative installations.
I would love for this project to produce some sort of installation as a culmination of everything I make and/or put into this project.