tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88464227152480224772024-02-06T17:29:12.099-11:00Kinesthetic Urban RhetoricThoughts about urban space, public art, everydayness, and the sensorial fabric that makes up our everyday city lifeCaitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-4761089435795154132017-12-29T06:49:00.000-11:002017-12-29T11:50:55.124-11:00Malecolor: Visual Linkages Between Different Generations of Writers, the Possibility of Permission?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dante. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dafne and Yuda. 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zanko (right) 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brote 2017.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Malecón del Rio, a riverbed that cuts through the center
of León, is the primary transportation artery for the city aside from Bulevar
López Mateos, Torres Landa, and Mariano Escobedo. Since the beginning of
writing culture in León it has been a central location for graffiti work, and
during the highly visible battles over public space during the Cero Tolerancía
period it was a key terrain for struggle, serving as an example of the “damage”
of graffiti but also forming the prize for which youth fought, exercising their
“right to the city” by inscribing messages like “Cero tolerancía no pasará”
(Toby 2015; Biers 2015). From 2005 to the present different administrations of
the Youth Institute have tried to make it a legal space. Dafne recounted that
in 2006 there was an event where they tried to paint a long snake stretching
the expanse of the section of the Malecón that links the Puente del Amor to La
Martiníca. “But we didn’t have the organization or the colors unified, and we
were painting on the diagonal walls,” she reflected (Fieldnotes November 2017).
After years of negotiation for permission from the city water authority, SAPAL,
IMJUV secured permission to open up the Malecón for legal graffiti by beginning
with a highly visible event, hoped to become annual, called Malecolor.</span><br />
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Lalo explained to me that Malecolor, unlike the Panteon
project, is more of the “street” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">callejero</i>)
something to unite the writing community across styles and generations, and to
invite people into the “arte urbano” scene who might feel aggrieved or excluded
or uncertain. At the same time the project also would serve as a kind of proof
of capacity to broader publics, perhaps a kind of respectability politics for
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The preparation process for the event was extensive and exhausting.
The Muraleon team had to prime about a half a kilometer stretch of the tunnel,
a process which began while León was still experiencing the effects of an
unusually rainy summer. Wearing rubber wading pants or balancing over the side
of the wall while cars whizzed by on their left or right, the writers were
deeply embedded in the noise and the dirt of what is also a massive drainage
pipe for the city. It was because of the rains that the event, initially
scheduled for mid-September, was moved to mid-November. Because of high levels
of pollution parts of the wall near drain pipes were quickly stained black, and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zhot mixing paint to prime malecón. September 2017,</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uriel priming walls.</td></tr>
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more, simply getting into the riverbed requires some level of agility. One has
to cross the highway, walk along the side while cars whiz past, time your
sprint across so that you don’t get hit by the cars, and then scramble down and
up a gradated concrete slope (the back pocket of my jeans was the main victim
of this itinerary). Finally, there was little protection from the sun, which
also would intensify the effect of exhaust fumes. By the third week of
preparation as the Muraleon team finished their pieces there was a current of
excitement running down the Malecón as different writers shouted “Lista!” “Ready!”
for the upcoming event.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Background elements. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot assignments. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staining. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onza and Zhot paintin Panam logo. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quena's octopus. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ardhe. Lobster and Cuic Carnitas ad. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Truko work in progress. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crook's submarine. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kart's burner. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Lista." November 16, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crook's sea turtle. November 2017.</td></tr>
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In keeping with earlier projects, the team decided on a
unifying theme, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marinero</i> or Sea Life.
The Muraleon writers had drawn mock ups in the IMJUV offices: submarines,
mermaids, sharks, octopus, and fish carcasses decorated the walls of their
shared office and later the walls of the Malecón. Like the Panteon project,
they not only used unifying colors but created a set of background images that
stretched the expanse of the wall including fish, sea turtles, jelly fish, kelp,
and coral reefs, and medium blue ridges throughout to create a sense of being
on the ocean floor. Then the team created their own individual pieces, as well
as some pieces that accompanied the logos of commercial sponsors for the event.
Because IMJUV works with fixed funding new projects require external
sponsorship. Whether that justifies putting an advertisement (KIA, Mazda,
Panam, Mercedes, Corel) alongside a writer’s name is another question. Quena
painted an octopus, Dafne a burner with little cartoon sea creatures, Chuen an
antique diving helmet and fish, Crook a massive sea turtle and submarine, Ardhe
a pixelated lobster (with an abandoned island in the background, “I want peole
to feel like they are in another world,” he said of the piece), Dante a fish
skeleton, Ante a burner, Kart a burner with an octopus poking its tentacles
through holes in the letters, JHard a mechanical fish, Enter a monstruous fish,
Zanko some electric eels. Finally, they created little vertical marks and
crosses to delineate space assignments. The sponsor Panam also videorecorded
painting to do a time lapse video later on. All of this had to be done before
the event began. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen in process. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kart sketch. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaber outline. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crook submarine in process. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jhard in process. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quena in process. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ante in process. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparation. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ante. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparation progress. November 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enter. November 2017.</td></tr>
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It was a tense process. The Muraleon team was charged with “selling
out” by some of the writers, part of the primed wall had been bombed over in early November, and there were threats circulating that illegal
writers would destroy the project as soon as it was done. As a result the team
tried to work fast to establish outlines to deter such action. Lalo gave the
group a pep talk, reminding them that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they
</i>are “custodians of the project, not me. Not the institute.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also insisted that they remember “This is
not an expo, it is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mural.</i>”
(November 7 2017 Fieldnotes) What is at stake in the distinction between the
two? First, again, is a kind of distinction between diversion and high art.
Muralism in Mexico has long been an important medium for circulating
nationalist ideology and communicating questions about collective identity. In
this parsing a mural has more gravitas than an expo. Second, it points to a
deliberate move to shift the vocabulary describing graffiti from graffiti to “arte
urbano” which privileges the aesthetic over the territorial. Third, the
distinction marks a tension or a challenge for this project. While in its
initial conceptualization Malecolor was conceived as being “for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chavos</i>” or the “kids” or “the gang” in a
capacious sense, one can see how due the dictates of external sponsorship and
recognition, and the exigency of aesthetic control, the boundaries of that
public is sometimes being cinched tighter. This tension was apparent in the
occasional silences, and awkwardness that would fall over the group. It is also
apparent in the aesthetic shifts some explored, for instance Kart doing a
letter-based piece that is “more graffiti,” and repeated claims that this is a “graffiti
space.” Were they occupying the space for graffiti culture, or was it a
betrayal that desecrated this sacred graffiti space?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Local writers were invited to start their pieces early, and
as a result I met Gaber who paints a kind of Katrina/Monster hybrid that to me
looks very much like a Where the Wild Things Are monster, as well as Danz,
Menos, and others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the preparation, which is of a more relaxed
temporality than the event itself, writers would reflect on the importance and
the history of the space. Ardhe, among the Muraleon team is one of those who has
been writing longest reflected, after showing me a sketch of a lobster on his
phone, that the site is “a really important spot…lots of writers want to paint
here because when it [graffiti] began, it was here…” (November 8 fieldnotes).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being in the Malecon is somewhat like being underwater. Because
when you walk in the Malecon the walls to both sides surround you, and the
sound of whooshing of cars creates an auditory bubble where, for me at least,
created similar kinds of ear drum pressure that I feel when under water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were about 100 local writers, and 40 writers from
other cities in Mexico. Dafne was in charge of coordinating visitor travel (bus
tickets, hostel rooms, transit within the city). Interestingly, many of the
visiting guests were part of Mixer Crew, the group that is responsible for
Meeting of Styles Mexico and a new series of programming in Guadalajara/Jalisco
with Galeria Monumental. Members of the 360 paint team were also represented.
Secreto Rebollo, Gerso, and Reak were three high profile writers from Mixer and 360. Merle and a writer from
Tijuana who had been at MOS Tlajomulco de Zuñiga were also there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The event ran from 10am to 6pm on Friday 11/17 and Saturday
11/18, and 11 to 4pm on Sunday 11/19. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each
participant was given a t-shirt with “Malecolor” and their name on it, as well
as a baseball hat, and a bag full of paint with the Paruno logo and Malecolor
on it, as well as a nametag on the back of the malecolor logo. Thus, visual
unification did not only include a shared color palette and theme but also
creating a type of uniform for the writers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supply bags and tshirts. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sign in. Fits and Merle. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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Wes was also painting, and told me he plans to do gothic
letters with an alien style octopus crlimbng around it. Painting between the
bridge supports, he said, is like painting “the entrance to León.” Drunc and Cuate
of BR crew join Crook and paint by his submarine, a naked mermaid and a diver
in a red suit, respectively. After the Friday event was well on its way I asked
Chuen what he thought so far. “It’s good because it allows people outside of
the Muraleon team to see that graffiti can make more developed things, that it
can be more complicated.” Someone observed that they wished the ads were “not
next to the art, maybe in their own section down away from the wall.” Within the first few hours
of the event there was a lot of anticipation, anxiety, and simultaneously a
moment of amplified public voice but also limits to civic voice within the
framework of institutional sponsorship. By the late afternoon Friday there were
more people, and the atmosphere was more relaxed. I ran into Gaber, and noted
that it was cool that the halo around his character’s head was an octopus leg.
“I try to adapt my pieces to the space—that is what is cool about characters
and harder to do with letters—making it be part of the site.” In an interview
with Astre, a member of SKC crew, he emphasized the importance of the Malecon,
and the need for the municipality to open up more spaces. As the sun turned
golden and lowered the Mixer crew was jokingly wrestling and laughing near the
overpasses, people are perched on ledges watching the painting and chatting,
drinking beers—this is a scene that was common after Miercoles Tagger (a weekly meeting of writers during graffiti's early days in León), easy
occupation of the space.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DF based crew in progress, November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixer crew in progress. November 1, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bote in progress. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wes outlines. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixer crew-- sea horse. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rise doing outlines. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 1. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Merle doing outlines. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening, day 1. November 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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Saturday felt more formal, with all of the IMJUV logos and
banners set out by the check in table and rumors that the mayor was coming. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Logos out for day 2. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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I chatted
with Reak, part owner of 360 Paint who now lives in Queretaro. “This is a
really great location,” he noted, “and I hope that it becomes a permission
space. There are some spaces in DF, in Wynwood (an abandoned <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bodega</i> near the highway), in Frankfurt
near the trains, but a space like this—so long and continuous—this would
absolutely decrease the amount of illegal graffiti because it is so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vistoso/</i>visible<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and would require just minimal regulation.” (November 18 Field
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturday morning view from under Puente del Amor. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skum and Cuate in progress. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siter in progress. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kritik in progress, November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Puerk reminded me that the era of police discrimination did
not end with the end of Cero tolerancia, but continues against </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">chavos guangos</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, who are dressed a
certain way connoting poverty.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixer crew in progress day 2. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I stood watching the guys paint for a while, and then
realized there was a hubbub in the middle of the corridor around a tall man in
denim—the mayor. It was a press conference where he was being led on a tour of the event.
Most of the Muraleon team took turns explaining different pieces to him,
pointing them out, or introducing him to visiting artists.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayoral tour, talking to Merle. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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As a good politician,
he took turns shaking each person’s hand as he was followed by a large coterie
of reporters, aids, and colleagues. Charly handed me a Muraleon baseball cap
(everyone was wearing one), grinning. The IMJUV staff too, followed, their
media folks in a clump with the reporters. As before, Zhot and Brote were the
primary ambassadors to the mayor, and they would occasionally call other
members of the team forward—Dafne or Crook—to explain their pieces. He even
stopped by Wes’ mobile shop to hold and look at spray cans, and was offered the
chance to use a bit of spray paint.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Santillana, Brote, Wes. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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After he finished the tour the mayor stood in a circle with
the Muraleon team and Lalo telling them congratulations. Zhot aksed if he could
help facilitate the visiting artists getting entry into Globo Fest, a hot air
balloon festival happening simultaneously. The mayor made a call, explaining to
some contact that they should expect people in the Muraleon caps and badges. Neo
explained a bit about the elements of hip hop and the history of hip hop
“Afrika Bambaata and youth from poverty learning to express themselves,”
perhaps laying the groundwork for justifying the Malecon as the next location
for Barrio Jam. Standing in a cluster, intensely listening, hands on each other’s
backs or shoulders, the team exuded a sense of optimism and energy in the wake
of being seen, heard, and even listened to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the mayor joined the cluster of the press to give a
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“This project is a symbol of the plurality and diversity of
our city…of including people of all classes, no matter their background...and
this project is important for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">artistas
urbanas</i> not only from our municipality, or state, but also from around our
country…and this project gives an important and strong message: that we must
give youth spaces to express themselves, to fortify their creativity, and their
talents…and this also supports foments team work, and at the same time allows
us to dignify (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dignificar el entorno
urbano</i>) the urban environment … to promote this message of respect for the
plurality of people…and also this theme of the ocean, of aquatic life…works with
the understanding of how our Malecon works. When it is filled with a large
amount of water if will appear as if the fish are floating…and the so the
Instituto Municipal de Juvented has worked together with other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dependencias</i> to develop this
manifestation of our youth, of plurality and diversity…we will continue looking
for other spaces, facades of buildings and houses, of the Panteon…so that we
can continue promoting talent, dignification, and respect (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Talento, Dignificacion, y Respecto</i>).”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Again, the Mayor uses the discourse of plurality, diversity,
and inclusion but this time more articulated to youth voice (spaces to express
themselves) and the recuperation of public space. Less tied to a language of
youth energy, instead, he focuses on the Malecolor project being an example of
youth relationality and collaboration, and model of interaction, and a norm of
dignity/respectibility. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And here was have a crucial difference between the protests
of 2002 where youth were taking or demanding space, and youth being recognized
and given space. In Malecolor, the location from which demands are made has
shifted from being external to the state, to being in a liminal space quasi
inside and yet still not fully interior, because the writers do not know with
certainty about the future of the project. Rather than stating that being given
versus taking space are better or worse, what we can perceive is a range of
approaches to models of civic participation that range from the disruptive to
the collaborative. And more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the press event I ran into Neo and complimented him on
his succinct hip hop history summary. He reflected that those who say “graffiti
is illegal” are wrong because in the 1970s in New York they were doing murals,
you can see it in the movies in Style wars and wild style. This is a crucial reminder that illegality is not essential
to the definition of graffiti, it comes later but then becomes internalized.</div>
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By Sunday most of the pieces were close to done, and people
were more eager to talk after sharing the same space for several hours. This
time the Muraleon team was wearing Nascar-style shirts that had "Malecolor" and "Kia" and other ads on them. Many were fatigued after taking the visitors to the
Globos festival both the night before and in the early morning (one has to
leave at 4am to see the 6am inflating and launch of the balloons).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of the participants were there, offering a panorama of
León’s different generations and styles. Old school writers like Ben, Espos,
Doos, and Wes were there, as well as co-founder of Daily Letters Bote, and
former hard core bombers Back and Dermy. This time, however, many had young
children that they had brought to the walls, most between two and five, the
future graffiti generations. There was an intense awareness of the importance
and uniqueness of the event. Back commented that he thought the event was
really good because it “brings all of these different generations together.
Each generation has two or three behind them…you can see the evolution of
graffiti in León here.” Every piece allows you to see different lines of influence
and graffiti networks, and how people visit and cluster, the different
generations of writers but also their children evidencing ongoing evolution,
some tensions but also lots of intimacy, fan publics and auxiliary publics—with
commercial signs but them becoming part of a larger fabric.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By 6:30 pm the Muraleon team is packing up and the light is
fading. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">despedirme</i> and take photos
of the fading light in the Malecon from the Puente del amor, and a photo of the
side of the Malecon not painted—a contrast in different versions of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imagen urbano</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malecon without graffiti. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malecon with graffiti. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">elvis style fish. november 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danz in process. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Merle in progress. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puerk completed. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaber. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onza. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dermy. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mupet. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ers. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bhon. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Espos. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Idem. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Astre. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sirik. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Penril. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New generations. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood 8. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bierck. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doos. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doos in process. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gogue and assistant. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mercedes benz, truko, and brote. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabio. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burner (name unknown) November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">360 Paint wall November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burner. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yuda. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back. November 18, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rise. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wes. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiers. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixer wall. November 19, 2017.</td></tr>
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Thanks to Doos, Lolis, Puerk, Kritik, Ben, Astre, and Gogue
for interviews and to the IMJUV for letting me document the process as well as the rest of the Malecolor participants. Research
support is provided by Fulbright García-Robles/Comexus and the University of
Pittsburgh/CRDF.<o:p></o:p></div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-26217205518535856922017-12-28T10:05:00.000-11:002017-12-28T10:05:21.840-11:00Panteón San Nicolas: Mictlarte and Arte Urbano as Mediating, Conservative and Future Oriented <div class="MsoNormal">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panteon from above. October 2017.</td></tr>
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On October 31 IMJUV inaugurated a new project called Mictlarte.
Drawing from the name of the Aztec god Mictlántecuhtli, who is the god of the
underworld, the walls of Panteon San Nicolas were repainted during the month of
October to represent images of local urban legends, pre-hispanic identity, and
cinematic history. I documented much of the wall production, visiting the walls
a few days a week for an hour or two each visit to take photos of progress,
talk to the writers about what they planned to paint and how the project was
going, and to observe interactions and reactions between writers and passersby.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen. Mictlántecuhtli and Goddess of Plants. October 2017.</td></tr>
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Panteon San Nicolas was one of the principal locations for
earlier high-profile mural projects, and it is a primary example of how the
general public has gotten to know the “arte urbano” movement. For instance,
when I went through customs after arriving in León in August and was chatting
about why I was here, the moment I said “arte muralismo” they said “Oh, like
Panteón San Nicolas.” In 2010 it was painted as part of the City of Murals
project with a focus on Las Katrinas and Posada style engravings as well as
Calaveras. It was painted again in 2013 with some different participants form
the first time around, still with a heavy focus on Las Katrinas. For newer
generations of writers, the Panteon projects served as sources of inspiration.
In conversation with Uriel from the Muraleon team, he said that “I saw Panteon
San Nicolas, the first one, and it was so amazing, wht they were doing. I
wanted to do it too.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year, the Muraleón team decided to do something a
little different. When I interviewed Onza back in September, he told me about a
project in development for the Panteon. He explained: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You know there were two mural projects there before, and
they were very good. But in Mexico, images of Katrinas, it becomes so boring. I
want to do something drawing from “Marcario,” it is a film about death. You
should watch it, its really good. So, we want to do a project outside where
thre is a graffiti sculpture, realism, lights. You know that JHard works with
lights? And Shot does graffiti sculptures. There will be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mes de anticipación</i>, about another month of planning, and we want
it to be opened on the Dia de Los Muertos, 2 de Noviembre. We will involve
chavos in both legal and illegal graffiti.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part of the planning involved extensive digital mockups and
a small design. When I met Dante at the IMJUV offices in 10 de Mayo, he was
working in adobe design, figuring out the placement for the colorful orange and
purple flowers that are so iconic of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Día
de los Muertos. </i>The small 3-D model showed characters from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Macario</i> in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bas relief</i>, along with flowers and candles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lalo Camarena, subdirector of IMJUV and director of the
Diversidy division where Muraleon is situated, explained of the project: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We are doing a new intervention in the Panteon using the
film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marcario</i>, a really famous
Mexican film….this was a theme that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la
banda</i> decided on…to explore how Mexicans deal with death. We are not going
to paint <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Katrinas,</i> no, instead will
will paint <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">leyendas urbanas.” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He noted that the different projects that they are working
on have different processes. The Panteón project is more of a ‘proyecto
ciudadano,” oriented towards a broader public, and Malecolor is more about a
“proceso urbano”, oriented towards the graffiti community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zanko and Onza creating grid. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JHard using airspray machine. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brote's Coatlicue outline. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen creating outline for god figures. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Background for eastern portion of wall. September 2017.</td></tr>
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The team started painting the background for the wall the
last week in September. The background colors were a mix of black, blue, orange
and pink. The wall surrounding the cemetary is massive, probably a quarter
kilometer long and about two stories tall. In the early moments of background
painting the previous Katrina murals were covered with a thin layer of paint,
making them yet more ghostly, with the term “Mural in progress” painted in
small block letters along the wall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mural in process." Quena, Zhot, JHard. September 2017.</td></tr>
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For all of October the team was at the wall most days from
1pm to 7pm. Situated on Boulevard Mariano Escobedo, an extremely busy corridor
for the city, the wall is a space of intense noise, car exhaust and dust, and
strong sun. While the writers painted, a number of pedestrians and bicycle
riders would rush past, streaming around or under scaffolding or ladders. Some
would turn their heads to glance at the wall in curiosity, some pushed past in
frustration.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Zanko and Mersi holding court. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Panteon San Nicolas, Interior. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Panteon San Nicolas. Interior. October 2017.</td></tr>
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In late September the team divided up the wall into
different quadrants using a tool that has a string covered in blue chalk—when
you hold the string flush against the wall and then flick it, a faint straight
line is left behind. Small numbers were written in the quadrants to help the
artists match up the proportions with the physical wall and their
digital/printed design. The wall was covered in broad swathes of paint using an
airspray machine hooked up to a generator that would create lines four to seven
feet thick. JHard was the primary user/director of the machine, filling one
entry way with water, another with paint, or occasionally pulling rubbery
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In addition to creating a grid on the wall, the Muraleón
team began marking outlines for the primary figures in the mural: La Llorona,
the Brujo of San Pancho, Vincenta, Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacithuatl, among
others. La Llorona is a legend about a mother who drowns her children in
revenge against her husband, and kills herself, but remains a ghost, crying and
looking for her children in the river. The Brujo of San Pancho is an urban
legend from León that chronicles a witch who was raised from the dead by the
devil in León’s historic center. Vincenta, or La Novia, is the story of a young
woman about to marry who dies in a flood and is seen to wander the streets of
León, searching for her lost fiancé. , Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacithuatl are,
respectively, the god of the underworld, and the goddess of plants. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">La Llorona. Quena. Leon, GTO. 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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<br />Making the outline required relying on the grid system, a
translation of the digital sketches, but also running across Mariano Escobedo
to the median to get a larger look, or having a colleague stand away and yell
directions, as Zhot did while Quena outlined the arms and hands of La Llorona. Her
section of the wall was tricky because the head of the figure was on the top of
the wall that is on a 45-degree inward gradation. Brote and Zhot, per usual,
have completed their pieces early, Brote with his iconic woman with a star on
the head, and Zhot painting a sleeping woman surrounded by curlicues and
flowers, somewhat like the Virgin Mary, but perhaps not. In addition to
pre-hispanic figures and skeletons or skulls, there were a plenitude of candles
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">velas</i>) and marigolds in purple and
orange. Dafne painted Azolotl, a god who was so afraid of death that he was
condemned to stay in the body of a small sea creature. Crook painted a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nahual,</i> a kind of hybrid lizard/goat
creature. JHard painted a portrait of his late grandmother. Lolis paints a Catrina.
Truko paints his name with a cemetary background. Gryz painted three skulls,
that of a human, a dog, and a cat. Enter painted a skull. Puerk painted an owl.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chuel working on god of the underworld. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Uriel working on La Novia. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dafne. Ajolote. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Zhot working on burner next to sleeping woman. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Brote working on Coatlicue. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chuen at work on god of underworld. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dafne finishing up her Ajolote. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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The core Muraleón team was joined by other writers,
illustrators, and street artists, contributing to a final wall that offered a
diverse range of styles, mediums, and approaches. For instance, Drunk, of BR
crew, painted an image of a woman aging, four faces from childhood to death.
Mau, an illustrator, painted a kind of monster figure. Kiers painted a
geometric letter based piece. Gogue a curving letter piece. Biers does his
gothic letter calligraphy creating concentric semi circles: “El muerto no
existe la gente…siempre estoy contigo.” Ear painted an Aztec warrior on the
inclined upper wall near the gates. Around 40 artists in total painted the
wall. Zefor painted a kind of goblin figure. Mane Aerografica painted a Katrín
(a male Katrina) with lyrics to a popular song, “La vida no vale nada.” Alex
Maraquez painted a calligraphic skull with two yellow circles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Biers CK's gothic letters. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Aztec warrior by Ear. Leon, GTO. 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Katrin by Mane Aerografik. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Artist from San Luis Potosi. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sefor. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Maus. October 2017.</td></tr>
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In mid-October work began on the Marcario section of the
wall, using the airspray machine to paint the middle of the wall black with
blue fades through it. The scenes depicted are where Macario shares the turkey
with Death, and where he tries to grab the candle with the flame of his life
from death, and where he sits on the edge of the bed where his child is deathly
ill. What is novel about this section of the wall is that the faces of two
macarios and one Death are done in bas relief with plastic housing material cut
into the outlines of the heads and mounted onto a metal apparatus welded by
Crook on site to make the heads flush with the bottom part of the wall, away
from the 45-degree lip of the upper wall. This quasi sculptural/architectural
intervention gives the works more dimensionality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Macario image. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kart and Dante planning bas relief. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Digital sketch for Macario panel. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Outline for figure of death for Macario panel. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ardhe working on Death figure for Macario Panel. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Figure of death in Macario panel by Ardhe. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Welding supports for bas relief. Leon GTO. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Installing bas-relief Macario head. Leon, GTO. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Macario in progress. Leon, GTO. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Zhot working on Macario bas-relief. Leon, GTO. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ante completing section of Macario panel. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Macario Panel. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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Because the project took over a month, observations included
not only progress on the wall, but ongoing interactions and reactions from
passersby. At times, particularly after school lets out, or on weekends, small
crowds would gather and eat snacks while watching the painting. On Saturdays
cars slow to watch the painting. At other times pedestrians would provide
direct feedback. “Good job,” directed to me in accented English, some one
remarking “eso es arte, güey!” “this is art, man!” and little kid shout “Mira!”
“Look!” to their parents. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Child observing mural in process. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pedestrian observing Chuen's piece. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street observation. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sleeping woman, La Llorona, Mask, and burners by Mariano Escobedo bus stop. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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It also afforded opportunities to learn more about
the writers. Kart would talk to me about indigenous medicine and the history of
temescal ceremonies, how when Hernán Cortes killed Cuahtemoc it was safeguarded
by the Lakota of the United States, and then returned to Mexico in 1985. Drunk
reflecting that though he usually doesn’t discuss his graffiti practice at
work, people have been saying positive things about the Panteón project, “seeing
it in a more positive way.” Maraquez reflected on way lines creat rhythm in a
piece. The wall was also a point of reunion for friends and family of writers,
one day Mersi’s family came by, another Waxny, a writer more active five years
ago, came to visit her writer friends, and her friend interred in the cemetary,
and I learned about her studies as a criminology student. Ardhe comments on the
eeries aspect of painting the Bruojo by the cemetary, how sometimes it gives
him goosebumps. Another day a local historian, Alvarado Alejandri, was studying
Chuen’s god and goddess. After I said I was told it was the god of the
underworld he asked: “Have you gone to see it?” he asked me. “It is near
Mexico, the Rio Lerma . many people think it is the caverns but it is actually
the river. You can go see it near here. It is in Valle de Santiago, the Montana
del Colhuacan, between Salamanca and Celaya, and it is really civilzed. If you
go on the website ofr Amigos de la Montana you can get a lot of information. It
is called the Lake of blood sometimes because it turns red before earthquakes.
The scientists don’t listen because they have geological sensor devices but
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Gogue. Leon, GTO. October 2017. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">East side of Panteon. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Detail for Zanko's mask. Leon, GTO. 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Truko. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hidro. Leon, GTO. 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Altar by Crook. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Drunc. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Flores de naranja and portrait of JHard's abuela. Leon, GTO. 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Zanko working on Japanese style mask. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Siter's Katrin, Gryz's dog, cat and human skull, Kiers' production. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">JHard at work on portrait of his abuela. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Panteon from above. October 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Zhot's sleeping woman. September 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Danz's production. October 2017.</td></tr>
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The inauguration of the project also demonstrated how officials
use such art projects to forward large political/ideological goals. Within the
path of the Panteón about 100 chairs were set up facing a large vinyl poster
that said “Presentation of the Mural Mictali Panteón San Nicolas” with a faded
image of the mural below the text, and chairs for officials. On the left side
of the “stage” was a clearing near graves with mirrors, bouquets of flowers and
lit candles in colorful votive holders, as well as the vertical self-standing
signs that listed all of IMJUV’s programs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Brote's Coatlicue and Crook's Nahual. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most of the artists who had participated in making the mural
stood on the sidelines, some very dressed up, in button down shirts and oxford
shoes, or others simply in jeans and a sweater but without paint marks.
Reporters from Canal 4 interviewed Dante and Lalo.</span></div>
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There were about 140 people watching the opening, a more
mixed group than earlier IMJUV events, including families and youth (about 50
or 60 youth in Halloween costumes).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inauguration venue. October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage area, inauguration. October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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At 5:15 there was a rush of activity as the mayor, the
director of the advisory board for IMJUV, and the director of city grave sites,
the new director of IMJUV entered the gates, surrounded by a cluster of helpers
and press. As with many of the IMJUV events it was MC-ed by a disembodied
announcer who cued the different shifts in the events. After the dignitaries
took their seats, joined by Kart as the representative of the artists, the
announcer welcomed us to the event and explained that it would begin with a
short act of theater. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Macario scene of inauguration. October 31, 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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Moody music played and a young man in a Macario outfit and
face painted as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">calavera</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Katrin</i> entered, and a young woman in a
wedding dress, face also painted as a skeleton. There were some giggles. The
woman introduced herself as La Novia, Vincenta, who was feeling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nostalgica</i> for being separated from
Manolo, her fiancée. Macario tells her “The dead must not feel sadness, but
remember with love.” Vincenta told the story of her tragic death in a flood
when something fell on her and she drowned in “agua fria”, and then her lover’s
suicide. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Uriel. La Novia/Vincenta. October 2017.<br /></td></tr>
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The announcer then told us to applaud the actors, and then
presented the dignitaries. In addition to the mayor, and the director of the
Consejo for IMJUV was the director of the Gender Institute for the city, a
representative for business programming, the director of the Leon Cultural
Institute (ICL), Director General for City Health.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Importantly, Kart was introduced as an “artista urbana,” an “urban
artist” a denomination that has gained in popularity not only in León but
across the republic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The new director of IMJUV, Misraim Macías, opened with a
short statement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Today we dedicate this mural that is an iconic symbol for
the city in celebrating Dia de Los Muertos. The mural has graphic
representations of myths and legends Leon, and Mexico: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Llorona, Cuatlicue, el Katrin, Ajolote, el Bruje de la Funeraria, y
en un manera especial un homenaje al Pelicula Macario en el cual se cuenta en
tres imaganes alrededor el mural</i>…each element tells us a story not of what
was, but what forms our identity as Leonese, such stories as what our
grandparents told us… and what we share today. Moreover, we have elements like
flowers, candles, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Calaveras, letras, y
naranja de temporada</i>, elements of said identity. I want to add three
elements of identity:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talento, juventud,
la pasion leonesa. These three elements build this mural, the artists, the
whole team, and the entirety of Leonese society…and so we celebrate it.” After
thanking the sponsors and partners he concluded: “with projects like this we
are writing a new history for León and we are generating an identity that will
leave its mark.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this statement, Macías forwards the role of “arte urbano”
as key to celebrating and remembering local and national iconography as a means
of solidifying identity. Linking past to present, and speaking to multiple
generations, he figures youth as central to the work of identity creation and
celebration: youth as central to futurity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then, Victor Ayala Kart gave his presentation. He had told
me before that he was a bit nervous, and we talked about some public speaking
exercises for nerves, deep breathing, grounding, etc. He said:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kart delivering speech. October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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“45 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chavos</i>
intervened in this painting of the Panteon. I am going to tell you about how we
developed ideas, how we live as artists, how ideas flow. We developed it for
two months in the office, a month in the street listening to the people in the
street because the Panteon is a symbol in the city, the state and the country.
Listening to the people, we listened to their opinions about legends of León.
Before it was the Katrina but this archetype, it isn’t as…we wanted to do
something different. So, it occurred to us to paint in a chronological way left
to right: Prehispanic themes. Legends, and in the central part Macario, a film
that we all grew up with and marked all of us. It is a mural in different
techniques; before it [arte urbano] was only spray-paint, but also we worked
with acrylics, airbrush, brush and pens, this mural is richer than the previous
in theme, quality, and diversity. The planning was a month of development, many
hours of collaboration, sweat…as artists we always want to do everything
better…me and my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">companeros </i>here, we
hope that you enjoy it, we put lots of effort and work into it in drawing and
painting and in discussion. Thank you.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Kart’s presentation he privileges the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">process</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dialogic encounters</i> as the artists developed the concept and later
on, the work. They came up with themes in conversation (however vague) with
residents, understanding the site to be the collective property of Leonese people.
He also points to the expansion of what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">counts</i>
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">arte urbano</i>, moving from
spraypaint to other techniques including brushes, pens, etcetera. It also is
evidence of how the artists themselves work to control the frames and meanings
of their work, positioning themselves as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intermediaries</i>
between the government and the population, interpreting into images what
identity is and does.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After Kart’s speech there was another break for theater
where the Devil has an argument with Death, and the Devil tells the story of the
Brujo Funerario of 20 de Enero Street (this was the section of the mural that
Ardhe painted). Macario also told his tale. Death concluded the scene by
remarking to the audience that “such stories as these, of death, become
legends, and give life to this beautiful city and pass from generation to
generation.” Then the song “No vale nada la vida, la vida no vale nada,”
played. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the Mayor gave a speech, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almost</i> identical to the one he delivered a month before at the
reopening of Casa de Juventud. This one was shorter, and integrated Kart’s name
as an example to make the speech more responsive to context. He said: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“This project is part of our commitment to Leon…thank you to
Victor and the artists and your commitment and all of your commitments. In you
we see the great possibility for the transformation of Leon.” He thanked
Esquivel, the work of fellows of cabinet, and in a “very special thanks of a
CEO and friend, Jorge Succar, many thanks” he said “for the government its
important what we are presenting. First, our municipality is in a stage of
transition and change. As a government, we don’t come to administer problems—we
look to create a change in ourselves, [by devoting] our attention…[to] our
children, our youth and our women. With all respect for men of my generation we
are not focusing as much attention [on this cohort], we attend to all, but our
energy is focused on children, youth, and women because it represents a great
opportunity to change León. The León we have is not the León we want. We have a
great opportunity…to create a León we want. We resist living in a León that
excludes, is unequal… many of our efforts are focused on youth because
naturally they are noncomformist, for naturally they dream, and for their
conviction…and we don’t look to repress or judge them, we are not judges, as a
government we want to take advantage of their energy…this energy is expressed
in art, in painting, in sports, in music, in a constructive manner, in a way in
which we can transform ourselves and construct and construct a León of our and
their dreams…this here provokes a change. As Victor explained, the process is
not simple. First one must imagine it, and then create/paint it in a drawing or
an idea. And later, the great challenge of the creative process is to convince
other to participate in it. And the most interesting is to convince them to do
a project not based on individuality but to achieve a work that is not only
important in Leon, but at a national and international level. How do you create
a creative process without losing our identity? Conserving our identity? We
don’t want our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">artistas urbano</i>s are a
bad copy of foreign cultures. What we want of this project is that we are proud
of what we are, proud of our land, of our name, of our legends, of our
traditions. That today have graciously been represented. We need to assure
ourselves that we will always conserve…you continue this project passing from
generation to generation so that we never lose our identity to be Leónese,
Guanajuatense or Mexican…this is the great challenge of what we see installed
outside. How do we construct a world, Leon, Mexico that is modern in an
emblematic space? How do we motivate this process of transformation remembering
where we come from? How do we develop a modernity that strengthens our roots? <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is our tradition of honoring death, our tradition of
not fearing it, our tradition...of the dreams of our families…Mexicanos have
this duality, one foot in the underworld and another in reality. And how in
this exercise we construct the world you want. This event has a strong message.
Our government is not a judge, we don’t judge them. We include. And we include
because it is necessary to liberate energy for the transformation of Leon…where
we can live in a plurality. Where plurality and diversity enrich us, we must
learn to accept and respect us as we are. No one can be creative when you doubt
oneself. This process is not only to improve the outside of the city, or how
some people think in a limited way that it is just about beautification of our
city. Through this work [we see how] to be better, to reveal us in an
environment that is mythical, and through our creativity…how we can combine
techniques, visions and different interests in a collective dream. This is the
most powerful message. How in a León so plural, rich, and different with people
from 18 different countries, with different ages and interests…how we can unite
us to construct a mural of all o the municipality of Leon to construct a dream
that is collective. That’s what we want <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">muchachos</i>.
Thank you Victor, this is what we want. You developed it in two months, now we
…need much more than 2 months but all are invited to participate, each one with
their vision, their technique, their dream, but all constructing the same mural
for the benefit of all of our families and for the benefit of you. The
government simply aids with paint and brushes, but the real constructors are
not the government, it is all the artists that decide to participate. Have a
great evening.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this speech several things are at work. First is the idea
of youth as a kind of natural resource: as energy, political potential, vision.
This biopolitical language of maximizing potential, and life, is one that is
prevalent in previous youth institute events. The language of the “natural”
visa a vis youth is also in tension with recognition (also becoming ‘common
sense’ in IMJUV disoucrses) that there are diverse youth culture. Second is the
idea of inclusion, “plurality and diversity” positioning the government as
benevolent partner who “provides the brushes” but is not the primary actor.
Rossanna Reguillo has argued that in practice such inclusion manifests as “unequal
inclusion” insofar as some are included more than others, or only up until a
certain point. The inclusion of artists and youth seems to be implicitly based
on the extent to which youth can build a better León, both in the materiality
of urban space and by shaping cultural imaginaries. Moreover, inclusive
exclusion thrives in the context of neoliberal governance wehre the government’s
welfare function is hollowed out. We might ask, to what extent are projects
like this compensatory for a largely withered social welfare state (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">estado benefactor) </i>outsourcing
infrastructural responsibility to the population, and corporations. Third, is
the idea of tradition and conserving it, positioning youth as the custodians of
the past. Fourth, is a tacit anxiety about being “bad copies” of other “urban
artists” and the imperative to create something unique and specific, that is as
much inward looking as it is outward looking. Fifth is using this to straddle
the difficulty of modernity. The mural serves as metaphor and model for how to
liberate energy, include different identities, conserve tradition and celebrate
it, and create a unique model of Leonese identity that is well positioned to
confidently stride from the past into the future without losing sense of self. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen leading part of mural tour for Mayor Santillana (Center). October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ante explaining Macario panel to Mayor. October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparing for group photo by Lolis' Katrina. October 31, 2017.</td></tr>
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After the Mayor’s talk the aunouncer signaled applause and
invited everyone to join the Mayor on a tour of the mural. A huge crowd moved
down the street, part of the street was closed, and first Dante explained parts
of the mural: the Katrin of Siter, who wasn’t there; then elements of Macario;
then Dante pointed to Crook’s Nahual, and then La Llorona of Quena. The press
proceeded ahead and backwards to get photos of the explanation, then they went
back west and Chuen explained the two gods he had painted, of the Inframundo
and the Goddess of Plants, and then Brote explained the two dogs, the Puento
Arcoiris. There were postcards made of the Puente Arcoiris by Zhot and Brote,
the Brujo of San Pancho by Arde, of Mictlán by Chuen, the god of the
inframundo, of Vincenta by Ante, and these were given out. When we rached Lolis
and Truko’s part of the wall, near the stairs, the Mayor asked the artists to
sign the cards, and later Misraim communicated that the Mayor would have the
cards placed in the Municipal Archives. “this, I think, is a great achievement”
he said to the Muraleon crew, who responded with cheers and whoops. It was an
extremely exciting moment for the artists to receive such robust recognition of
their work, and there were many spontaneous hugs and hands on shoulders and
shouts, mobilizing separate conversations and dreaming about future projects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mural was documented in the press as well, appearing in
articles in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.milenio.com/leon/panteon-san_nicolas-recinto-leyendas-pintura-color-milenio-noticias-leon_0_1037896378.html">Milenio,</a> <a href="https://www.elsoldeleon.com.mx/local/pintan-a-la-muerte">El Sol</a>, <a href="http://noticias.leon.gob.mx/?p=4798">NoticiasLeón,</a> <a href="http://www.heraldoleon.mx/nueva-piel-panteon-san-nicolas/">El Heraldo,</a><a href="http://plazaprincipal.com/jovenes-al-rescate-de-tradiciones/"> Plaza Principal,</a> <a href="http://bonitoleon.com/terminado-mural-panteon-san-nicolas/">Bonito León</a>, </i>and <a href="https://guanajuato.sintesis.mx/2017/11/01/alientan-jovenes-artistas-rescatar-tradiciones-leon/">others,</a> and in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSyltrrriY">little videos</a>
featuring Quena and JHard on the Leon Joven website.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This event which functioned as a moment of official
recognition is important. It signals the municipality’s attempt to integrate “arte
urbano” into crucial organs for local history and identity. Moreover, it
demonstrates how “arte urbano” can be used as a metaphorical resource for
reimagining the “urban image,” but also how artists are learning to situate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">themselves</i> and establish sometimes
competing or different frames for understanding the importance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">arte urbano</i> as a means of public
communication and civic voice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Muchas gracias a Muraleón y las otras artistas para sus historías y para permitirme documentar este proyecto. Este proyecto es hecho con apoyo de Fulbright Garcia-Robles/Comexus y el Universidad de Pittsburgh/CRDF. </div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-81036322116207913412017-11-30T09:35:00.001-11:002017-11-30T09:35:28.890-11:00Graffiti Workshops at the Festival Internacional Cervantino: Access, Exclusion, and Innovation in the Shadow of the International Art Festival<div class="MsoNormal">
The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC) is a world-class
art festival held in Guanajuato, Guanajuato for the bulk of the month of
October. The programming is diverse in terms of artistic medium and country of
origin: in the same day one can see a play be a French theater troupe, a DJ
session by a Chinese MC, and then see students, some dressed in 18<sup>th</sup>
century velvet breeches and hats singing as they make their rounds to the bars
(Estudiantinos). The festival is an enormous tourism draw, and the ancient city
with narrow cobblestone streets and steep hills is full to bursting with
foreigners.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What then, of local residents? In 2014, there were the first
set of graffiti and hip hop workshops hosted at the festival.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8846422715248022477#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
This year there were offerings of free graffiti, stencil, yarn bombing, break
dancing and rap workshops. These events were organized by a DF based
organization called Circo Volador,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8846422715248022477#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and were a response to the “<span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿</span>Nosotros
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local Guanajuatense residents formed to call attention to the exclusionary
effects of the FIC, where city residents could rarely afford to pay to enter
the events that were hosted in their own city. “What about us? They asked,”
Israel, one of the workshop leaders, explained in an interview. The graffiti
workshops were offered for three days in a row with the idea of creating a
collaborative mural out of the temporary wall that would be covered in aerosol
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These three-day workshops were held near the Ex-Estacion de
Ferrocarril, the site of Guanajuato’s former train station, a key center for
the movement of metals throughout the republic in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup>
century. Now it hosts NGO and government offices, with a maze of tianguis on
one side, and then a colorful maze of 1 or 2-room shacks to the right, with
mountains peppered with colorful houses behind. There was a wrought iron fence
by a brick walkway with images of cameras and sometimes phrases like “punto de
vista.” A group of youth in uniforms, likely in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prepa</i>, were giggling in packs and taking photos by the scenic
points, and a group of four men sat together on a bench, gossiping and smoking,
seeming to be somewhat drunk. They were in front of a large white temporary
wall which was about 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, about 1.5 feet thick. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from workshops site. Guanajuato, Gto. 10/19/2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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There was also a stage and stadium seats built into a hill,
and there more youth lounged while a couple of writes painted outlines. People
in t-shirts with a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cholo </i>on the
front, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cervantino</i> in gothic script,
and then their names or nicknames on the back were setting up tents, tables
with stations with paper, pencils, and markets. I asked about the graffiti
workshop and was walked to the temporary wall and told to take a seat and wait
there. I wandered a bit, hearing paint wandered to the stage and was watching
the breakdance area, and was told they were painting a background for the dance
workshops, and that the graffiti workshop was something different. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage for breaking workshop. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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I waited about 30 minutes, and at around 10:30 I saw a group
of high schoolers, about 15, led by a teacher. I introduced myself to the workshop
leaders, Geraldo and Israel from the town of Torreon in the state of Cuahila, south
of Sonora and near Zacatecas. This is a border town, and is among one of the
first places where graffiti started in Mexico, Geraldo (aka Caporal) attested. He has been
writing since 1997.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Israel recounting graffiti history. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Israel (aka Vlair) began by narrating the long history of graffiti: the
romans, prehispanic culture, and then in New York in the 1970s, “people wanted
and needed to express themselves…There was a guy named Taki 183 and he was one
of the first, he tagged all over the city because he was a delivery boy. York
in Mexico City is one of the first taggers in Mexico like Taki.” This theme of
graffiti as communication is crucial and recurred in Israel’s
presentation/interactions. “There are two kinds of graffiti,” he explained,
“Legal and illegal. With illegal graffiti it is anonymous, you do not know who
did it, and you have to do it quickly. With legal graffiti it is more developed
and artistic, but it comes from the illegal…graffiti came to Mexico from the
US, moving from north to south. There are also different kinds, which Gerald is
going to show you.” Gerald/Caporal took an orange can of Socel paint and began
to trace an angular, gang style tag, with some letters upside down so that the
letters appeared to be angry tridents. “That is gang style graffiti and it
comes from the east,” Gerald wrote “east” next<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to it. “It’s like a cholo” a student reacted. “Then there are the tags
that are crew tags, and they are more flowing,” and Gerald wrote “Caporal” in a
fluid script. “That is more on the west,” and Gerald wrote “West” next to the
tag. “Another level of graffiti are what we call bombs, these are large letters
filled in with color with outlines,” and Caporal wrote “CAP” and then the last
level is a piece, which has at least three different colors, outlines, shading,
aura.” Caporal started to add shadows, drips, an aura. He only had three cans
of paint and later told me that it was frustrating that they were given so
little paint. “There is a difference between gang graffiti and crew graffiti”
Israel emphasized, “They are two different things.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caporal explaining differences in tagging styles. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geraldo demonstrating a fill in with effects. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geraldo demonstrating cholo style tag. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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“There are hundreds of styles of graffiti,” Israel
continued, “but no matter the style it is all about the need to communicate and
express yourself.” He mentioned that some street art/arte urbano has become
worth a lot of money, there is someone called Bansky, no one knows who they
are, but it is probably a team and if he or they painted on your house it would
be worth a lot of money, someone might come and try to take it off and sell it.”
“For millions,” a youth added. This youth was from Leon and was clearly already
an accomplished tagger because what he painted was fluid and defined. When
Gerald finished his mini piece he asked, “Preguntas? Dudas? Does anyone want to
paint?” “You should paint!” someone said to one of the young women. “Noooo!” she
demurred, giggling into a group of girls, who also exploded into giggles.
“Write ‘Paula!’” one of the boys persisted. She ultimately ended up painting,
and Geraldo helped another girl with her piece, creating an outline that she
could fill. The youth painted and played around for another 10 minutes and then
the teacher thanked the instructors and led them away. Then the guys stayed at
the wall, answering questions and giving mini summaries of the history to the
curious.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students trying out tagging. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students trying out tagging. Guanajuato, GTO. 10/19/17. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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When I asked Israel about the experience of teaching the
workshops he said that he enjoyed leading them because “Everyone has a
different perspective about graffiti, young, old, and each place has different
problems that youth face and the youth in each place have different needs.” I
asked about the problematic he had divined in Guanajuato. “This city is a site
for global historic patrimony, so there are few to no places for youth to
paint, and it is frustrating, because they need to communicate.” This raises a
key question about the limits or the friction of legal graffiti regimes in the
wake of historical patrimony. In Guanajuato, which is seen as a site for
historic patrimony, graffiti is largely understood as a kind of damage to
historic walls. Yet, the city is an active site of residence and public life
for thousands, and so what right do they have to make their mark on its
environs? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Exploring Guanajuato itself over a series of four days I
found little graffiti but a fair amount of wheat pasting, not surprising given
the large number of print shops in the city. Only on a bus back to the bus
station did I see some burners on the side of a car shop, an out of the way
place on a sharp diagonal gradation of ground on the side of a hill. It is nor
surprising, in some ways, that graffiti, an art form that is fairly
marginalized in Guanajuato is used as a means of changing (slightly) how access
is calibrated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the one hand, the workshops as part of FIC offers a model
of providing access to what might feel for some to be an elitist and
exclusionary festival. It highlights challenges and possibilities for youth and
city spaces. On the other hand, it could be seen as a kind of compensatory
gesture: locals are not offered free entry into the more central events, and
the temporary wall itself it was on a hill and not visible in the city center
below. Like Art Basel’s public art events, they occur outside of and alongside
the festival, perhaps reaching more plural audiences, but do not provide access
into the “central” site itself. What would it mean for the FIC to integrate
live painting into its concerts, dance performances, and plays? Though the FIC
includes programming from local arts groups and free, open-air film screenings
and art exhibitions, what would it mean to provide full access to city
residents? Would it create informal economies of residence qualifications like
that which precedes South By Southwest? Would it generate a larger sense of
ownership of the festival for residents? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“MOS Mexico: The most important graffiti event in the
Americas” the Meeting of Styles Mexico website boldly states. Perhaps there is
some truth to the statement insofar as the event attracts participants from
across the globe, with representation from Western and Northern Europe, North
America, Central America, and South America. But important for whom? The
artists? Graffiti communities? Street art communities? The sponsors? The
residents of the cities in which the events are held? The answers to these
questions vary depending on the iteration of the festival and the claim about
importance offers a clue to the shifting coordinates of the event since its
founding in Mexico in the early 2000s: the organizers of this series of events
are deliberately and carefully building a framework for festival production
that straddles multiple spheres: the touristic, the community driven, the
urban, the peri-urban, proximate to institutions of state power and at a distance.
Inhabiting multiple and seemingly conflicting realms is something that graffiti
is uniquely situated to accomplish, <a href="http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/2-2013/kraidy_graffiti">Kraidy has argued</a>, claiming that graffiti’s
function is heterotopic, always a little apart from but also deeply reflective
of dominant cultural tendencies.
In this piece I reflect on my experience at MOS Mexico in two of the three
sites: Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Jalisco, and Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, to
map the various <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">topoi</i> that the
festival travels, conceptually and materially.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I’ve written in other posts, MOS Mexico changed
leadership in 2013, and also changed location from Ciudad Nezahualcoyótl,
Estado de México, to the Centro Historico, and also expanded from one annual
festival to three within the month of October. I discuss some of the tensions
and possibilities in this shift in my forthcoming book.</div>
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This year, the festival was sited in Tlajomulco de Zuñiga,
Jalisco; the Centro Histórico of Mexico City; and Playa del Carmen, Quintana
Roo. The movement from Tlajomulco to Playa del Carmen can be described as a
migration from the peri-urban to the deeply touristic, the local neighborhood
to the global Disneyland beach-side town crafted in an image so general and so
stylized that it leaves little room for surprise. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I traveled to Tlajomulco with Orion and Brote from León.
They, along with Bote, were representatives for León at MOS. To get there in
time to take the bus from Tlajomulco to the site we left León at about 2am,
taking a bus to Guadalajara, and then an uber through pouring rain to
Tlajomulco. The trip was surreal, and the men slept little, chatting about what
pieces they would paint, what colors they hoped to have, what MOS is like, and
so forth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tlajomulco is about thirty minutes outside of Guadalajara,
one of the “most graffitied” cities in Mexico. There were only two hotels in
the small city center, both called Plaza Hotel Tjaljomulco, though only one in
the plaza. The non-plaza version which was decorated in a vaguely Las
Vegas/1970s style sheen was completely full with the visiting writers. At about
10am everyone gathered in the hotel lobby, filling it to the brim, spilling out
into the streets where writers smoked cigarettes, greeted each other, ate
breakfast or simply sat quietly, some, perhaps, nursing exhaustion from the
travel or a hangover. We were waiting for a bus to take us to the paint site. I
heard mostly Spanish being spoken but also some French, and recognized a group
from previous trips to MOS France in Perpignan: Revs and Berns, from Paris, and
two crewmates from Toulouse. Berns has had an interesting trajectory: born in
Peru he located to New Zealand for a number of years, and now has been living
in Paris for five. He and Revs are energetic and often the group clowns,
cracking jokes, shuttling between French, Spanish, and English at lightening
speed. They tease me for my rusty and broken French, and we shift back into
Spanish to complete a greeting where I explain how I know of them and their
work. When the bus arrives the MOS staff wearing t-shirts and caps that say “X”
on the front and “Mixer” on the back, load posters, banners, and paint into the
belly of the bus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Berns. ODV Crew. MOS Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 8, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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I end up sitting next to one of the organizing crew, X83
from Mexico City. He notes of the location that it is an attempt to
“decentralize the festival” since the subsequent iteration (in a week) will be
in the country’s capital. The last one, he notes, “will be in a touristic
site.” The decision to locate to Tlajomulco was not random: Mixer did an art intervention
with the government of Jalisco earlier and so had the ability to do a
presentation hwere they summarized what they had already done, and what they
planned to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the forty minute bus ride to the side I noticed that for
the size of the town there were a number of urban art interventions. Murals
decorated some of the larger buildings, and entryways to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fraccionamientos </i>had painted blocks or cartoon-like figures of
dolls, birds, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MOS Tlajomulco de Zuñiga site. October 7, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">360 Paint camper. October 7, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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At about 11am we arrived. The site was a large boulevard
that started with a parklet on either side, triangles with some grass and a few
trees breaking up long concrete walls and pavement streets. Across the street
from where we descended from the bus was a large camping vehicle painted “360
Paint” in 3-d on one side, and a large monster on the other side. The walls of
the boulevard were primed blue for about a kilometer on either side with
numbered spaces. The MOS staff unloaded small duffel bags with the 360 logo
into a large pyramidal pile. They set up banners and standing posters with the
festival logo and sponsors on it, and at a folding table piled high with
sandwiches, apples, and jugs of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">horchata</i>
four women stood behind and handed out breakfasts. We were encouraged to get in
line and grab food, and for about twenty minutes people ate, quietly chatting,
looking around the site. I noticed more familiar faces from the MOS 2011 and
2014 festival: Reak, one of the co-owners of 360 paint was there. He explained
that the factory had moved after a robbery (it used to be near Neza) and now
was in Queretaro. We reminisced about our first meeting where I hung out with
the 1810 mob (a crew that has members in Mexico and Los Angeles) and he told me
that he had been able to visit the guys in California, painting with Skul and
Arte.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laying outlines. October 7, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. MOS Mexico. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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As I sat alone drinking horchata and observing two kids approached
me. They looked to be about nine or ten. They had many questions, asking where
I was from, if I was an artist, if they could paint too. I tried to explain
that the artists were selected in advance, but that they probably could ask the
artists questions about how they paint, if they wished since it was a public
event. I asked them if they were from Tlajomulco, and what they liked the most
about their town. “The green spaces,” a stockier boy said. I would see them
again throughout the day, and the next, as they fearlessly walked around the
event, asking the artists for autographs and commentary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By about 11:30 a crowd gathered around the main tent. Gerso,
the lead organizer was giving an opening address. After thanking the sponsors,
and introducing local contacts from the municipality of Tlajomulco, who offered
to provide advice and help, he said: “This is the opening event for MOS, and
this location is an important element of our goal to decentralize the festival.
We are in a residential neighborhood here, and so let us be very respectful to
these people, our neighbors. Now, listen up, I am going to announce each person
by your name. you will pick up your credential (artist’s badge), a t shirt, and
your paint kit. You will be assigned a number, and that corresponds to your
place on the wall.” He explained what range of numbers correspond to what part
of the wall. “There is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chavo</i> who
cannot attend, and this would have been his first MOS. His father died. So, it
would be nice, if you wanted to put his name up. His name is EMES,. E-M-E-S.”
Gerso went through the roll call, “I will not repeat names, guys,” he warned.
The little kids I’d talked to earlier approached the table and asked for
tshirts. “No,” Gerso’s girlfriend seemed to say. They still stuck close.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I accompanied Brote and Orion to their spots, which were
close to each other. “This is plenty of space!” they noted approvingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little vertical slashes marked boundaries
between spots. There was little shade (maybe three of 90 or so spots had trees)
which meant that the sun was brutal, but that visibility was good of the pieces
from the street. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bote was situated in the parklet, closer to shade, the
port-o-potties and the tents where meals were served and where the MOS staff
congregated. I had interviewed Bote years ago when I first went to León. His
style is still letter-based, simple, but very clean and balanced. He was
painting next to a guy from Morelia/Monterrey, Anes, who had more lyrical
letters, not quite wildstyle but not quite readable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anes painting. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. October 8, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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The range of mediums at the festival. In addition to more
traditional aerosol based works artists worked with brush and acrylic paint, as
well as stencils, and there was relative balance between those who did
image-based work, and those who focused on text. One man who wielded a
rudimentary stencil that included holes for eyes, mouth, and lots of little
holes punched to create the details of a face wrote 90Once4, and wore a t-shirt
reading “Galeria Arte Urbano Tlajomulco,” providing a clue into the history of
the site as one that has repeated hosted urban art events. This was one of many
indications about the spread of “arte urbano” and youth institute programming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">across </i>the Mexican republic that I would
encounter throughout my travels in October. Two men working with large stencils
of women holding spraycans were from Queretaro and named Reybel and Himed. In
an interview they noted of their experience at Tlajomulco that it was unique
because of the number of kids who visited them and asked questions and for
autographs. Their final piece used the stencils to create two women back to
back arms outstretched with aerosol cans, and the arms are tripled, indicating
motion. In an interview Berns, too, noted how remarkable it was that such a
large number of youth came up and asked questions and for autographs. “Its
really cool that they want to learn more about graffiti,” he reflected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">90Once4. Textures. October 8, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chileno artist. October 8, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Los Calladitos. October 7-8, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Octopus by Pepe from Chile. October 8, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Los Calladitos. October 7-8, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snap from Monterrey. October 8, 2017. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Another team of street artists was Ari and Jorge, who
collectively make up the group called Los Calladitos from San Miguel de Allende.
Their mural of a large floating man with a bright white light and a hole in his
heart with little angels around him is the second part of a series they are
working on which will ultimately be part of a stop motion film about characters
made up of light called “dons.” Painting next to two Chileno artists, they had
brought their baby kitten, a tiny orange thing that alternately cuddled with
one of the Chileno’s partners, or curled up in a blanket in a cardboard box.
The cat was not the only pet, a man painting a detailed half-mechanical
half-animal crocodile with paint and brush had a little white and brown spotted
dog which snuggled close to the wall under a chair next to speakers that gently
played music. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mechanical/musical alligator. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. October 7, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Other more traditional graffiti artists included Smar, from
Mexico City, who did elegant gothic letters, Reak who did 3-d mechanical
letters, and Beste, one of the Mexican women writers who has been writing the
longest. Storm, a Danish writer, had abstract geometric lietters. Realist
graffiti works included a scene of two dueling dragons, or faces of women.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dragon outlines.MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 7. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dueling dragons. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 7. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reak. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 7. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orion. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 8. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smar. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 8. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3d styles. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 7. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self-representation. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 7. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trump/Kim Jong Un. MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 8. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Women's faces and jellyfish.MOS Mexico Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, October 8. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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By 1 pm most outlines had been applied and the staff started
to give out posters to passers by. Large packs of youth and families began to
circulate up and down the walls collecting signatures from participating
artists. About ten people every 30-40 minutes would ask each artist for their
autograph on the poster.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Los calladitos and fans. October 7, 2017. MOS Mexico, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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I learned that the women giving out food worked for the
Tlajomulco youth institute, and the institute had sponsored the creation of a
street art gallery called Trazo and graffiti workshops, as well as BMX dance
and other kinds of workshops. They organized the lunch as well, which was a
wide range of different <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guisados</i> for
tacos, with several kinds of salsa and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">agua
de Jamaica. </i>Feeding the artists was important, Gerso mentioned in an
earlier interview, they need lodging, transit, food, and supplies to be able to
focus on their work and do the best job and have the best experience. At lunch
I met a young Guadalajara writer named REM who said, with pride that Chaz
Bojorquez (a famous Los Angeles writer who pioneered a calligraphic style of
writing based on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cholo</i> placas) had
lived in Guadalajara, and that it is “the most graffieid city in the world.” He
expressed simultaneous frustration about MOS for being “elitist” but also his
longing to participate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch time. October 7, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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There were a number of police watching the event. What was
notable were the numbers of seemingly low-intensity interactions between police
and writers: eating near each other, police taking selfies with the works, or
asking questions of writers about process and technique.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the second day when we wait for the bus the mood is more
relaxed: participants have had the time to share meals and space, and perhaps
having made good progress on their work there is less anticipation or anxiety.
Some writers shyly ask the others for autographs. Again, breakfast is there
when we arrive, and the Youth Institute women tell me to eat, that “it’s just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frijoles y queso, no carne.</i>” I am
embarrassed and touched that they remember that I am vegetarian from a passing
comment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I interviewed Storm on day 2. Before the interview proper we
chat a bit about the relationship between art and gentrification, how it is
tricky to promote international art without eroding sense of place. He, too,
remarked on the number of kids at the Tlajomulco site, and the size of the
festival itself, much larger than the one at Copenhagen. He expressed some
anxiety about changes he saw in graffiti culture from when he stared in 1992 to
now, where people seem “more concerned about fame than being themselves.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I ate lunch, I was approached by another group of
youth, four boys, about eight years old. One of the youth institute staff told
them I was from the U.S. They asked me, point blank: “Do all Americans things
Mexicans are bad?” I tried to explain that Trump was not representative of
everyone’s opinion, and that those who are hateful are ignorant. In the same
breath they asked about how much and how long it takes to get to Disneyland, to
do the math of dollars into pesos, where I had traveled, and where my husband
was (the assumption being that I had one). This little exchange pointed to the
festival as a site for international contact, for youth, and writers, to
negotiate with stereotypes and preconceptions. Though it was not as much of a
party as perhaps MOS France is, with live dance and music and beer and wine for
sale, it was a vibrant site for exchange and learning about youth who live
beyond big cities, but still have pressing questions and curiosity about the
world beyond, but also pride and interest in sharing their own perceptions and
experiences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brote, Orion and I left around 4pm: they had work the next
day and were eager to get back to León, and I, too, was eager for a bit of rest
before the next trip. Moreover, for many of us, Tlajomulco was just the first
of a set of reunions across the country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>Playa del Carmen</b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MOS Playa del Carmen.October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Meeting of Styles." Manuel, MOS Founder, MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Playa del Carmen is like a giant strip/playground/fantasy
relam for massages, drinks, ice cream, and souvenirs. People are only partly
dressed, many covered in sand, walking with weaving, slow and intermittent steps.
The rhythms of vacation and service industry. Merchants yell about their wares
and target particular passers by: “Señorita! Lady! Guerita!” in the humidity
the thought is also slowed and one can think only of appetitive things: heat,
thirst, hunger. Crepes. The warm ocean water. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a much smaller group for this iteration of MOS. It
is around a<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> secundaria</i> (middle
school) about three or four blocks west from Quinta Avenida, the main tourist
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The walls were primed a dark purple again with numbers and
little slash marks designating spots. At about 10:20 writers approached the
spot from the hostel where they were collectively housed, and Gerso waved the
group around a corner where a large van was parked, MOS staff seated inside and
standing around it. He coughed, laughed and said “This is the Meeting of
Styles…blah blah blah,” to laughter since most of the people present had
participated in the prior two festivals. There seemed to be a significant
decrease in urgency and also more informality because unlike DF or Jalisco it
seemed like the audience was only writers and family/friends, not politicians
and media, as well. As in Jalisco, Gerso read the name of the writer, their
spot number, and they went to get their paint, tshirt, and credential (a lanyard
with a cardboard decal with “MOS” on one side and “Artist” on the other).<o:p></o:p></div>
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This time Zhot and Brote were the represenatives for León. They
painted next to each other and in between a Berlin writer, Riots, and another
writer with an equally chaotic style. It was curious to see the graffiti walls
adjacent to the palatial vacation homes and hotels surrounding the school. We
were by another ADO (bus) station so many would see the works on their way out
of the city, and drivers would slow the buses to watch the writers in action.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brote. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brote, detail. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zhot in process. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Stay wild." MOS Playa del Carmen. October 21, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storm from Copenhagen. October 21, 2017. MOS Playa del Carmen. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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I met one of the organizers, Secreto Rebollo from
Guadalajara, and interviewed him about the MOS Mexico festival. He explained
that one of the key groups, Mixer, grew out of frustration that many graffiti
events were not artist-run and were not organized with the experience of
artists in mind. A year ago Mixer was founded, a collection of aritsts from
across the Mexican republic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alter Nos from Mexico City is also part of Mixer, and has
participated in legal graffiti programs in Mexico City since the early 2000s. His
whole family came with him to MOS, and all but his son paint, using the practice
to bring them closer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alternos. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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I also met Franc Mun, a Chilango writer who does largely
image-based work. For MOS Playa del Carmen he was painting a fish and a fish
skeleton. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Franc Mun. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Around the corner was Nove Noël from Galicia, who discussed
how he strives, in his work, to make commentary specific to the site, a
particular challenge in the context of events like MOS where one has little understanding
or relationship to community. He ultimately did a big burner with his name and
a confused and anxious looking octopus with the thought bubble: “Carmen?...”
because “it is all foreigners here, hard to find actual Mexicans,” a playful
commentary on the no-place of tourist sites.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Near Franc Mun was Flaco from Cancun, who discussed the
value of MOS for bringing people together, and for giving a “little taste of
culture” to Playa del Carmen “where arts and culture is not accessible to many.”
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MOS Mexico also emerges as a key site for evolving one’s style,
particularly for writers from smaller cities or regions with less graffiti
culture. Deas from Veracruz said in his hometown there are few opportunities
for legal graffiti, so events like MOS are crucial sites for building contacts
and developing new skills/getting “tips.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deas. MOS Playa del Carmen. October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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The second day, in an abandoned lifeguard hut by a
construction wall where some of the guys did some quick pieces on the beach, I interviewed
Riot from Berlin, who also finds MOS to be a key site for building connections
globally. His work is humorous, chaotic, and visually dense. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">MOS Playa del Carmen. October 21, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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<br />I also met Flit, from Yucatan, a 360 sponsored wall with
prehispanic themes. For him, festivals in Merida played a key role in his
artistic development. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collaborative 360 wall by Yucatan writers. MOS Playa del Carmen, October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Jace, from Aguascalientes but living in Playa del Carmen
talked of the ways in which events like MOS provide “inspiration.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jace.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">MOS Playa del Carmen, October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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Also visible at the festival are boutique graffiti
economies. A group from Queretaro sold paint and pens out of the back of their
car, another group sold t-shirt’s by their friend’s wall. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shady from Chiapas. MOS Playa del Carmen, October 22, 2017. Photo by Caitlin Bruce.</td></tr>
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At Playa del Carmen, interaction with residents is minimal.
Though some tourists would stop to take photos or even chat, or some of the local
performers would provide commentary on the pieces as they changed into Aztec
warrior costumes, the writers were able to paint with minimal distractions from
humans. It was a much smaller group than in Jalisco, and most finished their
pieces rapidly, perhaps because of the challenging weather (there was lots of
rain), or because of the desire to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turistear</i>
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Looking at the two festivals provides a sense of the potential
range of audiences and spaces that can be engaged by these events particularly
due to the high level of organizational acumen brought by the planning team,
but also some limitations that the structure provides (limited knowledge of
place, exhaustion from travel, distraction from site). For me, it provided a
wider panorama of the growth of legal graffiti practices <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">across</i> Mexico over the course of the past twenty years.<o:p></o:p></div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-46646728056696183192017-10-16T08:39:00.002-11:002017-10-16T08:39:44.822-11:00“Shifting Definitions of Art: Municipal Support, Graffiti Production, Institutional Constraints” <div class="MsoNormal">
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Over the last six weeks I have continued my field work with
the Muraleon team in León, am also been building my knowledge base about youth
culture and the emergence and function of youth as a social category for political
and intellectual inquiry, and through observation and conversations learning
more about the social and political dynamics of León.<o:p></o:p></div>
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September 16 is Independence Day, and it is announced by a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grito</i>, a public shout by elected
officials to renew enthusiasm and commitment to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la Republica.</i> It is also celebrated by partying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chile en nogada</i>, and a parade. The parade
in León took place on Calle Madero, the historic walkway for the city, and a
symbolic space for Leonese identity, beginning with the Arco de Calzada and
ending with the Plaza Principal. The participants included police,
firefighters, and military (including the K-9 division proudly outfitted with
vests and stretchy leg warmers) who assumed action poses (some holding ropes
that were suspended from truck beds, legs posted against the back of the truck,
appearing as if they were about to base jump into conflicted territory), and
whose presence was announced by all sirens on every vehicle ramped up to
maximum volume. Other participants included religious associations, riding on
floats or walking with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mantas</i> (cloth
signs) with images of their patron saint. Yet other participants included <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caballeros</i>, men in full cowboy regalia
on horses with braided manes and checkered patterns stamped or shaped onto
their hindquarter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caballeras</i> in
detailed dresses with extensive piping, and children on little ponies. Civic
groups designed floats with scenes from the conquest, and the revolution. </div>
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The
next day, September 17, across Mexico feminist groups held marches protesting
ongoing femicide. With shouts like “Ni una más! Nos la queremos vivos! Las
calles están nuestras!” and heart breaking testimony from the father of a young
woman in León who was recently murdered, where he took aim at both
institutional complacency and impunity, and then a consciousness raising
exercise where in the very same Plaza Principal we stood, a smaller inward
circle facing a larger external circle, and discussed recent moments where we
had felt afraid walking in public space; what we do to keep ourselves safe; and
what we do to keep our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">compañeras</i>
safe, with hugs at the end, a different performance of the nation took place,
one that highlighted its intensely gendered inequality. It was not a massive
group, maybe 40 or 50 people, but, my colleague Lupe informed me, it was an
excellent turnout for León where there is “not such a culture of street protest
and activism,” a truth that was evident in the surprised and curious, and sometimes
critical, looks of passers-by. I bring up these two moments to remind us that
public space is a place of contention and ongoing production and reproduction
of the myth of sovereignty, as well as acts of gendered violence and exclusion
(my other colleague at Ibero, Dr. David Martinez led a study about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">piropas</i>, cat calling, as verbal acts of
violence).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legal graffiti art is not exempt from the work of producing,
reproducing, and challenging the state. Whereas in 2010 the legal graffiti
program in León was deeply involved in celebrating Mexican Independence through
a series of bicentennial murals, some still extant on the underpass where Lopez
Mateos passes the IMSS hospital in the city’s western side, the current program
does not really engage with nationalist iconography. Instead, the major projects
planned for 2017: the 5 de Mayo mural, a set of murals commemorating Mexican
authors on the “Duraznal” apartment complex, Malecolor (a project creating the largest
legal graffiti space in the world), and the Panteón San Nicolas pre-hispanic
culture and urban legend mural, use elements of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">popular</i> culture and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">popular
identity</i> to create a set of resonant images for the city, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">color therapy</i> used to beautify public
spaces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Panteon San Nicolas was the signature program of the first
and second iterations of legal graffiti sponsorship in the city. In both
iterations (2010 and 2013) the tall and massive walls surrounding the city’s
largest cemetery were covered with portraits of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Catrina</i>, an iconic figure for death, a beautiful woman with a
skull face. However, members of Muraleon explained that this image as been “used
up” or used “too much,” it is an image that does not necessarily come from
León. Rather, it is an image that foreigners are invested in and use to imagine
Mexico. In this project, writers are using images from pre-Hispanic culture
related to death, urban legends, and images from a famous film from the golden
age of Mexican cinema, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Macario</i>
(1960), to renovate the image of the Panteón, and the City.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Quena in process. 9.26.17.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Panteon San Nicolas. In process. 9.26. 17.<br /></td></tr>
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Moreover, writers who work with the Muraleon program occupy
a different cultural position than what they assumed in 2010-2012/2013-2015. In
an interview with Ante, who writes Muostro legally, he explained that when he
first worked with the Youth Institute in 2010 he was mainly just receiving
support from the institute in order to elaborate murals. Now, in his capacity
as a member of the Muraleon team, he sees himself more as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">promotor</i>, a promoter or organizer who
has the privilege (and responsible) to design opportunities <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for other writers</i> to participate in
creating new images in and for the city.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8846422715248022477#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Yet,
he acknowledged, there are limits to what one can do. Telling a story about
giving graffiti workshops in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">colonias
populares</i> in the Del Bajio region, he said that at the end of the workshops
youth would say “Don’t go!” which was heartbreaking, or, when youth experienced
misfortune (one experienced his family car being stolen, which impeded his
mother from taking him to needed doctor’s appointments), there was not much
that they could do as teaching artists. Kif, when discussing her participation in
designing a legal graffiti/youth space with the Instituto Municipal de
Planeación de León (IMPLAN), explained that though writers actively
participated in designing a park, Parque Extremo, ultimately they were not
given free access to the space, one had freedom, “only up until a certain
point.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8846422715248022477#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Ruben Jasso, former IMPLAN architect replied, “Why can’t they recognize that a
citizen can be their own authority?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another limit is in the extent to which IMJUV can patronize
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aesthetic </i>development of
graffiti. “IMJUV is concerned with youth and preventing delinquency,” Zhot
explained in an interview, “they are not an arts organization.” The limits of
institutional structures are also important to keep in mind when imagining how
to design public arts programs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This question of limits is important, because it relates to
larger questions about the situation of youth and social inequality in Mexico
and an increasingly neoliberal (and attenuated) state. Rosanna Reguillo argues
that during the postwar period “youth” became intelligible as a social category
much more broadly (1940s-50s) and that this visibility also coincided in a rise
in the language of “human rights” in the wake of fascist regimes. So, she
reflects, paradigms for punishment of youth also changed, and the state was
situated as a “benefactor” and when they are punished it is not castigation but
“correction” and “care.” As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">promotores</i>,
writers are situated as arms (or fingers) of a benificent and caring state,
part of a larger apparatus of maximizing the productivity of these social
actors and channeling their affects and practices into more productive
terrains, and persuading writers to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acercarse</i>
(to get close to) the government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the ways that the Muraleon team is working to
overcome the limits of art world perceptions of graffiti as “folk” and not “art”
is by hosting a charity auction in late November/early December. Brote
explained in an interview that such an event, pitched towards the CEO’s and
executives who follow his and his crew’s work, will help convince León’s elite
that graffi should, indeed, be considered as part of the plastic arts. Another
way Brote sought to elevate his cultural capital as an artist is by
participating in the Meeting of Styles festival,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a global festival that I have studied
in-depth over the last seven years. At this international festival artists can
display their work to a multi-national public, and the fact of their
participation holds a particular level of cachet, a possible analogue to the
global contemporary artist who has the studio in London and one in Mexico City.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another limit is with respect to gender. Though there are
two women employed in the fourteen-person Muraleon team, they so far have not
been situated as project leaders, even though one of them has been active in
the graffiti scene for a very long time. In terms of the content of many of the
murals the female body or the female face is a recurring trope. Yet, these
figures are frequently passive objects for the male gaze. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, in September an events called Malecolór was
supposed to take place. This is an event designed to celebrate and inaugurate the
opening of the largest permission graffiti space in the world: the full length
of León’s Malecón del Rio, a concrete riverbed that cuts across the entire
city, will be open to graffiti, day and night. Because of weather (rains) the
even could not take place. Two participants in the HCUAP 2016-2017 pilot year,
Stef Skills and Kane One, from Chicago, still came out to visit and the
Muraleon team found a prominent wall under a bridge on Campestre that crosses
the Malecón to paint. There, we spent the weekend under the bridge while the
artists painted. It is a highly visible site, and Lalo Camarena estimated that
about 10,000 cars pass a day. While there, we received a mix of catcalls, celebratory
honks, and cars pulling over to take photos or to exchange contact information
to request/commission mural projects. These everyday moments of contact are
strong examples of the extent to which graffiti in León is increasingly
accepted and even celebrated by the average resident. Stef and Kane’s reactions
to the city, and appreciation for its textured surfaces also indicates the
promise that León holds as a graffiti epicenter. Stef executed a somewhat site
specific piece, her name in the style of hand engraved leather with jocular
flowers surrounding it, Kane an abstract and atmospheric multicolored piece.
Mersi, Zhot, Brote, JHard and Wes painted the middle section of the wall with a
mix of lettered pieces, elaborate and abstract designs, a futuristic hip hop
robot, and a face, complimenting the eyes staring at us from the opposite
underpass. The opposite side of the highway, another bridge, had been painted
by the team a few months ago and was a medley of different styles including a
rudimentary hand created by the breakdance instructor, Neo. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, in September I met with Dr. Guillermo Adrián Tapia García, a professor in the social sciences department at Ibero, and the research team for the Instituto Municipal de Juventud. Dr. Tapia Garcia spoke eloquently about the emergence of "youth" as a social category, and a subject for academic analysis, an emergence that is fairly coterminous with the urban "boom" in the Del Bajio region. "Youth" are not a transhistoric or a trans regional category: economic, social, geographic, and political contexts inform when and how youth emerge. Moreover, there is a vexed relationship between youth and concepts of "citizenship" and public space because many early youth collectives were in fact Catholic groups working <i>against</i> a secular understanding of the state. The places where graffiti became a social problem in León, he explained, are precisely the spaces of contention in the wake of modernization policies or deeply routed European/Indigenous urban divides. López Mateos was constructed about 40 years ago, and was created through violently destroying and rupturing numerous neighborhoods. The Malecón is a 'natural' border between what were Spanish and Indigenous settlements in León. Madero has long been the iconic walkway for the city, connecting the arch to the central plaza. That graffiti should begin in appear on these spaces <i>en masse</i> is offers significant evidence of a certain expression of voice by the displaced, the angry, or the talkative. Meeting with Roberto Ortiz, a photographer working on a history of rap in León, he discussed the centrality of the <i>barrio</i> as a social and imaginary site for the creation of rap culture and the <i>mercado tecnico</i> as something that only <i>some</i> rapper aspire to enter into, largely a decision dictated by class (those of working class backgrounds are more committed to rap staying outside of profit regimes, he commented), a kind of tendency that may also resonate with graffiti worlds. He, too, talked about the way that the contemporary image of León, and the historic center's pedestrian walkways in particular, are relatively recent constructions, the product of initiatives designed to play up a new and particular image of the city (possible creative cities discourse localized in the Del Bajio context). To track in coming months is the <i>kind</i> of urban image Muraleon brings into focus.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting the Campestre mural, 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opposing mural, Campestre and Malecón. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kane One. In process. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zhot detail. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brote detail. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JHard in process. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mersi in process. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zhot in process. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mersi detail. 9.24.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muraleon team and Stef Skills. 92.4.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stef skills. 9.25.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kane One mural, Muraleon team. 9.23.17.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stef Skills, Neo, Jonathan. 9.25.17.</td></tr>
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Thank you to the IMJUV research team, Roberto, Guillermo, Sirik, Quena, Uriel, Brote, Ante, Kif, Ruben and others for rich discussions this month. This project is made possible through the Beca García-Robles/Comexus and Fulbright Western Hemisphere.</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-17229053864426496912017-09-04T09:41:00.004-11:002017-09-04T09:47:26.621-11:00León Guanajuato, August, Month 1: Multiple Cities<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
This marks a little over a month
since I have arrived in León. Though I have visited five other times, living
here for an extended period is much different. You get a sense of the daily
rhythms of neighborhoods, of the larger cultural calendar of the city, the
impact of the seasons and more durational conversations or worries be they
related to environment, security, or politics. My aperture on these cycles is
particular, of course. As a tall foreigner, with light skin and very curly
reddish blonde hair, I stick out and I have particular kinds of mobility and
privilege. I live in a central area, so my understanding of the temporality and
spatiality of the everyday is one that is heavily inflected by tourism and
historic preservation imperatives. There are far more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bars</i> than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ferreterias</i> in
my immediate surrounds. My cultural landscape is often monumental, with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arco de Calzada</i> framing my entry into
ordinary errands. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And yet, it would be inaccurate to
state that this more heavily touristic region is without texture. The Arch and
the Paseo de Niños Heroes serves as a bike and running path, a site for dog
walks, a shady bench for lovers to meet, a distribution point for evangalists,
a commercial site for rotating markets, an educational site for
entrepreneurship and job fairs, a stage for break dancing competitions, a
resting place for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mariachis</i> during
their lunch break outside of the Museo del Toro. The plaza of Templo
Expiatorio, too, might seem to promote with its baby blue and pink icing exterior
that resembles but does not repeat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Notre
Dame</i> a certain Disneyfied landscape, one that is divorced from the grit and
grind of everyday working life. But this space, too, serves as a reunion point
for indigenous textile and fruit vendors, sellers of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">postres</i> in little mobile refrigerators, smoked nuts in vast
baskets, and alms beggars who line the entryways to the massive temple.
Families stream in and out of the church in Sunday elegance: towering stilettos
and shimmering suits, but so too do dancers clad in white and flowing fringed
indigenous costumes who dance in the plaza adjacent to the church, embodying
the cultural syncretism that defines but does not fix Mexican public culture.
The larger plaza is the stage for various festivals: Blues, Electronic,
Wednesday public dances where a band plays and couples ranging from their
twenties to their seventies move and embrace in the shadow of the church. More
itinerant reunions occur on the stones of the plaza where punks and
rastafarians gather to gossip and share news. They extend out along the central
street, Calle Madero, selling braided bracelets and copper jewelry. The bars
open between 5pm and 6pm and the street becomes another scene for ostentatious
display, younger patrons streaming in and out of bars, some out until 4am. <o:p></o:p></div>
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León is a city of leather,
technology, education, and business. By 1940 footwear was consolidated as the
primary industry of the city (33). Héctor Gómez-Vargas argues in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cartografias Urbanas y el Equipmiento Cultural
en León</i> that León is not one but “many cities,” an urban space with multiple
identities and worlds contained within it [1]. In the early 20<sup>th</sup>
century the majority of Mexico’s population was primarily rural. The 1950s saw
changing cultural norms, as well as changes in the urban landscape including “new
avenues, enlarged zones, consolidation of new social spaces for consumption through
new spheres and urban environments” like community centers and “franchises (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">franquicias</i>) coming from the outside,
like clones and redesigned social practices of different sectors of the
population” (18). <o:p></o:p></div>
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The 1950s also marked a shift in
the visibility and role of youth. Gómez-Vargas told me that the figure of the “rebel
without a cause” became prominent during the 1950s and the government’s
response was largely to create sports and work programs to try to mediate
youthful energy and activity. Guillermo Adrián Tapia García further explained that
this figure of the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">juvenile rebelled</i>”
who is “without work, without resources, hanging out on the corner” is an ongoing
concern in public discourse. The Youth Institute was founded to mediate youth
violence, both symbolic and physical. Though there was a period of extreme
repression of youth during Zero Tolerance “the government is not monolithic”
Tapia García reflected, and there can simultaneously be “mediation, giving youth
channels for expression), contraction, and control (police violence)” so there
are multiple <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">idioms</i> for the
government, that of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">canalización </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">violencia.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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The 1970s-1980s saw a massive rural
to urban migration, which Gómez-Vargas argues is one of the most significant
moments in Mexico’s history. The 1970s, then, was when the “question of
urbanism is posed…in León” and city institutions like the Urban Development
Department (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dirección de Desarollo Urbano</i>)
was founded, and an Urban Design Plan was published in 1978 (17). Local
universities added architecture majors and began researching urban questions. This
period of massive urbanization likely also implicated the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">physical</i> geography of the city, creating new spaces for youth
culture (car dealerships that became informal skate parks, hotels and banks
that provided smooth surfaces for tags) but also the affective cartography of
the city with intense anxiety about the urban “boom” and shifting cultural
mores. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Graffiti, my primary object of
study, is part of the weave of this complex texture of León’s “many cities,”
and by extension, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">many</i> youth worlds. Though
I’ve already heard testimony to that effect from writers like Daños, Nikkis, Kif,
Wes and punk activist Toby, where they have explained that writers also are
influenced by “ska, rock, punk, rasta” cultures, it is different to witness
such intermingling. </div>
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My second week in León I was lucky enough to attend three out
of the seven days of a week-long <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">JuventúFest</i>,
a Youth Festival organized by the city’s Insitituto Municipal de Juventud, the
Municipal Youth Institute from August 7 to 13th. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">JuventúFest</i> was the second iteration, though much more extensive
than the prior year, and it was meant to showcase the complexity and diversity
of youth culture in León, celebrating it; and also offer youth a variety of
resources and lines of support courtesy of the Institute or its partners. The festival
was organized into themed days: Research; Entrepreneurship; Ecology/Sustainability;
Identity; Youth Explosion; Expression; Tradition. The events were a combination
of expositions and performances; workshops; discussions; and inaugurations. On each
day a representative from the host site and the Youth Institute would open the
events, explaining the importance of the day (August 7 was International Youth
Day, and August is International Youth Month), and the site (sites varied from
University of Guanajuato, León, to Carcamos Park, to the Plaza of Expiatorio and
Parque Niños Heroes by the Arco de Calzada, to a small rural town called Valle
de Pedro Moreno).<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plaza de Templo Expiatorio. August 12, 2017.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Thus, the festival moved between different geographic nodes
in and outside of León. I may write a separate post about the festival alone, because
it was complicated and rich, ethnographically, but what was most impactful for
me was to learn about </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">rhetoric</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> of diversity
of youth cultures (a claim repeated many times by Director of the Municipal
Youth Institute, Ricardo Morado), and the visibility of such diversity through
the different events (ecology, hip hop, African dance, salsa, rock, technology
and start up culture, graffiti, indigenous history and culture, important
differences between male and female gangs of youth, comics, tattoos, etc). Such
interdependency between different strands of youth culture was most apparent on
the last day when we took three buses up the mountain to Nuevo Valle de Pedro
Moreno. This rural town had been a location for previous Youth Institute
activity. A youth institute employee, Anna, explained that it is a site of </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">baja recursos,</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> limited resources, and
they offered a variety of workshops that filled in gaps in school curriculum,
things like comparative studies and literature. The Youth Institute also made
some urban art interventions, painting “Animals, birds, things from the region,”
graffiti writer Zhanko explained. On the bus we were a combination of writers
(Zhanko and Kart), historians, and musicians and friends. And these individuals
worked collaboratively to create a festival, inviting space in the central
plaze of Nuevo Valle, whether it be via paintings done previously, or live
music played in the moment.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuevo Valle de Pedro Moreno. August 13, 2017.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Nuevo Valle de Pedro Moreno. August 13, 2017.</td></tr>
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As a result of going to the Youth
Institute festival I was able to meet not only the graffiti writers employed by
the institute, a mix of older and newer generations of writers, but also the
break dancers, criminologists, rappers, and organizers who all work side by
side. Most of the writers working at the Institute are different than those who
were there from 2009 to 2015 (save for Chuen and Kart). The current
administration is supporting a kind of resurgence of urban art, of a (nearly)
comparable intensity as that of the first major period of sponsorship from
2009-2012 [2/3]. Since I have arrived two major urban art projects have been
completed and inaugurated. The first, a massive mural on Boulevard López Mateos
where it intersects 5 de Mayo Street. This mural offers an image of different
cultures of the world, that “we are all human and diverse” Onza remarked, and
the universal process of aging, showing from left to right a child to an old
man. The second project is a set of four massive murals on large apartment
buildings where the Malecón del Rio meets Valtierra avenue on Conjunto
Habitacional “El Duraznal”. These murals are portraits of famous Mexican
writers, including Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, and Rosario
Castellanos. The faces of the writers are grey and they are surrounded by
color. “This is an example of color therapy,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> (cromoterápia) </i>Onza explained to me in a personal interview [4], a
comment also repeated by another writer in an article about the mural in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El Sol </i>[5].<o:p></o:p></div>
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This month the institute is working
on opening up the Malecón del Rio as a legal space [6]. It is over 1000 meters
long and plays a comparable role to the LA river as a historic site for
writers. This project, among others, raises questions about the shift that has
happened from the writer being situated as a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">juvenile rebelde</i>" a “rebel youth” to an employee working for,
or alongside, the state. If the state is not monolithic, is it appropriate to
see the work of these artists as creating more nodes and spaces for creation, “stealing”
in the framework of de Certeau from institutions of power to make their lives,
and the lives of their compatriots, more livable, a sort of collective ethos? Or
is it better read as a kind of cooption, tethering the writer to another
popular narrative by the youth institute and for youth, that of the
entrepreneur, the savvy neoliberal subject who makes their own destiny? In the
former framework, inequality is taken as a baseline condition. In the latter it
is made invisible from discourses similar to Rawls’ “original position.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or perhaps creating more legal spaces and
parameters for graffiti allows practitioners to sustain a relationship to their
recollection and memory of youth, since, for many, youth is something that is
inextricable from graffiti because they discover the art form when they are
young, and use it as a way to survive and even thrive during the trials and tribulations
during this challenging period in life. The Malecón as a youthful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">topos</i>. Sometimes empty and dry, sometime
surging with water after one of the heavy rains, it is a space that is already
animated by inscriptions, legal and illegal, that give testament to the
plurality of worlds that inhabit the shared space of León.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mil gracias a: Comexus/Becas Fulbright García Robles; Universidad Iberoamericana León y el programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, Complejidad e Interdisciplinariedad; León Joven y el Instituto Municipal de Juventud; Mersi; Dafne; Onza; Era the Dog.</div>
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[1] Héctor Gómez Vargas, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cartografias
Urbanas y el Equipmiento Cultural en Leon, </i>León, GTO: Precesbac,
Universidad Iberoamericana León, 2001, p. 16.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[2] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caitlin Bruce. “Modalities
of Publicity: Leon's City of Murals Project” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inopinatum. The unexpected impertinence of Urban Creativity</i>, edited
by Luca Borriello, Christian Ruggiero, Salerno, Italy: ArtiGraficheBoccia,
2013.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[3] Interview with Dafne, August 2017.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[4] Interview with Onza, August, 2017.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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[5] Alfonso Díaz, “Dan color a edificios de departamentos,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El Sol de León, </i>July 13, 2017, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.elsoldeleon.com.mx/local/dan-color-a-edificios-de-departamentos">https://www.elsoldeleon.com.mx/local/dan-color-a-edificios-de-departamentos</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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[6] Interview with Mersi, August, 2017</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-28670607808999824912016-10-13T07:59:00.003-11:002016-10-13T07:59:51.647-11:00Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project, Public DebateLast I wrote, I was finishing field note writing for a research trip to León. This past week (10/6-10/8) I, along with my collaborators (Oreen Cohen and Shane Pilster) co-organized a set of events designed to spur conversations about the relationships between Chicago, Pittsburgh, and León in terms of urban histories, graffiti practices, and post-industrial and hemispheric exchanges. The first event was a public debate, co-sponsored with Pitt's William Pitt Debating Union around the them: "Should Pittsburgh have legal walls?" The second was a day-long symposium bringing together scholars and artists from Milwaukee, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Mexico to discuss the theme of post-industrial graffiti histories and futures.<br />
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In what follows I offer a summary of the debate, hoping to create some themes for further discussion at our next set of events in the spring, a public lecture by Dr. Jessica Pabón about feminist masculinities in graffiti and the hip hop diaspora, and a series of free workshops for youth led by Chicago artist Stef Garland and Leonese artists Kif, Nikkis, and Wes in collaboration with Pittsburgh organizations and artists (TBD). I will soon write a follow-up post about the symposium.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Participants included
Detective Alphonso Sloan from the Graffiti Task Force; Shane Pilster, graphic
designer, Urban Art Tour organizer at Carrie Furnaces, and graffiti artist;
Mike Mook, tattoo artist, father, and former graffiti artist responsible for
the “Mook Law”; Steve Root, a retired psychotherapist and social worker, who is
a volunteer with the South Side Graffiti Council and the South Side Community
Council Graffiti Watch (GW); Jason Mendez, our moderator, an educator, author,
and interdisciplinary theater artist and parent, who is part of the project
Sons of the Boogie; and myself, an Assistant Professor of Communication at the
University of Pittsburgh with a research program exploring transnational legal
graffiti. We also were aided by the efforts of the William Pitt Debating Union
public debaters; Christ Talbot, Toey Yi, and Aaron Hill, who asked some very
smart and incisive questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We began with each panelist offering a short introductory
statement. Jason Mendez discussed his work with Sons of the Boogie, which
included famous and foundational writer Phase 2, who was a master of styles and
pioneer in bubble letters, which later provided a platform for artists like
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Importantly, Mendez explained, Phase 2 distinguishes
between the term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">writing</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">graffiti</i>. He would call graffiti the
‘g-word’ instead preferring writing which points to the communicative,
aesthetic, and public richness of the art form. This is a positioned sustained
by many in the aerosol writing community, for example, Desi Wome in the Bay
Area. Mendez continued to discuss Phase 2’s role in creating the first graffiti
zine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">International Graffiti Times</i>,
which explored the essence and internal dynamics of the culture. He is
currently working on a memoir about growing up in the South Bronx, how it
figured as home, and the current risks of gentrification as many lose home and
history, or of representational elisions, in such media artifacts like “The Get
Down,” which, Mendez cautioned, romanticizes the 1970s and 1980s in the Bronx.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Detective Sloan opened by highlighting the fact that we was
a writers between the ages of 13 to 21 or 23, stopping when he began working
for the city as a police officer. He argued that he supports urban art, and
public art, which can support knowledge and education. Pittsburgh had a legal
wall in the past, he argued, along the Eliza Furnace Trail, otherwise known as
a the Jail Trail. The hope was to offer artists an outlet and to contain
graffiti. “It had the opposite effect,” Sloan lamented, explaining that in the
early 2000s Pittsburgh saw a spike in graffiti, and artists would come to paint
the permission wall but would also “paint everything on their way in, and on
their way out.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He noted that he
respects artists like Basquiat, Ecko, and Keith Haring who learn how to
transition into legal and commercial venues, like graphic design.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steve Root opened by defining the South Side Community
Council’s work, and how they began to deal with issues of graffiti. He isolated
“long term working class property owners” as the primary victims of graffiti
vandalism, and that such writing functiosn to devealuetheir property values,
and there is a legal system that fails to hold writers responsible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Graffiti Watch (GW) seeks to take
responsibility as a community and send the message that the South Side is
valuable. Preventing vandalism, Root continued, is an ongoing process, and he
had no illusions that graffiti could ever be eliminated. Instead, it is a
dialectical relationship with taggers, an ongoing and sustained effort. He
noted, however, that through conversations with Shane Pilster and learning more
about the culture, that graffiti involves intense feelings of place, and
empowerment, and being creative such that the current polarized relationship
between writers and GW does not accomplish goals of inclusion. He was
interested in the Rivers of Steel project, and had also studies legal walls in
Toronto, Montreal, Quebec and Wynwood Walls. Moreover, he acknowledged that
buffing is its own form of graffiti and censorship. It takes place in the idiom
of graffiti, arguably. Instead, he was moving towards a model of ongoing
conversations with the goal of aachieving mutual respect. In that spirit, GW
has enlarged its focus. They want to support creativiting and inclusion, to
celebrate diversity, perhaps in the manner in which property owners have
transformed the Fox way on 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> street.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shane Pilster discussed how he arrived in Pittsburgh in 2004
and soon after was arrested for illegal graffiti. He had started writing in San
Francisco between 1998 and 1997. He was required to do a lot of community
service, the result of which is that he now considers himself more of a
“reformed artist” and has been meeting with community groups. This point was
later developed in the debate as a discussion about more effective
penalties—the idea was raised that community service was particularly important
because it helps the writer actually know the communities that they painted
in/on, perhaps fostering more mutual understanding. Shane emphasized that the
history of graffiti is not just tags but it is an art form that spreads through
spaces, and creates opportunities. However, in Pittsburgh, people don’t get to
see a lot of really aesthetically elaborate pieces. This is partially due to a
lack of legal walls. There might be one in Homewood, but that is it. Instead,
to foster dialogue between writers and communities it is important to have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">several</i> locations, an art walk even,
giving a voice to all sides: the public, business owners, and artists. This, he
concluded, offers a middle ground that can work with everyone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mike Mook spoke next. He started writing in 1998 and was
extremely prolific until 2001. He was arrested for lots of writing, and has
since stopped doing illegal graffiti. Now he serves as a sort of liaison
between active writers and offering them legal options. He spoke of his
aspiration for the South Side to turn itno something like Wynwood Walls at Art
Basel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I spoke last, speaking about the importance of graffiti for
youth expression, and of public art for democratic culture. I spent a couple of
minutes why <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->the city of Pittsburgh relies on broken windows
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I think I will dedicate a separate post to elaborating this
argument, particularly with regard to Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the introductions Jason Mendez led a structured
discussion. He first asked about the stigmas that writers face. Shane remarked
that “most people see the ugly stuff” and don’t understand that writing culture
has many facets, such that the tagging is largely the “fame based” part of it.
Most of the public, he lamented, are not educated about the “better end of
things.” They don’t understand that some street art can actually increase
property value- like that of Barry McGee. He also lamented how the media will
lump together writing with gang graffiti, or political graffiti, assuming all
are the same, whether done by a toy or a vandal or someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mook pointed out that graffiti is a “broad
term” that doesn’t capture the nuances of the diversity of hand styles out
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Mendez also asked Detective Sloan about stereotypes about
law enforcement that he encounters. Sloan remarked: “There is a sketchy line
between public art and graffiti art—you can have public art on walls, like the
Sprout Fund murals, and we won’t prosecute that. We do prosecute people who
paint without permission.” He also noted that there are ordinances for people
who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allow</i> graffiti to remain or occur
on their property. There is a seven year statute of limitations for graffiti
crimes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mook also spoke to the question about treating writers with
no priors like violent offenders, and here we had a really interesting
discussion about proportionality and alternative options for legal response. He
pointed out how, when a lot of young writers are prosecuted, they are pressured
to admit to the felony charges to avoid jail time, not really understanding how
that felony record will impact them later in life. Shane added that it is a
proportionality question, that often writers can get more jail time than
violent offenders. A better alternative, he suggested, is for writers to work
in the communities where they painted rather than being sent to jail, because
in working with the communities, they will be better understood as human beings
and neighbors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Detective Sloan responded that they try to “work with”
offenders. And if the offender is willing to work with them, and is remorseful
they do not push for felonies. “100 misdemeanors does not add up to a felony,”
he emphasized, but instead pointed to a “formula” they had developed based on
the Graffiti Blasters’ costs, which is that damage is $300 for the first square
foot and $50 for every subsequent square foot of damage. We learned later that
these fines are higher if the paint is higher up and harder to reach (to
clean). Once there is over $4,000 square feet of damage it becomes a felony.
Felonies are usually applied, he said, when it is a repeat offender. Moreover,
they do not prosecute for every piece done, they usually stop at a certain
point because they could reach the millions soon, so, for example if a writer
has done “75 pieces we will usually charge them for up to 50 and then stop.”
GEMS, a young CMU student who was arrested months earlier had initially been
fined over $100,000, but they negotiated the fine down to $38,000 and reduced
his felonies to misdemeanors. Montana, on the other hand, who did not work with
the police and and had re-painted when on probation is going to be finedn up to
$700,000, because of lot of damage was to private homes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Responding to Detective Sloan’s claim that the Eliza Furnace
Trail wall <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caused</i> an increase in
graffiti both Shane and Mook pointed out that there was a spike in graffiti all
over the US, because it was a time in the early 2000s where instead of trying
to go “all city” writers were vying to paint “all country,” to get their name
up everywhere. So there was a lot of travel for the explicit purpose of
bombing. Though permission walls wont stop all graffiti, Shane added, by having
older more established writers painting there it functions as a draw, where
younger writers will want to watch, learn, and work with them. Back in the day
there was less direct communication, mostly only Myspace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mendez also asked Sloan about being an artist of color when
he did graffiti. Sloan noted that when he was painting, especially along the
Busway between 1983 and 1984, most writers were young black kids, but also that
there was a code and they did not paint on private property. The Stanton
Heights Mall was one of the first places where they did graffiti. Mook added
that class differences matter, because the impact of being prosecuted hurts
poorer youth more than wealthier ones. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the Pitt Debaters, Chris, asked Shane and Mook if,
given that a lot of writers see graffiti as rebellion, will legal walls satisfy
that need and the thrill-aspect? Both laughed and said no. Root added that
“illegal graffiti has a purpose” enabling a “sense of belonging and a means of
expression.” Shane and Mook also addedthat it is not all or nothing- his work
with Rivers of Steel since 2012 shows how dialogue is key, and once they opened
space and spoke with writer there was much less dialogue- only 10 instances of
vandalism in 4 years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Debater Toey asked about proof for the broken windows
thesis, and how Sloan distinguishes between graffiti and art. An interesting
distinction that emerged was that, according to Sloan, anything done in aerosol
could be considered graffiti, even if it was image-based. Moreover, he cited a
city ordinance that bans the deployment of large letter-based work in
public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not respond to the
question about broken windows theory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aaron asked about how de-stigmatize graffiti. Many pointed
to education, Root said that it was important to know the difference between
the “junk” and “genuine art”; Shane references his work with Hip Hop on Lock,
using educaton to bring publics, communities and schools together. Sloan noted
that he doesn’t hate the art, he just hates where it is painted. Root argued
for a policy and procedure liaison with respect to graffiti in each
neighborhood, because, he argued, each neighborhood has special needs and their
character and culture are distinct. He called for communities to take
responsibility by addressing the big picture: race, class, and the development
process, appreciating different motives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this debate panelists raised interesting questions about
the difference between “clean” and “messy” walls, activating implicit questions
about what the value (or threat) of “messy” walls are. Moreover, it pointed to
how the law, as written, offers crude distinctions between “graffiti” and “art”
mainly based on medium (aerosol vs. brush) and style (letters vs. images). Of
course, these distinctions do not acknowledge the complexity and nuance of contemporary
writing culture where aerosol can be used to create images, and where (as it
has always been the case) hand styles, lettering, involves high levels of
artistry and skill. Finally, what was interesting was how the current law
incentivizes property owners to act aggressively against graffiti because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> get fined for having it on their
walls. This element of the Pittsburgh ordinance (last updated in April 2016)
pits property owners against writers, making dialogue or collaboration less
likely. The ban on text, too, acts as a barrier for permission and commissioned
works on private laws. Crucially, the law is not fixed. It is made by humans,
and it can be changed by humans. The question is, what kind of social model do
we want it to reflect? What kind of art cultures do we want to create?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-88055582444090707042016-05-29T02:38:00.001-11:002016-05-29T02:38:03.518-11:00Leon Guanajuato: Voces Ciudadaños en Aerosol, Research Update<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I meant to write
this post two weeks ago but my partner’s accident and our move to a new house
has thrown things behind. So this is the first time I’ve had a moment to try to
recover some of the wonder and elation that I was feeling at the end of the
trip: new things discovered and yet lots more to uncover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was in Leon 23
April to 7 May, a two week stretch that allowed me to conduct 23 interviews, go
to a graffiti festival, see some works in progress and a “street art” class,
and conduct a couple of mini-recorridos. I have to say first that none of this
would be possible without the organizational finesse of Karina Kif and her
friend Vincente who helped to navigate me from place to place, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pesero </i>to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oruga, </i>chaperoned me in some of the more conflictual neighborhoods
where it would not be prudent to go alone, and helped me out with some of the
slang that went over my head in interviews. And of course the rest of the
writers whose stories form the backbone of this project. I also spent a good
chunk of time at the Archivo Municipale Hemeroteca, going through over 30
folios of the daily paper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AM. </i>This
trip I was looking at papers during the first Ciudad de Murales project,
roughly December 2009 to October 2011, tracing whether and how the descriptions
of writers changed during this period of official legal graffiti support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I learned a lot,
but here I’ll just highlight some of the themes that I encountered in
interviews, and some of the surprises I experienced in the archives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One insight that this trip reinforced is that more than the
testimony of a few individuals, this art practice in León is a resource for
expressing collective fears, hopes, and processes of reshaping public space to
be more accessible to a wider range of citizens. Oral history interviews testify
to this fact. Drunk, a writer who started in the late 1990s noted: “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Graffiti is important because you feel it
in the heart. It is something fantastic. … it is a phenomenon and a form of
expression that the government doesn’t give us. It is something you see and
say, ‘wow! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no manches!</i>(I don’t
believe it!)” (2016) His brother, Cuate, also noted, “graffiti is a way of
life, not a [mere] past time,” and allows him to criticize government
practices, notably, how they instrumentalize street culture to gain popularity.
He recalled: “The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Casa de Cultura</i> had
this logo of a spray can dressed as a b-boy, so I would do graffiti using that
same symbol to make fun of them, because they give us the very tools to mock
them…there is corruption, they don’t listen to us, and they don’t care, so
graffiti is a form to express this frustration” (Cuate 2016). Cuate showed one
of his critical pieces: a drawing he made around 2002/2001 of Vincente Fox and
George Bush touching figures like the Michaelangelo’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Man Touching God,</i> but they were suspended over La Frontera with
dozens of little crosses on the Ciudad Juarez side. In a similar fashion, old
school writer Crook recalled using graffiti to criticize disingenuous
governance practices: “During the elections I wrote this phrase, ‘Give us
tortillas not PAN de mentiras’ meaning, the lies that the Partido de Acción
Nacional offer” (Crook 2016). A younger writer named Sabio noted that graffiti
and hip-hop culture is “an important alternative to drugs or gang membership”
(2016). Graffiti also is a means of consciousness-raising about larger issues.
Warner, an old school writer who participated in the protests against Zero
Tolerance explained: “Graffiti can help society because it provides a message,
can energize the souls of people.” His work, he explained, “often includes
messages about respect for the natural world and the environment, as well as
criticism of police repression saying ‘too many pigs’” (2016). La Kausa, a
young writer and organizer of a legal graffiti expo held in the conflict-ridden
neighborhood San Francisco noted at the Criminal Company Expo on May 1: “Events
like this are important because they give an opportunity for people to see
graffiti not as graffiti but as arte it is a way to express ourselves: the
problems, and the pieces express what we feel. Graffiti is the only way to get
the problems out and you can reflect on the work on the wall” (2016). In a
similar vein, Espos described graffiti as “therapy” (2016). Painting on a
crumbling wall across from a small library and large market across the wide and
dusty road Wreck, one of the earliest writers in León agreed: “Graffiti is a
means of expression. Many times people don’t have the ability to express
themselves, and graffiti gives people this means through letters…[it] can help
society by making it better, opening spaces, not sure if can change drugs or
delinquency but as a means of expression for youth it is good. Some use it to
stay out of drugs or trouble” (2016). This idea was supported by a young writer
named Nespo (2016). Keim, a middle school art teacher and old school writer
noted: “My students in San Marcos, a conflict filled neighborhood, they often use
graffiti as an alternative to drugs etc. It is something that the gangs use,
but I am trying to show them that there is another opportunity to explore, it
lets them leave violence behind.” (2016) Lalo Camarena, Subdirector of the
Municipal Youth Institute explained that graffiti s a “a form of expression for
what the youth feel, a way to deal with the problems that face adolescent
identity, the search for acceptance…now many are making a living from graffiti,
channeling it.” (2016) It is crucial that the government and broader society
understands the way that graffiti is a form of expression, Keim explained,
because otherwise there are “inhumane” policies like Zero Tolerance where youth
are judged only based on appearances and are treated with indignity (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another is some
thinking about the affective dynamics of aesthetic practice that cuts across
genres. The night I arrived in León was the screening of a film about the
Leonese skate scene sponsored by “Hey Dog!” shoes. The film showed snapshots of
skaters in action, using surprising surfaces and taking intense bodily risksin
some ways to me a dance-like extension of graffiti’s appropriation of a variety
of urban surfaces. But what I was more interested in was the way in which in
the process of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">making</i> practitioners
when they are in a moment of flow practice <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absorption</i>,
what Sedgewick marks as a kind of screen or fold that one’s attention or
interest makes between oneself and the world, yet, it can lead to a blush
because it is a public performance of such absorption. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Third, this trip
focused pretty heavily on talking to members of the old school, writers who
started in the late 1990s and who experienced Zero Tolerance. Through these
interviews I learned more about the dynamics of the early community, how
Miercoles Tagger (Tagger Wednesdays) was an important social institution, but
not for all, for instance, crews like BR and autonomous writers did not really
partake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">BR Crew. Graffiti Expo San Francisco. 2016.<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Different
communication technology, unsurprisingly, also mediated the structure and
frequency of meetings writers would have—many described trajectories of
cross-city walks where one would pick up different writers along the way. Mexico
City was a key stylistic influence and early writers self-published zines with
copies and clippings of graffiti work they saw on trips to DF. Moreover, I learned
more about the scope of Zero Tolerance, which was a campaign against graffiti
carried out not only in the newspapers but on the airwaves and TVs—writers like
Biers still remembered the jingle in its entirety. “They played it on the radio
every day” he remarked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Nikkis and Biers. En proceso. 2016.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fourth, the
dynamic or relationship between image based work and text based work resurfaced
in interesting ways. Bone commented on how the tag is viewed with suspicion or
disgust precisely because it is a trace of an individual—it is impossible to
repress the singularity of the tag. In this way the tag works against norms of
liberal universality wherein public space is not meant to reflect the race,
class, sex or other particularities of groups. Obversely, Keim argued that the
tag becomes a word-image, empty of signification. She noted of her style: “It
is simple letters. Old English. We call them Letras Goticas, or really Letras
Cholas—no, seriously! My art teacher even called them that. Just letters and
colors. I don’t do characters or cartoons. These letters when repeated become a
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">symbol</i> an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">image</i> they lose all signification and then it means whatever the
viewer experiences aesthetically and that is art—its not important what it
means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only what it provokes. </i>For
instance, Cope2, who does these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bombas de
chicle</i> (bubble letters) his name doesn’t mean anything, but all of the
youngsters in my school know it and can repeat it, and so can I.” These
statements provide interesting texture for thinking about one of the larger
research questions of the project, which is how graffiti complicates, claims
and reimagines public space and what a right to the city means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2012 work, Las Molinas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Author unknown. Las Molinas. 2016.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shady, Dafne, Sen. Instituto Municipale de Juventud. 2016.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kif &Shady, 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuen, 2015.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also spoke
with Professor Hectór Gómez Vargas, a sociologist who focuses on youth identity
in the Guanajuato region. He offered some crucial historical and contextual
insights about the history of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">city</i>
as it relates to youth culture. For instance, he marked the year 1989 as a key
turning point for the city as it entered a more global market. Between the
1950s and the 1980s youth culture “exploded” in León, influenced by U.S.
cultural objects like the films <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel
Without a Cause</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Warriors </i>(indeed,
when I first met Nikkis he was wearing a Warriors t-shirt). In the 1970s
Beatlemania took hold of León and “the city went crazy, they didn’t know what
to do [about the phenomena]. This is the subject of Dr. Gómez Varga’s current
research project, what he views as “an incendiary period for moral panic” and
such 1970s anxieties, he believes, shapes how youth are treated today. Another
key offshoot from 1989 is the legacy of the Panista government, marked both by
corruption and more business-person-oriented models of governance (this also
explains the harsh Zero Tolerance background, because there are tight ties
between businesses and the state) but also social programs that draw attention
to things not previously treated by the government (women, youth, etc.) They
did three key things in this early period: a larger and more serious municipal
archive, more funding for the Cultural Institute of Leon (ICL), and founded the
Casa de Juventud. In his view, early graffiti (pre-1990s) was meant “to insult”
with phrases like “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chinga tu madre” (fuck
your mother),</i> later graffiti was about claiming existence and identity, “Aqui
estoy” and is more of an international formation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zero tolerance,
he noted, was a Panista program, and it took place at the time where government
entities and businesses were trying to open Guanajuato to new markets in Korea,
North America, Japan, Italy, Germany—trying to attract <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">investors. </i>They were also expanding the Mexican art scene—trying to
create economic development in Leon there was a big tourism push, so they
developed more cultural manifestations, night life, Fox Sports. They were
opening micro busineses for youth. And the University of Guanajuato expanded a
lot, and it became possible to have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">carreras</i>
(majors) like Arte and Cultura. There was also a move to recuperate the
historic center and promote nightlife for consumption. Zero tolerance, given
this context, becomes more interesting because it throws into relief how
graffiti is positioned during this period as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not fine art</i> but instead a “hygiene and safety” issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A lot of this
was corroborated in the archives, namely, that graffiti writers are dignified
as artists only when they make interventions into cultural patrimony and fine
art, with the Cine de Oro (Golden Age of Cinema) mural painted in a tunnel of
the Malecón and the Bicentenio murals, also painted in 2010. These murals are
lauded (in opinion pieces, no less!) because they constitute legible
contributions to official culture. Another interesting moment was the first
reference to graffiti writers as artists (versus vandals) which occurs in a
short article criticizing police violence against artists at a graffiti gallery
show. It turns out the gallery was Wes’, the first in Mexico, and one of the
artists assaulted by the police was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nikkis (both go unnamed in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AM </i>piece).
Is victimage what admits one into the polity? Is violence the price of
admission? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, another evolution of the project, beyond the book,
is to initiate a cultural exchange program between my home city of Pittsburgh
and León. There are important and interesting parallels between the history of
graffiti as an urban problem in León and its urban “boom” and the conjuncture
facing Pittsburgh now. During 2015-2016 I have noticed a sharp increase in anti
graffiti activities, but also a kind of demonization and repression of youth,
both by the city and in public discourse. Consider, for instance, that in a
local neighborhood conversation website, NextDoor, that the arrest of a
20-year-old Latino graffiti writer is hailed as a great success and that
multiple adults call for him to be punished with “several years in jail!”
dismissing any concern about the role that graffiti might play as a means of
public communication. I’ve been told by the curator of Pittsburgh’s industrial
heritage urban arts program, Shane Pilster, that such vehemence is largely due
to a lack of exposure: there have not been substantive conversations about
graffiti (and the possibility of legal graffiti) in Pittsburgh. Indeed, when a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City Paper</i> front page raised the issue,
the comments sections were full of anger about “hooligans” and “vandalism.” To
that end, I believe that the artists in León who have been negotiating public
discourse and educating non-graffiti-writer publics about graffiti for the past
seven to ten years have much to teach us in Pittsburgh about how to craft
spaces for youth voice that can work in concert with institutions, or
creatively work outside of them. Thus, as part of a broader hemispheric
exchange project about art, social change, industrial history, and hemispheric
movements, I am working with a collaborator, public artist Oreen Cohen, to
bring Leonese artists to Pittsburgh to work with Pittsburgh artists,
participate in a symposium on graffiti history, culture, and futures, and lead
workshops for K-12 Latin@ youth from Pittsburgh’s public schools. The Municipal
Youth Institute of León is excited about an extended cultural exchange, so this
would be the initial step in that direction.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">** a hearty thanks to Villanova's WFI Research Grant for funding, as well as the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Hewlett International Grant at the University of Pittsburgh.</span></div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-80200240194363842372015-11-05T04:58:00.002-11:002015-11-05T04:58:00.929-11:00Bearers of Ill Feeling and Gentrification DebatesYesterday in class we were talking about happiness scripts, cruel optimism, late liberalism and exhaustion in the brackets of recognition, and the unequal distribution of emotional legibility, among other things. A student (Curry Chandler) gave a really interesting presentation about Smart Cities initiatives, reading, among other things, the way the language of big data and utilitarian rationality was used to made a total claim to the "social good." In this sense, he argued, happiness is a "technology" (a la Berlant insofar as citizenship is affective, and Povinelli with regards to how the brackets of recognition involve surveillance and espionage, for daniel gross as a kind of contouring of hte social, and crucially, how Ahmed tracks the intrinsic nature of empire as the burden to promote the happiness of the many). In this sense, affective rationalities are used to justify programs that shape the physical and social environments of populations, and these populations are always already given "voice" through the gathering of big data.<br />
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However, mere numbers in a survey likely isn't equivalent to "voice" in its thick sense. E. Johanna Hartelius has explored how a UN crisis response program mobilizes big data to respond "in real time" to crises, in their emergence, not belatedly. Populations are accounted for simply by being counted (numerically, biologically, as data points). Here political life and mere life blurs (Agamben is helpful here) and mere existence is commensurate with political existence, though, of course, planners operate on a separate and more elevated plane.<br />
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In the context of Smart Cities then it seems like languages of objectivity, progress, "innovation", and utilitarianism collide to create a new sense of the "good" that takes on the status of common sense. Euphoria about new tools is elevated into a kind of abstract sense of flourishing. There is a lot here, but one thing that came out of the conversation was a small discussion about how city planners engage with questions of gentrification (tomo asked this) with respect to smart cities.<br />
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I imagine that this conversation is well trodden ground, but I'm interested in learning more about it. Several years ago I explored the relationship between GIS, systems of legibility, and gentrification narratives in a speculative key. In this contemporary conjuncture, there is perhaps a kind of continuity with respect to what is sayable and unsayable in the wake of technological optimism. Ahmed's chapter on the Melancholy Migrant traces out how migrants become figures of melancholy insofar as they hoard experiences of injury and refuse to "let go" of racism, continually souring scenes of liberal multiculturalism. Paradoxically, these bodies that experience racism are resignified to be the cause of racism's continuation in an ostensibly post-racial moment. And so there is a perverse duty NOT to bring up racism as a migrant body, what Sam Allen characterized as a negative duty not to say, and a positive duty to share objects of happiness (national identity).<br />
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I think that this imperative to not speak the name of structural violence inheres in gentrifications discourses (or silences) in the wake of urban development. In a neighborhood listserv, "Next Door Lawrenceville" a neighbor raised the seemingly dead horse of gentrification in a lament about how grandmothers are being priced out of the neighborhood (race was explicitly NOT stated, another instance of the duty to not name racism). There were a variety of responses, some in the register of offense (you criticized boutique shops, but I am a boutique shop owner and I've put labor and heart into the neighborhood); some tracing out structural discrimination to ALMOST point out how racism is enacted in gentrification (Black folks were excluded from post WWII home ownership programs and neighborhoods like Lawrenceville were part of redlining practices where poor and people of color are relegated to amenity-poor, low-quality housing stock and wealthier and whiter folks are concentrated in more pleasing districts, so, "gentrification" is not bringing social goods in, but taking advantage of a long term process of real state devaluation that sets the stage for revaluation by developers who have the resources and liquidity to intervene in impoverished zones); and calls for civility (let's all get along). In this strange scene, hurt feelings, haunting stories of structural violence, coagulate in a message board that is policed by an imperative to not get too combative. Among other things, what is notable is the repeated trope of how it is NOT a conversation about gentrification but a rehashing of "old/new lawrenceville." This violent temporal generalization makes gentrification a story of progress, and complaints not only the symptom but cause of ill-feeling, but also a kind of nostalgic anachronistic discourse. Finally, what Ahmed seems to point out is that actually engaging questions of social difference involves uncomfortable conversations, agonism instead of consensus.Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-36687254305702046042015-08-03T08:47:00.002-11:002015-08-03T09:05:47.335-11:00MOS France 2015: Showcasing Global Graffiti<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://www.meetingofstylesfrance.com/">Meeting of Styles France</a>, held July 18 to July 26, offered an immersive hip hop experience where spectators could enjoy displays of skill in graffiti, break dancing, and skating, as well as opportunities to learn about the history of the art form. Housed again at Casa Musicale, a cultural center that is surrounded by beautiful ruins, additions this year included Cinemos (a movie series), as well as Pause Culturale, a library collection of books related to graffiti, street art, and hip hop. I conducted interviews with Icat, Pinche, Vinie, Still Same, Kenya, Pyrate and Insect, Djalouz, Yome, Angelique Germain, Tretze, and Mezy, and expect to do some web-based interviews later this week. Transcripts will be available on this site later on. I am deeply grateful for the organizers and the artists for allowing me to continue my research on the festival.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tagging competition in cultural center. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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The festival doors opened on Saturday afternoon, but painting did not start until around 6pm, giving me some time to conduct interviews before painting began in earnest and writers were working against the clock, and the sun, to finish their pieces. I found a cluster of Spaniards, by language, and first talked with Icat, from Andalusia. Her name, she explained, comes from a conjunction of her given name, Mónica, and her love of cats, thus, Icat. The scene in Andalusia, she told me, is relatively small, and it is at festivals like MOS that one can build connections and learn new styles. Her style is more of a wildstyle, with exaggerated and bending letters. I then met Pinche, who hails from Madrid. His piece ended up being a quasi-realist reference to the festival theme, "Mind over matter," with a portrait of a man, half of the face flesh, and half bone, and the words, "mind/matter" written in ink pen. The scene in Madrid, Pinche noted, was "very harsh" and the city "very grey" with a great deal of buffing and tough police response.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ICat. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icat. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icat. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icat. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pinche. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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Soon after, I met Vinie, whose work I have followed since 2012. Her work is iconic, with the figure of a girl, with hair composed of paint flicks, ribbons of letters, or natural surroundings. It is marked by a high level of polish, something that is more visible when seeing her in process, and seeing the nearly infinite layers of paint that she even blends with the slap of a cloth. She remarked on her time in Toulouse being formative for her style.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vinie. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vinie. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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I then say hello to Still Same, a writer from Wiesbaden who helps Manuel organize the festival there. His work is usually character based, monsters that are fearful, but often with a surprising and "cute" element: this year it was a sharp-toothed shark in a baseball cap and a potbelly, in a fishing boat. We discussed, among other things, his use of an English, rather than a German name. He exclaimed that MOS France was his favorite of the MOS festivals, for the energy, the beauty of the location, the high level of organization, such that his fatigue and frustration after a 21-hour bus ride with screaming children started to fade away.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still Same and FPLO. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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Already early in the festival there was a large audience, spectators that included families, children, dogs, as well as hip hop lovers. The food truck area of the festival was also more developed this year, with six different trucks, adding to the overall sense of festivity. There I found Gerso, the organizer for the MOS Mexico friends, who I met back in 2011 at MOS Mexico in Ciudad Neza. Gerso was given a spot on the front wall, next to Tretze.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gerso. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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I met Kenya, a Parisian writer, who has a kind of old school style, with flat, two dimensional but very wild letters, complemented by cartoon figures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenya (top), Berns (bottom). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenya. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenya and Berns. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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At about 4:00 pm the artists were called into the cultural center to do initial planning for the wall. In this sense, the projects were very improvised. Some had clear ideas of compositions and characters, but others waited to see who they were situated by, what colors they were given, and so forth. They took a group photo, and then went into a back stage area. I waited in the cultural area, watching children draw or read, and the occasional person plunk on the nearby piano.<br />
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Soon after the DJ called everyone to the main stage for a roll call. Each artist was called by name, and given their <i>cadeau</i> (gift), a pack of paint of about eight cans per person. In this way, audience and artists could assign names to faces, and publicly recognize and celebrate their fellows, the DJ urging cheers and clapping for each.<br />
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The artists soon get to work, and I return to my wandering circuit from walls to center to walls. I meet a Marc Beton, a lover and follower of the graffiti scene, who lamented the increasing commercialization of the scene. I then interviewed Pyrate and Insect, from Nîme, who did a complex character driven piece. Insect, in particular, is interested in abandoned or destroyed spaces. Soon after, I talked with Djalouz, a play on the word <i>Jalouse</i> (jealousy), which refers to the content and sometimes the affect that infuse the graffiti scene: resentments, jealousies, meannesses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Djalouz, Marko 93, Shaler (clockwise). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pyrat and Insect. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pyrat and Insec, Odeo, Haute en Couleur, ICat (Clockwise). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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At 8pm there is a screening of a short film by Angelique Germain, president of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hip-Open/205301739495298">Hip Hop Open</a>, and titled "Universal State of Mind," which explores hip hop culture in Senegal, Serbia, Paris, and Brazil. The scenes range from "activist" or "aesthetically effervescent" she noted in a short Q&A that followed the film. Immediately after we saw the Tour 13 documentary by Thomas Lallier, which covered a temporary project that took place in the 13ème <i>arrondissement</i> in Paris during October 2013.<br />
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Shortly before the tagging competition, "What's my Name," I had the opportunity to speak with Yome, an old school bomber from Paris, who talked about the importance of the St. Lazare station and the 19th arrondissement in the history of graffiti culture in Paris, namely because it was a dense and competitive space. He also reflected on the "bipolarity" of the Paris government's treatment of graffiti, that there is the very powerful Vandal Squad, on the one hand, and a thriving gallery scene, on the other. Moreover, there are different treatments of street art and graffiti, even if both are illegal. "They want to put a Lion in the zoo," he lamented, reflecting that many of the writers at MOS are not real bombers, some not having any experience in the illegal scene. Yet, he admitted, the festival served an important educational role, "most of the French in the south west don't really understand graffiti" and so the graffiti festival is one venue for enlightenment. He expressed optimism about graffiti's social effect, that it is a more positive outlet than many, and that he knows "many people who have been saved by graffiti."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Griffin, Yome, Nest (clockwise). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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At 9pm the "What's my name?" competition began, a tagging competition adjudicated by three experienced writers, where the competitors are given a three letter name to write, two cans of different colors, and seven minutes to write it, after which the judges decide which is the best. This competition offers a simulation of the pressures of illegal tagging, and demonstrates to the audience the level of skill, in terms of speed and technical capacity under pressure, needed to do even illegal work. One can see this education at work as spectators around me, ranging from little children to tourists would verbalize their opinions about the work: they are learning to be readers and critics of graffiti, and one can also observe their rapt attention. It is also a performance of expertism: the competitors are very experienced, and most hold themselves with the quiet confidence that, across genres, is evidence of feeling at home in a field.<br />
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Sunday was more relaxed in the afternoon, after likely many hours of partying. At 1pm there were few spectators, mostly the artists working slowly and carefully in the unrelenting sun. It was over 90 degrees fahrenheit and over 50% humidity. In the shady corridor where Kenya, Revs, Pablo, Berns, and others were painting I took refuge, and Kenya talked a bit about his process, how he does not like to paint everything at once, but rather, take his time to keep perspective. I noticed an older man, perhaps in his sixties, wearing a white shirt and khaki pants standing near me, holding an enlarged wooden crucifix as well as a carved cane. He engaged one of the writers in polite conversation about Jesus Christ. Soon after, a truck with municipal plates drove into the center area, and with high pressure wash and chemical spray, buffed some tags that had been painted on the brick ground.</div>
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I ran into Angelique (Angie), and had a chance to interview her. She mentioned an "almost brotherly state of spirit" that energized the festival, something that might not be as politically engaged as some other sites of hip hop she has observed where citizenship (<i>citoyenité)</i> is a driving concern. MOS, she reflected, is more about fun (<i>s'amuser</i>), enjoyment. I persisted in asking about the state of hip hop culture in France. She replied, thoughtfully, that France is on a more commercial path, as it is a capitalist country, though, of course, such commercialism does not hold for every cultural producer. In Serbia, and in Senegal, hip hope, she had observed, was less about monetary renumeration and more about the translation of negative experiences into art, or, in Latin America, about consciousness raising (<i>conscientizar</i>). </div>
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I found Kems, from Bordeaux, who has a kind of box-like wild style flair. His letters are angular in a big rectangular field with chunky letters. He noted that he was stylistically influenced by comics. I then talked with Tretze, from Barcelona, before he returned home. His piece was a two-story wolf, with jaws drooling. I persisted in asking about if his work had a particular message, and he replied no, that the wolf was, indeed, just a wolf.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tretze. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tretze. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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Indeed, Angie's insight about MOS France being more about enjoyment than politics rang true to me. The majority of artists emphasized the festival's purpose being about meeting up, hanging out, making new connections and viewing new styles. </div>
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At 9pm the dance battle begins, and this question of <i>esprit fraternelle </i>again was raised in the performance of the dancers, who went on in teams of three, but also the collective dances that the DJ invited, moments of intense conviviality that might not be polemical but also subtly shift the harsh boundaries between different groups. An old school break dancer, Funky Legs, served as judge, sitting in a lifeguard chair in front of the stage. Such conviviality continues in stories about previous festivals: FPLO, from Porte Allegre, Brasil, recounted tales of a road trip across the U.S. with himself, an Italian, and a German.</div>
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The next day, the official <i>vernissage</i> or art-opening yielded the mainly finished pieces. A Harley Davidson club had brought gleaming motorcycles, and they were positioned in front of various pieces, creating points of similarity and contrast. The tireless organizers were still there, though some no longer sporting MOS shirts. Many of the artists had departed, and the food truck area, amateur wall, and cultural center were fenced off. The space had more of a sensation of a collection than a live performance. Yet, the gleaming pieces, a range of lettering, realistic and fantastical figures, testified to the labor and diverse assemblage of bodies present at the site, yet another encounter between and among styles.</div>
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**thank you again to the organizers and the artists. felicidades/felicitation/congratulations!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mezy, Pinche, Kems (clockwise). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Djalouz (top). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vernissage, Monday. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FPLO Detail. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shane. MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scred (bottom). MOS France 2015.</td></tr>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-82041810353354419862015-07-28T09:27:00.000-11:002015-07-28T09:27:05.353-11:00MOS France 2015: Entretien avec Djalouz/Interview with Djalouz<br />
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A Parisian graffiti artist, Djalouz speaks about his influences and style. Thanks!<br />
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CB: I am here with Djalouz. It is the 18th of July at MOS France. So, when did you start to do graffiti, and why?</div>
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D: I started 12 years ago...first with bombing, and I liked that a lot, that one could do even bigger paintings, and quickly...so I wanted to develop [my skills] more, and here I am. </div>
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CB: And the name "Djalouz" what is the origin of that?</div>
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D: Djalouz is a bit in dedication to all the youth in this scene, where we talk a lot about jealousy, resentment...and also it has a nice sound to it, I liked very much the sonority of the word, and so, here we are. </div>
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CB: OK. How do you describe your style? What are your influences?</div>
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D: My style is most recently more thee-d style, but I also work with characters, forms...some of my influences include Marko, who is just painting there [gestures to Marko painting beside him] he was one of my influences when I began, so it is funny now to be painting next to him, and Marko 93 is from Paris also... there are also a lot of international people, like MTO, Dran...I like the style of DMV in general...</div>
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CB: And personally, what is the importance of this event, MOS France?</div>
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D: The importance of this festival? Of participating? I think that at this festival you can meet a lot of people, share ea lot with other artists, and to be able to connect and learn about different styles, that is the goal of this festival, a true mixing of styles, and it works well, it is cool. </div>
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CB: For the graffiti community, what is the significance [of MOS]?</div>
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D: What is the significance for the graffiti community? This meeting for the graffiti community is good because it allows a real meeting of new people, people who you would not have the opportunity to meet otherwise, from far away...this is an occasion to meet together. </div>
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CB: Who are the spectators you have seen here? What kinds of people? </div>
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D: I think a lot of artists, also a lot of art fans who are very diverse; families with children, adolescents, older people. </div>
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CB: Have you had any notable interactions or interesting interactions with audience members? </div>
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D: Not yet, but we haven't been here that long. </div>
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CB: Is this the first time that you have participated in MOS France? </div>
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D: No, this is the third time I've participated in this festival here, but I have also participated before in Switzerland, England, Germany, and Spain as well...so for me I have been participating for six or seven years. </div>
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CB: Have you observed any changes in the festivals?</div>
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D: Changes? You mean different things?</div>
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D: No, each time it is different. For instance, here, we have wooden panels, but in Germany and England we have walls not wood panels...but each festival has the same basic principle. </div>
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CB: Do you think there is a particular reason the MOS France festival is located here, in the city of Perpignan?</div>
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D: Non. I don't know why it is in Perpignan, though it has been five or six years here...it is good, because there are people here that want to organize it, but I don't think it hash particular significance, that it is here in particular, other than that in the South of France it is nicer weather, but I haven't wondered so much about why it isn't in Paris....</div>
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D: My definition of graffiti, at its base, is that of tagging, bombing...in the street...that is graffiti, simply, for me. My origins are in vandalism, of graffiti on the street, outside...but also [it can be done] with brushes or as a job, but that depends especially on the country and its culture. </div>
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CB: Does graffiti play a specific role in the city of Paris? </div>
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D: In Paris? Yes, I think so. It has played the role of vandalism and degradation for a long time, but there are also people who do pretty things, and so there is a mixture of tags, graffitis, beautiful decorations, and ti works well, and I think it is good for Paris as well. This is the decor of my city. </div>
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CB: I'd asked because I read in your biography that you were interested in particular in the sense of melancholy of abandoned spaces...</div>
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D: Yes, I like abandoned spaces a lot, it is my preferred location for developing my styles...I like to play with space a lot, but I paint each work to fit with its space, they are different [gestured to MOS wall]. With abandoned spaces one can play with the place, its decor, all of it. </div>
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CB: Do you believe graffiti can change the world, or communities?</div>
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D: Me, in my work, I don't really have a message, I just try to create some color in the street, to create something pretty, but with certain styles of drawing, of canvases sometimes there are more engaged messages that respond to social problems. But in my graffiti work like this [MOS] I don't have any message. I just try to bring my touch [to the festival]. </div>
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CB: OK. Is there anything more you'd like to say about your work or this festival? </div>
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D: I am very happy to be here and the festival is very well organized. There is not a lot of time but this is not a terrible problem...I am Djalouz, I hope to continue painting like this for a long time, and there you go. </div>
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CB: Excellent, thank you.<br />
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Artiste de graffiti Parisien, Djalouz parle de ses influences et style. Merci!<br />
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CB: Je suis ici avec Djalous le jour est le 18 de juillet MOS France. Alors, quand commencez vous à faire de graffiti et pourquoi?</div>
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D: J'ai commencé de graffiti il y a douze ans, et parce que j'ai sorté...j'ai essayé la bombe de peinture est sa truc m'a beacoup de souhaite donc on pouvait peindre en grand, on peut peindre vite et donc...j'ai envie de devellopper et voilá.</div>
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CB: Et la nom "Djalouz" quelle est l'origine de ça?</div>
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D: Djalous est un peu un dedicace a tous les jeunes dans cet milieu qui sont un peu toujours de parler a propos de ... de la jalousie, de la mechante, et parce que j'ai trouvé que l'a sonné bien j'aimais bien la sonnorité puis et voilà ce rester comme ça...</div>
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CB: D'accord. Commen decrivez votre style? Quelles sont votre influences?</div>
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D: Mon style est est le plutôt dans les lettres en trois-d, je travaille aussi de personnage, les formes de parfours, et voilà mes influences sont un peu justement de Marko qui est là [gestures to Marko painting beside him] qui etaient des mes influences quand j'etais commencer. Donc, c'est drôle parler à côte de lui... il y a Marko 93 de Paris aussi...il y a sinon beacoup de gens internationaux comment MTO, Dran, j'aime beacoup le style de DMV en génerale...</div>
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CB: Et personellement, quelle est l'importance de cet evenement, MOS?</div>
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D: L'importance de ce festival? De participer? Je pense que en cet festivale on peut rencontrer beacoup des gens, partager beaucoup avec les autres artistes, on peut faire connaissance de connecter aussi de differents styles, c'est le principe de cet festival de vraiment faire un mélange de style et ce marcher bien, c'est cool.</div>
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CB: Pour le communauté de graffiti quelle est le significance?</div>
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D: Quelle est le significance pour le commaunaté de graffiti? Ce ressemblement pour la commaunaté de graffiti je pense que c'est bien parce que c'est me faire vraiment de nouveau rencontre des gens, qui n'a pas d'occassión à connaître, c'est beacoup des gens connaisser, qu'on a rencontre d'ailleurs etcetera...mais la c'est l'occasion prendre ressemble.</div>
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CB; Qui est [sont] les spectateurs que vous avez voit ici? Quelle types des gens?</div>
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D: Je pense que [il y] a beacoup des artistes, aussi beacoup des amateurs mais les amateaurs d'art sont trés diverses; il y a beacoup de gens qui aiment ça, il y a des familles avec des enfants, des adolescents, des gens plus agées.</div>
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CB: Est-ce que vous avez eu quelque interactions avec l'audience remarquables, ou interessants?</div>
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D: Pas encore, mais ça commencez pas longtemps, oui avec quelque personne, on peu discute, après n'est pas evident, donc un temp de peindre...mais...</div>
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CB: C'est le premier fois que vous avez participer en MOS France?</div>
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D: Non, c'est la troisième fois que j'ai participe celui et j'ai participé déjà en Suisse, en Angleterre, en Allemania, en Espagne aussi...voilà pour moi c'est six ans, sept ans je participe...</div>
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D: Non, chaque fois c'est different parce que il y a ici on a panneau en bois, en Allemania et Angleterre ce sont de mur, pas panneau en bois...mais dans chaque festivale le principe de bas c'est la même.</div>
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D: Non, je comprends pour le festival en France, je ne sais pas pourquoi c'est à Perpignan mais il y a cinq, six ans comme ça...c'est bien, c'est parce que des gens ici on voulu la organisé, mais après Perpignan je pense que c'est il n'y a pas quelque signification particuliarement que soit à Perpignan, c'est la sud de la France, il fait plus beau, c'est bien mais je n'ai pas pensé pourquoi non faire à Paris...</div>
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D: Ma definition de graffiti, c'est a la bas c'est le tag, le bombing, c'est surtout, voilà c'est pratiquer de la peinture a la bombe, dans la rue, dans le terra vague, pour moi, c'est ça, le graffiti simplement. J'ai un bas, une origine dans le vandalisme, mais le graffiti c'est dans me terrance, d'est dans la rue, dans l'exterieure, c'est la bombe de peinture, après peut-être au pinceu ou boulot, ça depends de pays aussi, de culture... </div>
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D: À Paris? Oui, je pense, oui. Ça a eu longtemps le rôle de vandalisme et de degradation, mais c'est aussi de gens sont rende-cont qui a des belles choses, donc, le mélange comme ça des tags, de graffs, de decoration belle et tous, ça marché bien je pense que ça fait du bien à Paris aussi. Ça decor à mon ville.</div>
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CB: J'ai demandé parce que j'ai lu dans votre biographie que vous êtes interessé en le sensibilité de melancolie de l'espace abandonné...</div>
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D: De lieu et aprés...voilà, les lieux abandonnés j'aime beacoup, mais...c'est l'endroit que je prefère pour faire mes styles là, je joue avec le lieu beacoup...juste peindre chacun à sa place et comment fait mes trucs, c'est differents, mais, le lieu abandonné, on peut joue avec sa place, on peur joue avec le décor...tout ça.</div>
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D: Moi, dans mon travail de graffiti, je n'ai pas de message, j'essais de donner la couleur à la rue, de donner quelque chose jolie, mais avec certains styles de dessin...de toiles et tout, parfois des messages engagés justamment qui reponds à des problèmes qui a la societé, tout ça. Mais dans mon travail de graffiti comme ça [MOS] je n'ai pas de message, j'essais juste de apporté ma touche, voilà.</div>
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CB: D'accord. Quelque chose pluse que vous voulez dire sur votre travail, sur cet festival?</div>
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D: J'uis [je suis] trés content maîtriser le festival est trés bien organisé, on n'a pas beacoup de temp pour parle mais ça, n'est pas grâve...pour mon travail, moi je suis Djalouz, je suivre partout et j'espère à continuer peintre comme ça pour trés longtemps, et voilà.</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-21372667443496842072015-06-01T08:11:00.000-11:002015-06-01T09:08:15.827-11:00Let Her Be Elevated: Andy B's Exploration of Movement, Fearlessness, and Vulnerability<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I've known Andy for her mosaic work, in particular, a project she developed with the Chicago Public Art Group at Foster and Lake Shore Drive, Belmont and Lake Shore Drive, and Osterman Beach, and for her smaller scale projects as part of RedBull curates. Her work is frank, fresh, dynamic, and energetic. More recently I saw Andy perform in the Fierce Queer Burlesque festival in Pittsburgh this past month. Dancing to the "Sound of Silence," Andy offered a beautiful, and almost melancholy choreography with jerky arm, back, and leg movements, all the while her face covered in a shroud. This performance was surrounded by others, all different, from a woman that did a play on Catwoman Selena Pyle with a (submissive) lover, a woman doing a flamenco-type piece, a trans performer doing calisthenics with a glow in the dark hula hoop...and yet what united these performances, all extremely erotic displays of confidence and humor of the flesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Burlesque is the theme of Andy's new pop up show, "Let Her Be Elevated," where she uses the medium of glass, line, and light, to pay homage to a genre that has served as an inspiration for her, personally and aesthetically. In the show, one can understand glass not only as what one can see through, but full of color, memory, and lines. The viewer can also see surprising similarities between glass and flesh in terms of their fragility, expressivity, and that they are mediums of energy and light. The etchings that animate the majority of the work are part of a collaborative process, working with Sean Felix Andy created cut glass frames that serve as "homes" for the figures.</span></div>
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project from maybe an obverse angle from most of the show's potential
spectators-- I have seen your burlesque performance in person, but the art
works through digital images-- but this to raises an important question that
seems to be at the center of the exhibit. What does it mean to translate or
transform the live, three dimensional, embodied experience of burlesque into
colorful, flat, and fixed images? What do glass and light have to tell us about
this performance practice that maybe cannot be said in the same way as
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the first things you learn as a
burlesque performer is how to make lines with your body. When onstage standing
in the light and telling a story to the audience, your arms are strong and
posed, your legs, face, shoulders, everything has a purpose. The lines your
body makes on stage can setup the entire performance and the strength that lies
inside it. When I make art, I begin with lines. I draw curves, shapes, and what
I consider to be movement. When I transfer these lines to glass, I imagine the
cut glass to be shaped into forms that are posed and strong or move just right.
The images of burlesque dancers connect to the glassworks in many ways. First,
performers are standing in the light and waiting to be seen and different kinds
of light will effect what is seen on stage within the performance. Glass is
similar in that I imagine it also needing light to embrace all the things about
it that make it magnificent. In different light, each glasswork will take on a
completely new look and meaning. I don’t see the glassworks as flat like
paintings, but 3-dimensional with life and force and intension, just like
performers. By etching these performers’ portraits into glass, I feel like I am
acknowledging their strength and intention by permanently etching this moment
into glass shapes and lines that have been created specifically as a home for
each performer. Each portrait is chosen precisely because this specific
performer has inspired me at some time. I take this experience and carry it
with me through the entire process of drawing the lines the portrait will be
etched onto to carefully choosing a photographer to capture the exact image I
am imagining will work to evoke the feeling in the image that I am trying. Each
glasswork is created with a major intention of highlighting the beauty and
strength of each burlesque performer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My favorite piece has to be the one that has
made me cry a couple of times as I worked on it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called, “My Last Companion.” Featured in
this portrait are two burlesque performers, Tila Von Twirl and Switch the Boi
Wonder. They are two performers who met in the world of burlesque and ended up
getting married last October. The piece makes me feel super emotional because I
have watched their relationship grow over the past couple of years and have
witnessed first-hand the support they have given each other both on stage and
in their personal lives. It’s almost as if they use the art of burlesque to say
the things that are the most important to them and while one is on stage
telling this story, the other is always there watching, cheering, clapping and
supporting to the fullest extent. It’s love through art and love through truth.
But, the truth is sometimes hard, and not so easy to face which is why their
bond of love through this process is amazing. The strength they find in each
other directly channels into the work they put on stage. “My Last Companion” is
about finding that person who you imagine you will grow old with and who will
stand by and watch you light up on stage and off. Tila and Switch will be each
other’s companion for life and I have no doubt will continue to inspire people
through the art they create and through the people they are. I love them both
dearly and consider them to be two of my closest friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“My Last Companion”,</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> hand cut glass, etched portrait, 3 ft. x 4 ft.,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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statement you speak to burlesque as a practice (and community) that builds self
confidence. Can you say more about that? Having seen it for the first time at
the queer burlesque festival in Pittsburgh it seemed, yes, to involve lots of
nerve, but also a huge amount of vulnerability. Perhaps this is contained in
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The first time I had a spark of inspiration
for doing this exhibit and creating this work was during the rehearsals of a burlesque
show called, “Black As Eye Wanna Be” It was a burlesque show that featured the
work of Po Chop, one of the most amazing burlesque performers I have ever seen.
She created a collaboration to produce this work and asked me to be one of her
performers in the show. The essence of the show was about oppression and what
it means to feel oppressed. It was through this process that I realized I was
experiencing what burlesque is fully and completely. It was through this
collaboration that I gained the most self confidence that transferred into all
aspects of my life. I began to understand what it meant to be a part of a
community, to be vulnerable in front of your peers and eventually an audience
and what a true and meaningful collaboration of artists is like. I began to
journal the process and through this experience I developed a drawing that I
felt embodied our leader in this experience, Po Chop. I created a visual space
for her to sit and pose and be that was inspired by a photo taken of her by
fellow artist, M.C. Newman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I
designed the line work, I reached out to a local artist, a master glass etcher,
Sean Felix, to teach me how to etch the image on glass. We collaborated on the
piece and it was the first piece that came to life. He etched her into the home
I created for her and the collaboration sparked energy to create more etched
works. This energy was in direct alignment with what I was experiencing through
the process of Black as Eye Wanna Be and working with Po Chop. It was as if the
experience of collaborating for this show opened up some inspiration inside of
me that has been a constant flow from then on out. I feel open, alive, and
awake now and it was through the most vulnerable process I have ever been
through. Burlesque gave me the strength to pay close attention to who I am and
just be that person. Be that person in my art and in everyday life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I
think the only thing that comes to mind is that I am constantly coming up with
new ideas for how I think these glassworks can be. The more I work on them the
more ideas I have for future works and find new ways that I can tell stories
through this medium. I’m so excited to work through this process and really
push myself to make the artwork better and bring more meaningful stories out
through the pieces I created. It’s a humbling and energizing process to work
through something that makes you want to keep working. I feel lucky that I am
able to align my life with making art and grow as a person at the same time. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“Red Bone”</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> hand cut glass, etched portrait, 3 ft. x 3 ft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Photography:
Laura Nova, Mustache Jim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The show will open Friday, June 5th at R. Hanel Photography Studio, 119 N Peoria St., suite 3A,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with a reception open to the public from 6pm to 9pm. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Additional viewing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hours will be on Saturday, June 6th from 12 to 5pm with an artist talk starting at 2pm. More </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">information on these events can be found on the gallery’s website, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.elephantroomgallery.com.</span></div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-85705499750193415802015-05-04T03:13:00.000-11:002015-05-04T03:13:05.154-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Bill Steen, "Vortex," "Alhombra" and the Politics of Class in Historic DistrictingOn February 15th I met with Bill Streen. His words are "vortex" and "alhombra." In our discussion he brought up the fraught politics of historic districting, notably, the class exclusions that can occur. He reflected: "My wife and I signed a petition to not have the expansion of the district. I think all districts are historic and while I—because its city of asylum and river of words and its Guiselda and Carolina and Hector and Rafael—I hope they’re successful because it’s a positive thing, but there’s also a sort of irony, and maybe the less generous side of me says, “if they don’t get the commission or whatever to approve keeping the words maybe they’ve been hoisted on their own petard” and I don’t know, again, I think there was a lot of people within the historic district that were pushing for the expansion of it, which I think makes it difficult. I feel the historic district makes it difficult for people of certain socioeconomic levels to remain in place...<br />
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I’ve termed the expansion of the historic district “Redlining by Other Means” and it would be kind of ironic for people who, yes, the River of Words are a wonderful thing, but it would be ironic that say somebody within the historic district that doesn’t have the economic wherewithal at the time to make a much needed renovation to their home that would fit the very strict standards, if they weren’t able to do that, that a certain class of people was able to get the rules changed to do this, to keep the words on, and to me, that seems very unfair and – but like I say I’m conflicted because it’s a wonderful project, but I hope the people within the district who want the words to remain on their houses will think more about what expanding a historic district would mean to certain people who aren’t as fortunate."</div>
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Thanks, Bill.<br />
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CB: Okay. I am here with Bill Steen as part of the River of Words Oral History
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CB: I’m going to start with some demographic stuff, one of
the things I’m interested in is getting a sense of the diversity of the
participants. If you can provide your age, address, race or ethnicity and
marital status. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: I am 56 years of age. I live at 1322 Arch Street in
Pittsburgh, so I live two blocks from here. Marital status, I’m married to
Susan. What was the other?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Race or ethnicity that you identify as.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Call me Caucasian, I guess. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: We moved to our present address in July of 2008. So over
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CB: Are you a Pittsburgh native or do you come from
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BS: I was born in New York City.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Cool, what part?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Queens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Cool, I’m from Inwood in Upper Manhattan. And so does
your house fall within the historic district?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: IT doesn’t. It falls just outside. It was in the area
that people were trying to incorporate into, which I am happy they didn’t. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And we’ll talk a little more about that later. Lets turn
to the River of Words project. Can you tell me, first of all, what is your
word? And how did you get involved, and all that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Okay. We actually have two words. One is “vortex” and
the other is “alhombra”—<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: How do you spell that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: A-L-HOM-BA.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Okay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: And it’s a Spanish word from Arabic roots meaning
“Pillow.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: How did you choose your words?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well actually we chose “vortex”, Susan and I, at the
meeting where they had the words in the tent over here. But “Alhombra” was
basically, we got to know the artists, they were by one day, doing a neighbor’s
word, and they said “Hey we have this extra word its getting near the end of
the project, we’d like to give it to you.” At first we said “Maybe give it to
someone who doesn’t have a word” but they insisted and so we said “Sure, the
more the better.” Vortex is just like an applique on the window, whereas
Alhombra was three dimensional they had to screw in into the brick word. And
unfortunately somebody came by and pulled off the “a” so it’s been, what is it,
frenchified, now “l’hombra,” unfortunately the “a” is missing now.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So almost “l’hombre” or shoulder. How did you find out
about the project, initially?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well, we’ve, ever since moving into the neighborhood
we’ve been big fans and supporters of City of Asylum and so naturally we get
word of all their stuff, and we liked the idea, because we get all the emails,
so, yeah.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Over the last six months can you tell me if the meaning
of the words has changed for you and what kind of impact they have had on your
lives?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well, we love our words. We specifically picked “Vortex”
due to the wintry weather last year and we are getting a bit of it now. We
liked the idea of a polar vortex and right now we have it decorated with
snowflakes behind it, but, I don’t know. Susan and I both love books, love to
read, love literature, and so the idea of having a word, the whole idea behind
the project was cool and just fun, in today’s society where it seems to me,
though maybe I’m just being an old fogey, it seems that people read less and
less and they are doing more just looking at images and stuff. It just seemed
important to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Have people asked you about your word? Have you had any
memorable interactions around your word?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: We happened to be, there was one woman walking by the
house, we happened to be out and she asked about the word so we told her about
the project, but we haven’t had people like ringing the doorbell—or a lot of
the. I think a lot of it is happenstance, so if you happen to be outside your
house and somebody comes by and asks about it. So there was this one woman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What do you think the broader significance of this
project is?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well, I think, which is a great part of City of Asylum’s
mission, to keep people in touch with reading and books and literature and it
feels like its just a good thing to do. It helps make the community more
interesting. Its fun to go by areas that aren’t part of like this centralized
Mexican War Streets, the historic district, [but also] out on Western Avenue in
front of a restaurant that we go to there is a couple of words so its neat to
run into houses that have these words. Its just, I just think it’s a positive
thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So I want to turn now to the Historic Review Commission
controversy. I know you don’t have a historic district house [but] are you
aware of what’s happening with that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: I am. I got the email from Henry that talked about Glenn
Olcerst, who I know, so I am aware of all that. My wife and I signed a petition
to not have the expansion of the district. I think all districts are historic
and while I—because its city of asylum and river of words and its Guiselda and
Carolina and Hector and Rafael—I hope they’re successful because it’s a
positive thing, but there’s also a sort of irony, and maybe the less generous
side of me says, “if they don’t get the commission or whatever to approve
keeping the words maybe they’ve been hoisted on their own petard” and I don’t
know, again, I think there was a lot of people within the historic district
that were pushing for the expansion of it, which I think makes it difficult. I
feel the historic district makes it difficult for people of certain
socioeconomic levels to remain in place. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Can you say more about that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Yeah, well, I’ve termed the expansion of the historic
district “Redlining by Other Means” and it would be kind of ironic for people
who, yes, the River of Words are a wonderful thing, but it would be ironic that
say somebody within the historic district that doesn’t have the economic
wherewithal at the time to make a much needed renovation to their home that
would fit the very strict standards, if they weren’t able to do that, that a
certain class of people was able to get the rules changed to do this, to keep
the words on, and to me, that seems very unfair and – but like I say I’m
conflicted because it’s a wonderful project, but I hope the people within the
district who want the words to remain on their houses will think more about
what expanding a historic district would mean to certain people who aren’t as
fortunate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: That’s really interesting. I noticed, I went to my first
historic district hearing, where Henry gave a speech, it was really interesting
because the debates were about, basically, appropriateness. There were
arguments made by people who wanted to make [architectural] changes for reasons
of security and cost, but those kind of values were denigrated in favor of the
notion of “history” or “historic appropriateness” so it is interesting to think
about those issues of class. And how it relates to a historic district.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: My daughter is an architect and she doesn’t like the
idea of historic districts. She says, I stole the phrase from her: “All
districts are historic” and there is history to all things and I think it just
puts a great burden on certain people. Some people it doesn’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>matter and its great, it keeps the home
values up, it keeps certain people from moving in, and frankly that’s not what
everybody’s in it for but there are certainly some people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: that’s really interesting. OK. Can you speak a little
about what you think to be the role of public art in the North Side in general?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well, I think its had a large effect on the community. I
just see a number of people, you see the number of people walking around the
area and they are obviously, they have made an effort to come to the area to
see certain things like Randyland or the House Poems and the beautiful artwork
on the houses, so I think its had a really positive effect. My wife and I often
say that we cant imagine this neighborhood, the North Side, without City of
Asylum and the things that City of Asylum brought to it. Specifically, public
art, which we love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What is it that you do, if you don’t mind me asking?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: I am a special agent with the secret service.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Oh wow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: No jokes, please.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: No, no jokes. Fascinating. There was I think one more
little question I wanted to ask I thought of while you were talking. No that’s
it. Is there anything you’d like to share in terms of comments about the
projects or anecdotes that I haven’t given you a chance to talk about?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: No. But other than, I just, I’d like to see them maybe
do a River of Words part two. I think there would definitely be interest. I’m
sure there are people who would love [to see it] expanded, doing a second
[one]. I thought it was a great idea, and the artists, it was so nice meeting
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What was that like? I read a press release about synapses
etc. but I wasn’t here yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BS: Well, we went to dinner with them, Henry and Diane
invited us to a dinner with them at Café du Jour so we got to meet them and see
them at events here and on the street and it was just really really nice, so
yeah, I’d like to see a second, 2.0.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Great. Thank you so much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I met with Bette McDevitt on February 22, 2015. She had some interesting thoughts about future challenges to HRC, notably, the possibility that more and more neighborhoods will want to have solar panels, a clash that might make the HRC "a dinosaur." She also identified the different ways in which the non-english words in the River could be read, for her, that they were "slippery stones" that were hard to identify with. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks, Bette!</div>
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CB: I’m here with Bette McDevitt and she is with me as part
of the River of Words Oral History Project. Thank you for being here. I’d like
to start with some demographic data, I’m trying to get a sense of the diversity
of the participants. So can you please give me your full name, your address,
your age, your marital status, and your race or ethnicity. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: OK. Bette McDevitt, 428 Lockhart Street, Pittsburgh
15212. What was next?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Age?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: 81.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Marital status.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Widow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Sorry to hear that. Race or ethnicity?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Caucasian, I guess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Okay. And how long have you lived in the North Side?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Since 1999, so I’d say that’s close to 15 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And how long have you lived in Pittsburgh?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: I’ve lived in Pittsburgh three different times and this
time I’ve lived here 15 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: OK. Were you born in Pittsburgh? <o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: No, I was born in Newcastle. But I have a very strong
attachment to the North Side. My great grandfather was a constable in the park,
when he came from Germany, and that was a Civil War job, and my parents met in
the park, and I came always to spend my summer vacations here in the North
Side. Its where I belong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Do you know if your house falls within the historic
district or not?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: It does.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Ok. Lets now turn to the River of Words project. Can you
tell me about how you became involved, how you decided to host<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a word?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: yes. I was here when there were Eastern European people
here with the puppets, I’m sure other people you’ve interviewed have told—<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I haven’t actually heard about the puppets. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Well that was something going on in the tent at the
time. And so there were people over on the side who, at a side table, who had
these words, and I also knew that there was a Venezuelan writer here in
residence and I thought it had some connection with him, but I found out later
that it didn’t. but I had found out that these were Venezuelan artists, and I
found out at an event at the summer tent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What is your word?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: My word is “friendship” which I hope to keep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: how did you decide on that word?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: I decided on it because of the meaning in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What does it mean to you? <o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Well, my neighborhood, and the whole North Side has been
for me a very friendly place, and friendship is what ties us all together. I
would not have taken a word that I didn’t- sometimes I see the words that I
guess are Venezuelan, I don’t know, I don’t know the derivation of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So you wanted something more familiar. So six months
later, what has it been like, displaying this word? How have people reacted?
What are some stories that have happened because of it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Actually almost none. It fits in very well, it’s the
same color as some siding on my house so it looks like it was meant to be there
and its on the top of my window and maybe people are not seeing it because I’d
say I’ve only had two or three comments on it, but I like it very much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What have the comments been?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: “Oh nice,” “where did you get that?” “why do you have
it?” I have never talked to anybody about the theme of the River of Words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And has the meaning of the word changed at all for you
since you’ve first installed it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: No.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What do you think the significance of this project is?
The whole River of Words project?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Uh huh. Because I live outside of this area where there
are more of them, there’s only 3 or 4 people over there on my street who have
the words, and I feel a connection to them and I think “Well, of course they
would have a word.” But I like my neighborhood very much, I like everybody, and
I think everybody would have a word if they could. But I don’t feel very
connected with it to anything else in particular.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So now I want to turn to the Historic Review Commission
issue that has been happening—<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Oh!<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What do you think about it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: I haven’t heard very much about it. Although I think
ours is certainly state [historic district] because nobody can change outside
the front of their house, maybe the folks here are in a national—are they
having trouble about that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Yeah, so basically my understanding is that those houses
within the historic district maybe weren’t supposed to put them up at all,
because it is an alteration to the appearance of the building, but what Glenn
Olcerst is trying to do on behalf of some neighbors is to get an exception to
that rule to allow the words to stay indefinitely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that’s my understanding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Well, there are so few of us, I am in Allegheny East,
Deutschtown, and we haven’t heard much about that. But that’s interesting
because were I younger I would be putting solar panels on the front of my house
because it faces south and it would be a perfect candidate and there are
neighborhoods—this is going to come up—because the Heinz foundation is giving
money to neighborhoods so people can install solar panels without that big
outlay of money, and they are going to run into Historic Review. I thought
about that, and I thought about how that makes it a dinosaur then. It makes it
a dinosaur. But I also appreciate the viewpoint, a little bit. But my word fits
in. its on the transom, its blue, it looks like it belongs there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What do you think the HRC should do, do you think they
should grant an exemption?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Oh I would think so, yeah. Are you talking federal
historic review, state or local?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: The Pittsburgh one. I went to the hearing though and one
of the fears voiced by the HRC was that if there is a local exemption made it
might still have statewide or city wide impact, so that’s part of their fear.
But yeah, I am not educated enough on the different patchwork quilt of historic
districts. That’s another thing I am learning about. But I’d like to close with
your thoughts on the role of public art in the neighborhood. So, what do you
think the purpose of public art is for the North Side?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Well, it gives artists a job, and that’s good. It gives
them some money, which is good, because we are not very good about funding our
artists. Along with gardens, it enhances the neighborhood. Are you not going to
ask me about my encounter with these particular artists, is that not going to
be part of it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: No, please, I’d love to hear about that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: Well, I didn’t feel very identified with the project, I
didn’t know exactly what River of Words was, but I wanted to be a part of it if
it was going on in the neighborhood. And I like that word. And so, they kept
saying, they said they would come at some point within this timeframe and they
came at about 9 o’clock on a Sunday evening, and it was still daylight, but I
was in my nightgown and I came downstairs, it’s a townhouse, and all three of
them were there who were responsible for the project and they were so nice and
friendly, and we got a stepladder and they said “Oh its perfect it matches your
house it looks so great!” and they were very enthusiastic so that was a very
pleasant experience, but beyond that I didn’t ever have any—and sometimes I’m
puzzled by the words that don’t make any sense to me that are in another
language. I don’t think that’s a good river. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Why don’t <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
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BM: They are slippery stones. You can’t connect to them. But
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CB: Hm. Yeah. I talked to a gentleman who has a Spanish word
that is the word for pillow, and I guess he liked the sound of it, I’ve heard
other words but people kind of grow on them. So, is there anything else that
you’d like to say about the River of Words or public art?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BM: You know, I put yard signs out, frequently, and no one
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CB: Yeah, its interesting, what gets attention and what doesn’t.
Okay. Anything else you’d like to share that I haven’t given you a chance to
talk about?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Heading2Char"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I had the pleasure of meeting Kathy Deis on February 22nd. She is actually the mother of Terri Wiezoreck, and so she is responsible for that additional interview as well. Her words are "retirement" and "renacimiento" both pointing to a sense of renewal and new stories that occur as one follows life's stages. The words, she noted, were "perfect" in describing her and her husband of 54 years. Importantly, she mentions that some of the friction between the HRC and North Side residents comes from the sense that the HRC imposes regulations rather than "working with" the neighborhood: an antagonistic rather than a dialogic relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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CB: The date is February 22<sup>nd</sup> and I am here with
Kathy Deis as part of the River of Words Oral History Project. So, thank you so
much for being here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: It’s my pleasure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I wanted to start with some demographic information, I
am trying to get a sense of the diversity of participants. Can you tell me your
full name, your address, age, marital status, race, and I’ll remind you [of the
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KD: My name is Kathleen Deis. I live at 1221 Buenavista
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CB: Age?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: I am 72.<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: Married for fifty-four years this year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Congratulations. How do you identify with your race<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: Caucasian.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And how long have you lived on the North Side? <o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: This time thirteen years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And did you live on the North Side the earlier two times
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KD: No, we lived over in Forest Hills, on the East Side of
Pittsburgh, but that was with family, kids and stuff, so we went there for
schools.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Okay. I see. Do you know if your house falls within the
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KD: It does.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Ok. So I would now like to turn to the River of Words
project. I’d just like you to talk about your experience with the project. So,
how did you find out about it? What was it like? How did you choose your word? <o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: So, we are big supporters of Henry, so we get regular
emails, we come to a lot of the readings and events that he holds, so it was
through that that we found out about it. And, then we came that one day to the
tent to pick our words, and it was a very nice experience for us meeting the
folks that were involved, and I think that’s what makes us so defensive of the
HRC giving us grief.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What was the word that you chose?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: We had two. We had “retirement” and the other word is
Spanish, I can’t pronounce it, you probably can’t read my writing, but it means
to “re start” it kind of goes with “retirement.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Oh, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">renacimiento</i>
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KD: So when we decided to come back to Pittsburgh this time
it was goind to be our first retirement house, and then stuff happened, and we
decided to finish it faster and move in even though, for the first ten years,
my husband was working in New Jersey and would commute every week, back and
forth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Wow. That is a lot of commuting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: He loves it though, audiobooks got him through.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I see. Great. So six months later, has your
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KD: Just more protective of them. I’m very pleased to see
how many people left their words up, our daughter lives in the 1700 block of
Buenavista but that’s not historic, and her words are “Be good.” And she has a
six and an eight year old.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Ah [laughter].<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So that will change meaning as they get older as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: Yeah, but it was interesting seeing what different
people chose as their words. Some went very, I don’t want to say emotional, but
something very private to them and somebody else walking down the street
probably saw something else.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Can you tell me about any interactions that might have
happened around your word, if there were any?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: Everybody that knows us thinks its great for us and the
words were, before the house tour in September and we always have a big party
that day, and we have a lot of our friends come in and started looking for them
and agree, that that was us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Where are they installed on your house?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: We have a stone porch, but its on the window right on
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CB: What do you think the significance of this project is?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: It gets people talking. I also take care of two big
flower gardens in the neighborhood, and my title is Green Space Chair and a lot
of people thought I was responsible for the words, so, once the words started
being installed, then everybody wanted one. And they thought I could get them
for them, but by then the people had gone back to Venezuela, run out of words,
that sort of thing. So I think that since this is a series of activities, it
was a good way to start, and I hope it gets more of my neighbors into
protecting it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Gets more of the neighbors into protecting the words?<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: The idea of the words. Having art. Have you talked to
Barb Telerigo yet?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I’m scheduled to talk to her…not yet, nope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: So, their house is on the corner of Eloise and Resaca,
and her husband made this large mural—<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Oh yeah, Glenn. I’ve talked to Glenn, I haven’t—<o:p></o:p></div>
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KD: So, it kind of started around that. You know it was his
gift to the neighborhood. He was very careful how he did it, very respectful,
and then HRC didn’t like the lights, didn’t like the cam- the camera was too
big. In this neighborhood where everybody is putting up cameras, “his camera
was too big” he was told. It was crazy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: That’s a good example. Let’s turn to the HRC controversy.
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KD: Well, we’ve been down at the HRC often because our house
was in the historic area when it was being built so we knew them from that. We knew,
when Glenn was- when people have a problem with the HRC and they are going to
have a hearing they put out an email and as many of us show up as possible, and
its on third Wednesday afternoon of the month, so not a lot of people can go. But
there is several hard-core work from home kind of people that show up. So we do
stick together on that. I think that, I’m not sure about this part, I think
that the positions on the board are all voluntary but they have Sarah that’s the
paid employee and she has too much…she doesn’t try to work with us, she tells
us what to do. What you can and cannot do. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So what do you think should be done with River Words
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KD: Well, I think the one thing that came out of the meeting
before was, the simple answer is for us all to go and pay $100 and have a
hearing of our own, and that’s way too much money. Glenn’s organizing a group
effort. He’s a lawyer so he’s going to represent us in a class action suit and
anybody who wants to can sign up with him and he will represent us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that was the committee itself said, that
needs to be looked at. They also said “there’s no history to anything like this”
so they have to come up with a whole idea of how to handle art, what is art? That’s
the other discussion they tried to get into, and it kind of got nasty because
someone brought up graffiti and when is it good, when is it not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I want to close with your thoughts on public art in
general. What do you think the purpose of public art is in the North Side and
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KD: I love to see the kids’ reactions to things. I think that’s
important. I think a lot of times our kids have been led to believe that art is
not for kids, its for adults, its for people that have money, but it doesn’t have
to be that. A lot of times people don’t realize some of the installations that
go in downtown and that all you have to do is walk around and its right there. I’d
love to see more of that kind of thing. I do know some of the people that are
not for allowing public art in the Mexican War Streets, they wouldn’t appreciate
art that is not museum quality. They don’t see the value. And yet they don’t recognize
on that several of the telephone poles we have flags that say “Mexican War
Street,” that’s a kind of art. But they don’t recognize them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Is there anything else you’d like to say that I haven’t
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KD: No, this was very good. I wish you a lot of luck with
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-36427062344333670682015-05-02T14:18:00.001-11:002015-05-02T14:18:13.316-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Robin Alexander, "Solidaridad," and the Words' Multiple UsesOn February 22nd I had the opportunity to speak with Robin Alexander, a former worker in the United Electrical workers union, who herself has helped organize an international mural project. her word is "Solidaridad," "Solidarity." River of Words was a complicated project, one that, for Robin, has been framed in the media as a critique of the Venezuelan government, a critique that she would have preferred not to have been a part of. However, she has reframed her word such that it continues to have an oppositional charge, to have meaning for her. She noted: "<i>Solidaridad </i>[was] ....a perfect fit given my work, and so that—you know, I was really happy initially, and then I was really upset, and then I was trying to decide how to think about it, how do I think about this because I <i>do </i>believe that art should be political, but I felt somewhat used because I would not have chosen to participate—so I had to decide what to do. And so what I did is I write a <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2014/08/01/Venezuela-is-a-healthy-democracy-with-little-inequality/stories/201408010071">letter to the editor</a>, I raised it with people, and it just happened that right at that period was when Israel attacked Gaza and so there was actually a demonstration in Oakland, I think it was the evening for the reception for the project, and I had been planning to come [to the reception] and express my concerns and instead I decided my time and energy were probably better spent participating in the demonstration, so I went to that, and the organizers were mostly young and they had created some wonderful signs. They were, sort of, heavy, not cardboard...and they had red hand-prints and the name and age of all of the children who had been killed in the bombing, so I got one of those signs, and at the end of the demonstration they said “If you are going to attend another demonstration or have another use for the sign you can keep it, otherwise please turn it back in” and I thought “Oh, well maybe I do have a use for the sign.” So I kept it and I took it home and I attached it under my <i>Solidaridad</i> word."<br />
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Thanks, Robin!<br />
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Transcript follows:<br />
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CB: So I’m here with Robin Alexander, the date is February
22, 2015, as part of the River of Words Oral History project, so, thanks for
being with me, Robin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Sure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I wanted to start by asking some basic demographic
information, because one of the things I want to learn is about the diversity
of folks involved in the project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Is this video or audio?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Audio. So if we could start with your full name,
address, age, marital status, race you identify with, and if you need reminding
about the various categories, I’d be happy to remind you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Okay. My name is Robin Alexander, I live at 1926
Perrysville Avenue, which is sort of up the hill from here. I am sixty-one. I
am single. And I am European-American.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Okay. And how long have you lived in the North Side?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: About twenty-five years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: And you mentioned earlier that you’ve lived in
Pittsburgh for 30 years?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Yes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Do you know if your house falls within the historic
district?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: It does not, I live up the hill in a different
neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So I wanted to turn to the River of Words project now
and talk a bit about that. Can you tell me about how you became involved in the
project, and the experience that you had?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Yeah, I’ve attended a lot of the City of Asylum events,
so at one of them someone asked if I would do this and I said ‘sure’ and then
afterwards it occurred to me that this project actually might be used as a
platform to criticize the Venezuelan government and I wasn’t interested in participating
if that had been the case, so I’d asked both the City of Asylum and the arts
funders if it would be used that way, and they said “Oh, no no no! that wasn’t
in the proposal, that’s not the intent at all” so I said “Okay,” and then of
course that it was!<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: In what way?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: There were articles both in the City Paper and in the
Post Gazette and I was pretty upset, actually, so I wound up actually writing
and getting a letter to the editor published in the Post Gazette and I spoke to
people afterwards.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So I’m not super familiar with the content of all of the
project I’ve been more talking to people word by word about what they picked
and what it meant to them. So do you mind telling me what parts of the project
were, to you, a critique of the Venezuelan government?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Oh, that it was, there were, you know its been a long
time now so I can’t tell you exactly but in one case there was an interview
with one of the writers and in the other I think it was based on discussions
that the person who wrote the article sort of used those discussions to say
that Venezuela is a dictatorship and some other things. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So kind of how the project was framed in the media?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Yes. Okay, okay that’s helpful. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So what word did you end up choosing?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Solidaridad.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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CB: That makes sense, given your work with the union
[international electrical workers].<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Well, it was a perfect fit given my work, and so
that—you know, I was really happy initially, and then I was really upset, and
then I was trying to decide how to think about it, how do I think about this
because I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do </i>believe that art should
be political, but I felt somewhat used because I would not have chosen to
participate—so I had to decide what to do. And so what I did is I write a
letter to the editor, I raised it with people, and it just happened that right
at that period was when Israel attacked Gaza and so there was actually a
demonstration in Oakland, I think it was the evening for the reception for the
project, and I had been planning to come [to the reception] and express my
concerns and instead I decided my time and energy were probably better spent
participating in the demonstration, so I went to that, and the organizers were
mostly young and they had created some wonderful signs. They were, sort of,
heavy, not cardboard, what do you call that stuff?<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Particle board?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: No, they were heavy paper, I guess, and they had red
hand-prints and the name and age of all of the children who had been killed in
the bombing, so I got one of those signs, and at the end of the demonstration
they said “If you are going to attend another demonstration or have another use
for the sign you can keep it, otherwise please turn it back in” and I thought
“Oh, well maybe I do have a use for the sign.” So I kept it and I took it home
and I attached it under my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Solidaridad</i>
word.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: What kinds of reactions or interactions did that
inspire?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Actually, the only one came from my neighbors who said
“Cool.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: That’s interesting. Also coming off of, on Pitt’s campus
there is the Conflict Kitchen—<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: This was before that, actually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Yeah, but its interesting when controversy happens, and
when it doesn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Yes, yes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Okay, and so six months later, can you tell me about the impact that
displaying this word has had in your life? Has it changed in meaning for you?
Has it caused any other interactions or anecdotes that you feel comfortable
sharing?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: No, I mean, I’ve gotten a couple of inquiries about,
“I’ve seen words sort of around in this neighborhood, why are they there?” but
beyond that no one’s really commented. I live across the street from Triangle
Tech so there are a lot of students who walk up and down my hill even though
it’s a really quiet street and not many people live on the street, so I imagine
a lot of people have actually seen it, but I haven’t had conversations with
them about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: OK Cool. So I’m going to turn to the Historic Review
Commission situation, so, are you aware of what is going on with the HRC, and
if so, do you have any thoughts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about
what should be done with the words?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Well, I know that there was an issue about whether the
people within the Mexican War Streets would be able to leave their words on
their homes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Do you have any opinions on whether they should. Because
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words to stay up indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Oh, I hadn’t realized that but I certainly would support
that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Finally I want to ask about your thoughts more generally
about public art, in the North Side and in Pittsburgh, if you could speculate
on who it serves, and the general social function that it has?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: I think that public art is tremendously important. And
at least here in Pittsburgh my impression is that the sprout fund had been
raelly significant in helping to fund public art. There are murals throughout
the city. I’ve traveled pretty extensively and so you see public art in other
places much more than you generally do in this country. Who does it serve?
Well, to some extent I think that depends on how its funded and who does the
art, and we were talking a little bit before this interview about how in my
work I had helped facilitate the creation of several murals and it was a really
interesting experience because it was as a labor union, it was very very
difficult to get funding for that kind of art even though the artists were
fabulous and the products were really wonderful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: Was it difficult to get funding because people didn’t
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RA: Yes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: So just a general anxiety about labor unions, U.S.
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RA: Yes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: That makes sense. So I’d like to circle back to your
earlier discussion about how you felt a little bit frustrated by the framing of
this project. Do you have any thoughts about what, maybe, should be involved in
future instantiations of this project or in general in terms of making the
process more transparent and more participatory?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: I’m not sure exactly what you are asking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: I guess I am asking if you think there is a better way
to have gone about the process of developing this project such that the media
framing that you talked about would have been less possible. The framing you
suggest that, even though this project could be read in a number of ways, the
fact that it was prevalently pitched as a critique of the Venezuelan
government. Do you think there was a better way to have gone about it to create
a different end result?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: I’m not sure because I guess I think that artists should
have the right to express themselves and their views. I guess my problem is
that today in the United States I don’t think the problem is with what’s
happening in Venezuela, its with how its being presented here in the U.S. and
how our government is supporting the right-wing forces in Venezuela. And so, I
think the issue is, is that the sort of project that we would want to have
here? And, I don’t know. In a way, it wound up being sort of disguised as an
innocent community project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CB: That’s fascinating. Is there anything else you would
like to say that I haven’t given you an opportunity to talk about?<o:p></o:p></div>
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RA: Well, in spite of all of this, I really do like the City
of Asylum, and I think they have done some really fabulous programming and I’m
going to continue to go to their events, but this has certainly made me think,
perhaps more deeply,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about the role of
public art, and who makes decisions, and I guess going back to your question, I
don’t know how this project came about, or who decided to do it, or how it was
to be done, but I guess, if I had been asked beforehand I certainly would’ve
had a viewpoint to have expressed that perhaps wasn’t expressed, and I would’ve
appreciated the opportunity to have contributed that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-53886779579856616552015-05-02T10:39:00.000-11:002015-05-02T10:39:09.941-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Jennifer Tharp, "Zombies," and art as community connector<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p>I met with Jennifer on February 22, 2015. She is a visual artist who lives in the Mexican War Streets and her word is "Zombies." In addition to the interactive element of the installation (she and her husband will playfully scare passersby who are checking out the word, growling and snarling like zombies) it also exemplifies the educational possibility of public art. She notes:</o:p></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> “It helps people grow. And I think there are kids around here who
might never get a chance to go to the museums, or they only know art through
popular culture or music and when they see pieces like this on somebody’s home
I think they take ownership of it in a really great way. It becomes a part of
their identity in a way that maybe afterschool arts programs or parental
efforts might not be able to reach fully. …Kids, kids in the summer. When they
are just knocking around the neighborhood I’ll notice that kids who might be
kind of bored and who might be normally causing trouble haven’t thrown rocks or
tried to take down any of the signs. They start asking neighbors questions.
They start getting really excited about it and say, “Maybe I can put one on my
house!” They come up with ideas and it brings out the best in kids, and then
they get to talk to their family and friends about it. And I love seeing that
light burn in kids I don’t even know. Don’t cry, don’t cry. It makes me feel
really excited because it seems like a little thing, it’s a word on a wall, but
its magical. Its really fun.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: SO the date is February 22, 2015 and I am here with Jennifer
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: I'd like to start with demographic stuff, I am trying to get
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: What do you want to know first?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: How about your full name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: My name is Jennifer Tharp, and I live at 420 North Taylor
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: How old are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I am 43 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: You do not look 43.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Marital status?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I have been with my beloved for almost fourteen years now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Congratulations. What ethnicity do you identify with?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I'd say Irish-German.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Irish-German-America. You are close to Deutscheland[town],
perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Yeah [laughs].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: How long have you lived in the North Side?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: We have lived here, lets see, we moved here in October of
2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: And how long have you lived in Pittsburgh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Since then. We moved from Seattle, where we met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Ok, so cloudy to another cloudy place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Yes, it was a nice transition, but I'm originally from
Honolulu so this is very exotic for me, and people might think it is funny that
I say it is exotic, but it surely is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: That's gotta be way different. How often do you get back
there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I haven't been back for 10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Its probably really expensive [to travel there].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: My whole family still lives there, I am overdue for another
visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Interesting. An artist friend in Chicago just went back to
Hawai'i so he posted all these gorgeous pictures, you know, hanging out there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: My brother does that regularly, he is a photographer, so I
just think "Damn you!" But also "Post more, I'd love to see
more."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Absolutely. Do you know within your house falls within the
historic district?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Yes it does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: And which historic district? I guess I have to specify that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT; The Mexican War Streets Historical District. And I believe
its the original historical district, because our street, Taylor, was named
after General Taylor from the Mexican War.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Excellent. So I'm going to turn now to the River of Words
project. Can you tell me how you became involved; what that experience was
like; etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Well, David and I have been coming to City of Asylum events
since we moved here and whenever we hear they are doing something we check it
out. This was another series of events that was happening I think I believe
during the summer. since we are both artists we love to help participate in
other artists' projects if we can so we've been involved in several since we've
been here, and we just thought this was fun so we walked down to the tent and
saw what was happening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: What word did you pick?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: We were kind of one of the first people there so we got a
great look at what was available and a lot of lovely words, it was kind of hard
to choose, but when we saw "Zombies," we knew, we laughed and we
thought "Yes, that is our word." [Laughs] "Library" and
"Love" were very high on the list but zombies won out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Why "Zombies"?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Well, we've been really big fans of the walking dead
recently and the fact that our city is often connected with zombie movies, we
just thought, Night of the Living Dead and things like that and we just though
"How perfect is this?" And its a little cheeky, and its a touch of
halloween which we love, and so we though "All the things. This is
perfect."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: And, can you tell me now, six months later, what has the
impact of displaying this word had on your life? And what kind of interactions,
perhaps, has it inspired?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Its been wonderful. It makes us laugh everytime we see it.
Its prominently displayed on our blue fence on Sampsonia, because the front of
our house is on Taylor and the back of our house is on Sampsonia which
connects, just down from City of Asylum, so its been really fun to see people
walk by and they are coming here or going anywhere, and oh, when it first came
up they were saying "Oh, look at that one! There's another one" and
we would hear them when we were in the Garden, and people thought it was funny,
and we would often scare people when they came by to look at the word, and they
love it. We would crouch down behind our fence, and when we knew people were
gathering around to look at the word or take photos, which they often do,
people love to take photos of that one, we would reach over the fence with
curled, gnarled hands and growl or snarl at them, and they scream, and they
laugh, and it just never gets old. Its really fun. People come back for more,
and they want us to take photos of them pretending to be scared with David
having his hands over the fence, so its not just a lovely installation, its
become a really interactive piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Have you met any new neighbors because of it, or had
conversations that maybe you wouldn't have had otherwise?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Yeah, I think everybody who has a word on their home or next
door to somebody who has one, its a source of pride now. People are very
excited about it. We love to say "What's this word?" or "I met
<this word="">" instead people used to say "Oh, I met 420
Taylor," or "I'm here on Resaca" or what not. People now
identify their homes with the word they have, so, I enjoy that.<o:p></o:p></this></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Thats really interesting. So I"m going to shift a
little bit now to the Historic Review Commission controversy, so, are you aware
of that, and if so, do you have thoughts on what should be done and kind of
whats happening?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I am aware of it. David and I are very sensitive to the preservation
or at least the upkeep of our historic homes, at least the facade because it
gives our neighborhood a continuity. And it was important that these were not
destroyed in the 70s -- when the whole horrible sweep of the 60s and 70s was
going on through the city. So we really want to keep our home the way it is.
But we think that this sort of art installation only enhances what we have here
in our neighborhood. I think the justapositon between a new, basically no
impact art installation on these beautiful historic homes is just fantastic,
its the best of both worlds, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: So, what do you think should be done about it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Well I understand that some of the neighbors have gone to
the city, and asked as a group if we can be permitted to keep the pieces on our
homes and I think it’s a good sign that everybody is so unanimous on it,
especially when you get a bunch of people with a lot of opinions, but I think
we are really galvanized around this, and the fact that the City of Asylum has
been so wonderful, to neighbors but also to the art world in what they produce,
we really want to make sure that those things are protected and supported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Yeah. More generally, what do you think the purpose of
public art is, in the North Side but maybe in Pittsburgh more broadly?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I think its for beauty. Its for dialogue between people. It
starts conversations. I think especially maybe not in our neighborhood
immediately but in the North Side in general it is really important that those
of us who are artists and/or support the arts, I think it’s a responsibility of
ours to share outside ideas with the rest of the neighborhood and the rest of
the city and the world. It helps people grow. And I think there are kids around
here who might never get a chance to go to the museums, or they only know art
through popular culture or music and when they see pieces like this on
somebody’s home I think they take ownership of it in a really great way. It
becomes a part of their identity in a way that maybe afterschool arts programs
or parental efforts might not be able to reach fully. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Can you give a couple of examples that you’ve noticed of
that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Kids, kids in the summer. When they are just knocking around
the neighborhood I’ll notice that kids who might be kind of bored and who might
be normally causing trouble haven’t thrown rocks or tried to take down any of
the signs. They start asking neighbors questions. They start getting really
excited about it and say, “Maybe I can put one on my house!” They come up with
ideas and it brings out the best in kids, and then they get to talk to their
family and friends about it. And I love seeing that light burn in kids I don’t
even know. Don’t cry, don’t cry. It makes me feel really excited because it
seems like a little thing, it’s a word on a wall, but its magical. Its really
fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Can you tell me about the kind of art you do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: I am learning to be a web developer now. I’m a visual
artist, photography, illustrator, and I’m transitioning, well, not really
transitioning, just broadening my skill set, and David [Jenn’s husband] is a
visual designer, working on a t-shirt line right now, its very exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Awesome. Have you displayed public photos in the
neighborhood?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: Only in my home. But I’ve been nudged quite enthusiastically
to put my work out there, its just I get a little nervous about it, but we have
such a great creative environment here, a lot of professional artists here, a
lot of patrons of the arts, a lot of just curious people. So if anybody finds
you are creative and you are not showing it they feel a little gipped, like
“Scuse me! Where’s your stuff? You should do something!” So, I really enjoy
that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">CB: Are there any other comments or anecdotes that you’d like to
share that I haven’t given you a chance to speak to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">JT: No, other than, just, this is a wonderful project [River of
Words] and the artists were truly just lovely. They were really accommodating,
very curious about why we chose our word, what we liked about the River of
Words project, they were just very open to suggestions and they were very
respectful of our property not that we were—they just made it an effortless
installation. And it was nice to see them around, putting their work up
everywhere. So we really enjoyed that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On February 22nd I interviewed Jeff Frazier and Rebecca White, a couple who lives in Deutschtown. Their words are "ditirambos" ("dithyrambics") and "fly." Rebecca observed of the project: "Its so cool. And you meet people and then you kind of-- like I met this woman Sharon at the opening event and I couldn't remember her name-- she said her word was "Baseball" so I saw her out in public one time and I just looked at her and I said "Baseball! I don't remember your name, I'm sorry, but I know you are the baseball house." So I think it brings community together. It is interesting when you meet someone that has the word and what it means to them, its a conversation starter, I think it would be a shame to lose." In this conversation they also spoke about their attraction to the neighborhood that is still in the process of development, a historical moment where they feel that residents can and are "working towards a common goal," with the City of Asylum as a prominent feature of that struggle.</div>
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Thanks, Jeff and Rebecca! Transcript follows:</div>
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CB: Alright so I am here with Jeff Frazier and Rebecca White as part of the River of Words Oral History Project and thanks for being with me and bearing with my lack of orientation.</div>
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JF: Sure.</div>
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CB: So I want to begin with some demographic data, I want to get a sense of the diversity of folks who have negaged with the River of Words project. So can we start with your address, age, marital status, and what race or identity you identify with.</div>
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JF: I think we are white.</div>
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RW: Caucasian. We live on 1330 James Street, and that's over on the hospital side, so we are not in the Historic District, we are married, and, what was the other question?</div>
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JF: I'm 56 she's 45. I'm 59 she's 45. [Laughter]</div>
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RW: [This is] going well.</div>
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JF: That's the year I was born, '56.</div>
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CB: Alright. Excellent. And how long have you lived on the North Side?</div>
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JF: Four years last month.</div>
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CB: And how long have you lived in Pittsburgh?</div>
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JF: Uh...</div>
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RW: Twenty-ish.</div>
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JF: 25, 30 years. Yeah.</div>
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CB: What historic district are you in because I know there are different ones.</div>
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JF: We are in Deutschtown, which is also called East Allegheny.</div>
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RW: But we are North of North Avenue so we are not actually a historic district.</div>
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JF: We're technically not in the historic district. Actually our house is brand new, we built it four years ago, but it looks like an old Victorian.</div>
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CB: So you aren't in a historic district.</div>
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JF: Technically we are not.</div>
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CB: It is really interesting, the quilt pattern of overlapping historic districts.</div>
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RW: Right.</div>
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JF: The neighborhood of Deutschtown is a historic district, but we are a block above the boundary for where that technically ends. All of the War Streets, it ends at, I can't remember.</div>
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CB: OK. Great. So now I want to turn to the River of Words Project. Can you all tell me about how you found out about it, what your experience of being involved was like.</div>
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RW: Well I--</div>
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JF: She sent me an email.</div>
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RW: Well I actually, I'm on the mailing list for City of Asylum so I know whats going on and I read about it and it sounded really cool so we signed up, sent an email, and just asked if we could be part of the project, and then we didn't hear anything for a while and I wrote back and they did say that they had words left.</div>
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JF: We were towards the end, we didn't have that many choices.</div>
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RW: We only had the choice of five or ten words at the time or something, so yeah, so...</div>
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JF: And we originally chose "ditirambos" which we looked up on the internet sort of meant "poetry" in Spanish, and they showed up and put the word on the glass on our front door and then, I don't know if you've met Israel or any of the people</div>
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CB: I met him this morning.</div>
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JF: I told him about you he had no idea, I ran into him last week. Anyhow, the five of them came over, we were eating dinner, it was like a communication thing because of the language, they were supposed to call us and they just showed up and they kind of stormed into our house and all five of them were talking at like 95-miles-a-minute and just taking pictures of my house and flashes were going off everywhere and they put the word on, took photos of us in front of the door, and then they left. I don't know if it was the next day or later that night they sent us an email and asked, they said, "We really love your house would you like another word?" so we said "OK. Call us." That was a Saturday night, "Call us Sunday, we'll make sure we're home and we'll meet you there and choose a word." So we are over at Whole Foods or something and we get an email and its like "We're in front of your house" and then they sent us a picture holding up the word that they chose, and we are like "That's fine." And they put that in the mortar.</div>
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CB: What word?</div>
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RW: Actually, they told us some of the words previously they gave us the three words and "Fly" was one of the words which we ended up getting, but I was like, "I don't want 'Fly"" I thought of the insect at first, and I was just like, "That's the last word I want." So they sent us a text message holding up the word "Fly" and its in this beautiful script, and my son was actually leaving for his graduate program in Arizona, like, several days later so I was like "that's the perfect word." So I ended up loving it.</div>
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JF: Her only child is flying off.</div>
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RW: Yeah. So it made a little more sense to me. I didn't think so much of the bug.</div>
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CB: You can read it on many different levels.</div>
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RW: Yeah exactly, you can read into the words in so many different ways, with different meanings.</div>
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JF: Yeah, and we had no idea what "ditirambos" meant when we chose it, we just thought "Ah, that's a cool sounding word." </div>
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CB: Great. So now, six months later, has your relationship to your words changed at all?</div>
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JF: I don't know. We chose to keep them on as long as they will stand up, and they don't seem to be showing any wear and tear. We plan on keeping them there.</div>
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CB: Has the meaning changed at all?</div>
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RW: I don't think so, no. I think its nice when people come over and they don't know what its all about and to hear reactions. </div>
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JF: We enjoy the weird reactions. This guy who works at the hospital, he parks up the street, and he walks by our house all the time and we chat with him, and he came up to us and said "Did you guys start a home business?" and we were like "No, why?" and he was like "Well you have that sign on your house." [Laughter]</div>
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RW: ANd the UPS person too. He said, "What is this all about? I drive around and deliver in different areas," so, yeah.</div>
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JF: I'm sure you are aware it has also become a point of contention here on the War Streets there are lawsuits and...some of the word that we walked by, we are walking through the neighborhood way after the deadline to remove them from the homes and we are like "I guess that means F-you!" </div>
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CB: Huh. Maybe. So not knowing the translation meaning you can project whatever [meaning].</div>
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JF: I think that's the message they are sending.</div>
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CB: Yeah, so I was going to turn to that next. Can you tell me what you know about the HRC controversy and then if you have any opinions on it?</div>
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JF: I think its a very good thing that people are interested in historic preservation but I think they go too far. I wouldn't want to see people replace windows on these historic homes over here with white vinyl windows, you know, put shingles over the brick or something, but I think they [the HRC] go too far sometimes.</div>
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RW: Yeah, I think, I knew that this was only a limited time project and I think I remember discussing, saying "That's a shame." Because its so cool. And you meet people and then you kind of-- like I met this woman Sharon at the opening event and I couldn't remember her name-- she said her word was "Baseball" so I saw her out in public one time and I just looked at her and I said "Baseball! I don't remember your name, I'm sorry, but I know you are the baseball house." So I think it brings community together. It is interesting when you meet someone that has the word and what it means to them, its a conversation starter, I think it would be a shame to lose.</div>
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JF: Yeah, and we went to the opening event that they had where they sort of had some readings and we met all these people and they had a slide show of all the home and the photos they took of us standing in front of our house. </div>
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RW: So I hope that the community gets to win this. I think it is lovely, I don't think it is offensive at all.</div>
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JF: And the whole organization, City of Asylum, is a unique thing in the city and it is a treasure for this neighborhood.</div>
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CB: That leads really nicely into my last question which is, can you all tell me what you think about public art's broader role for the North Side, and maybe for the city of Pittsburgh?</div>
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RW: Well, I would definitely like to see more public art and I think in this neighborhood it has been emerging for decades but I think we are finally maybe at a tipping point. I think that it [public art] can play a great role in it [the neighborhood], especially in the Children's Museum when they put the cloud forest there and when something comes up its exciting. Even on Route 28 the murals that they did, coming into Deutschtown, I think its a great opportunity to showcase your neighborhood and just capture some of the cool art that's available.</div>
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JF: You know, we were in Barcelona a couple years ago, and that's probably the most prominent public art city I have ever been in in my life. And that really, for me, aesthetically, defines Barcelona. Its everything from very old public art to very contemporary public art, juxtaposed, side-by-side that, I mean, you could hardly walk a block in Barcelona and not see a major outdoor installation.</div>
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RW: And the North Side is such a walkable area of Pittsburgh. We don't have the hills, you know, and the struggles. Its just so easy to go and if we are going home, we can just walk on the River and say "Oh, lets just walk by the Children's Museum to see the clouds in the summer" or whatever, you know? Like, lets just go check this out.</div>
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JF: And we walk the streets over here all the time.</div>
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CB: That's great. Rebecca, you said the neighborhood has been emerging for a long time. Can you say more about what that means?</div>
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RW: Yeah, sure. I know that at one point in the neighborhood everyone who was wealthy enough moved north, and that's from what I understand, Route 65 and Route 279 cut through neighborhoods and kind of destroyed pieces of the neighborhoods because it just became the highways and everyone started to move out and then urban sprawl and what not...and I think a lot of these neighborhoods were actually slated to be knocked down and destroyed and the public got together and they saved them.</div>
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JF: That really began after the city annexed them. I mean, this used to be Allegheny City, it used to be a separate--</div>
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RW: Yeah, I mean, but in more recent years I think that a lot of people gravitated to the war streets, and not so much in the Manchester side, or the Deutschtown area. People took these homes and restored them. Out neighborhood even in the last four years that we havel ived there, houses are being restored, you see a lot of action on Western Avenue on the Allegheny West side there is all these restaurants that have popped up and you see this momentum and the Garden Theater district-- that Garden Theater. Its been a long time in the making, it still hasn't really come about but there is hope with the City of Asylum, and hopefully the theater itself will end up getting the restaurant and that sort of keeps joining everybody more together so its really cool just to see how much is coming along.</div>
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JF: That's why we chose this neighborhood to build our house, to live. I mean, we were trying to buy a house here at first and we ended up building, but we wanted to be part of that rejuvenating, emerging, we wanted to watch it build and watch it grow. We weren't interested in going to, we never considered going to Shadyside or Squirrel Hill, we wanted to be part of that. And I think that because everybody is working towards this common goal there is a lot of cameraderie. I mean, we have more friends in this neighborhood than probably everywhere I've lived put together in my entire life, in a very short time.</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-59732942196970253122015-04-30T08:46:00.002-11:002015-04-30T08:46:52.374-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Gwendolyn Moorer, "Baseball," "Amore," and Public Art's Relationship to Quality of LifeI had the opportunity to speak with Gwen Moorer on February 22nd. Gwen, who is on the City of Asylum board, as well as the Y board on the North Side, had some powerful insights about the relationship between public art and cultivating quality of life, that sense that a neighborhood is fulfilling. Of her words she said: "As a result of having "baseball" on my house, now, when people ask me where I live I tell them my neighborhood, and with people in the neighborhood I say "I'm the baseball house." But in addition to that, of course you know, as a result of our, I guess, the interaction and the sociology within the neighborhood, a lot of people sit on their stoops. I don't sit on my stoop a lot but I have a small garden in front of my house where there was a tree, but I made it a nice little flower garden and people walk by a lot, and when they walk by that are like "Oh! I like the 'baseball' why did you pick 'baseball'" People may just walk by and say "Hello, how are you?" now they strike up conversations. And its all different kinds of people. Its just like, I can't even begin to tell you the diversity of people who have spoken about it."<br />
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CB: OK so the dates is February 22nd and I am here with Gwen Moorer as part of the River of Words Oral History Project. Thanks so much for being here with me today.</div>
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GM: My name is Gwendolyn Moorer I live at 1215 Arch Street Pittsburgh PA 15212. I am 62 years old. I am divorced, and I am African-American.</div>
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GM: I bought my house in 1978.</div>
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GM: Since 1971.</div>
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CB: OK. Great. Does your house fall within the Mexican War Street Historic District?</div>
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GM: No.</div>
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CB: OK. I want to turn now to the River of Words project. Can you tell me about how you became involved with it and what your experience was like?</div>
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GM: I am on the board of City of Asylum and I try to participate in as many of the community activities as possible. When I heard about the River of Words project I was really enthusiastic about participating. I also, in a previous position, I work for the City of Pittsburgh, I worked with the manager of art for city art, who works for the city. I really like the idea of public art, and I also like the dimension it adds to the quality of life. I think it is really beautification of the neighborhood: I like trees, I like gardens, and I think art just kind of rounds out that whole-- it adds to the beauty, it adds to the conversation. I am one of the community gardeners and have been a community gardener since about '82, and I notice how the conversation, how different folks come through the garden and have conversations: rich or poor, black or white, gay or straight, female or male, it really fosters communication amongst the neighbors and I assume that that same thing would occur with the River of Words project. And it did.</div>
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CB: Ok. Can you tell me about some of those conversations that you saw started from the River of Words.</div>
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GM: Well, a lot of people asked questions. I have two houses. My house that I live in has the word "Baseball" and my house is pumpkin brick trimmed in royal blue, and the baseball word matches my royal blue perfectly, so I thought that was kind of serendipitous. And I have another house that has the word "Amore" on it, which is love. And baseball is my favorite sport, which is why I picked the word baseball, and "Amore" I like because love, to me, is all there is really in the world. Its the beginning, its the end, its everything. As a result of having "baseball" on my house, now, when people ask me where I live I tell them my neighborhood, and with people in the neighborhood I say "I'm the baseball house." But in addition to that, of course you know, as a result of our, I guess, the interaction and the sociology within the neighborhood, a lot of people sit on their stoops. I don't sit on my stoop a lot but I have a small garden in front of my house where there was a tree, but I made it a nice little flower garden and people walk by a lot, and when they walk by that are like "Oh! I like the 'baseball' why did you pick 'baseball'" People may just walk by and say "Hello, how are you?" now they strike up conversations. And its all different kinds of people. Its just like, I can't even begin to tell you the diversity of people who have spoken about it. I've elected to keep my word because I really like it, I think it adds just a little bit of pizzaz to my house, and I want to keep it on my other house, the "Amore," because I think it adds to the ambience of the house, and it adds ambiance to the neighborhood. On Arch Street there are, oh my gosh, probably twenty people who have words, so we are very supportive of the project and I don't think any of us have had any negative feedback about it. I'm one of those who really don't care a whole lot about the historic, what do you call it, the restrictions on the historic construction and what-have-you. I like building my house the way I want to build my house. I like having the colors I want to have, and what-have-you, so I am not really one of those purists, so to speak, and I'm not really for extending the historic district over to my street, just for that reason, because I want the flexibility to do what I want to do with my houses. I have nothing but positive to say about it [River of Words], I really enjoyed the whole project and I am happy with it.</div>
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CB: Have the meanings of the words changed for you at all over the last six or so months since they have been installed on your houses?</div>
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GM: Like I said, Baseball is my favorite sport and I love the word "love" so I picked those words specificially because they meant something to me. I don't think I could like baseball any more than I like it. I am not a real religious person, I believe that love is what makes the world go 'round. I believe is the beginning and the end. It represents my attitude because I don't believe in religious indoctrination or following any particular-- I believe in God, so love is what everything means to me. I'm a very positive thinker. I try to respond with a positive attitude in most things and try to be open-minded, so no, the words have not changed in my mind because I have picked those words because they represented what I thought. And I was one of the first ones who went, so when I went, I think the first day, there were like maybe 50 words up, so as soon as I saw "Baseball" I knew I wanted "Baseball" and as soon as I saw "Amore"-- love had already been taken, I think-- so when I saw "Amore" I said "That's love," so, I picked those two words.</div>
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CB: Right. So I am going to turn now to the Historic Review Commission controversy, so, to what extent are you aware of it, and can you say a little bit more about your opinion and what should be done? I know you've already kind of gestured to it.</div>
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GM: ...I can't say. I have two empty lots on my street, and when I want to build my house I want to build my house the way I want it, because I think I want to build a retirement property there.</div>
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GM: And I don't anybody telling me how I can build. And I really think the diversity of the housing stock makes it more interesting, as opposed to having everything the same, certain colors, what have you. Obviously you know what side I'm on. And I don't see how the words take away from historic [value], I mean, come on now. It's just a word. So, yeah. Whatever. God bless them.</div>
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CB: Is there anything more that you'd like to say about the role of public art in the North Side, and in Pittsburgh in general. </div>
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GM: I just think its wonderful. One of the things I'm trying to do now-- I think I told you-- I am one of the members of the community garden that goes from Arch Street to Sherman and one of the things we wanted to do is release an RFP (Request for Proposals) and have a competition for art display in our garden. I don't know how successful we'll be with that, but I think it is very important for the quality of life and for-- just the character of the neighborhood to have public art. I don't think-- I think that it should be different types of things, you know, I mean, it could be a craft type of art, it could be lighting, it could be stone, it could be wood, sculpture, you know, whatever. I think the more diverse it is, the more types of mediums we use for art the better it is. A lot of people don't like Randyland. If Randyland were in a historic district it wouldn't be able to look like it does. But Randyland has put this neighborhood on the map. People know about the Mexican War Streets but they know about Randyland more than they know about the Mexican War Streets. So, I'm very supportive of Randy with his Randyland development. I think its weird, but hey, I like it. I mean, I see -- yesterday, in that snow storm, there were people out there taking pictures in front of his house. They arent' going there on Resaca taking pictures. You know what I mean? The people who are taking pictures over there are more or less architecture purists. But Randyland adds a flavor to the neighborhood. His houses are art. His garden is art. His fences are art. And I can't tell you how many thousands of people come through and ask, "Where's Randyland?" So when I think about that, I would love to see more people come into the neighborhood and say, "Where's that sculpture of that cow?" or "Where's that interesting iron bike rack?" I mean, it draws people in and it show the positivity of the neighborhood and its shows that we are welcoming diversity. If they want every house selected, maybe, you know, when I moved here in '78 people didn't want me on my street. They wanted the street- so I'm thinking that it just shows the open mindedness of us, the forward thinking that we have, and I am fully in support of it and I really do love public art. I think, the more the better.</div>
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CB: Can you tell me a little be more about how you've seen the neighborhood change since 78 and how it relates to your claims about "quality of life"? Because it seems that those things are probably connected?</div>
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GM: Um, because I made it that way. I'm from North New Jersey originally, and I was used to having flat land and a park, accessibility, 15 minutes from every mall--I'm not a mall shopper, yet it was there-- when I moved here we did have Allegheny Center Mall and you could buy anything you wanted in the mall. There was butchers, cleaners, appliance stores, jewelery stores, candy stores, five and tens. So, I had three sons, and I didn't want to be a soccer mom, I didn't want to drive, I don't like driving. So, I moved here specifically because of the convenience. And, there was diversity at the the time, but there were more poor people, and there were middle class people as well, not a lot of upper middle class people like there are now. The library was there, the community was really a convenient, cohesive, community. The Garden Theater was there, I didn't like what they were showing, but, there was a cleaners there, bars, stores, bakeries...so in the past thirty-five years the businesses have gone and now they are coming back. So I saw that height of just about every house was occupied, now many of those houses-- through the course of those years many of those houses were occupied by young families, mostly Black people and lower middle class White people, but then, because of the perception of America, many of the black middle class people moved to the suburbs to what they thought would be a better quality of life-- now their houses are worth less than mine and its no more safe in their neighborhoods than it is here, so I think that my quality of life, I'm not saying its improved. I would like to see more Black middle class people in the neighborhood, but they choose to live in the suburbs and thats their issue. I'm not driving my kids everywhere, I have grandchildren now, they have bus passes, they can ride the buses, they can walk to the park, I can walk to the Y. I can bike if I want, walk if I want, walk to work if I want to-- so I chose this quality of life and I've maintained the quality of life that I like, and I like it. Nothing's changed except, like I said, I bought my house for 23k, I put some money into it, but now my house is probably worth 230,000. The house next door to me just solde for 295,000 so I think the housing stock has priced out of the market regular middle class people, so we have more upper-middle class people, people who have more disposable income, but I do see some young families coming back, or younger families coming in, and it is more diverse, we have, as far as sexual orientation we have more gay people, more mature people, the baby-boomers, and now I say Barbie and Ken are moving here. Two professional household where they might have young children, but we didn't have Barbie and Ken here before. And I would say the average person coming in here now is Barbie and Ken, or Barbie and Ken's parents who don't want to commute from the suburbs any more, they want to walk to the opera, or what have you. Barbie and Ken were not here in '78. Almost every person buying a house now is either Barbie and Ken, a baby boomer who wants to move closer into the city, or a gay couple. I don't see any Black middle class people moving back.</div>
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CB: And what do you do with the city?</div>
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GM: I'm a project manager, I'm a financial systems manager, and I'm in what we call Innovation and Performance which in the past was called the Information Technology department. And then I manage folks who support all the financial systems, who support all the communications, telephone, land-line and wireless, and I also manage the city's software inventory.</div>
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GM: I used to work for Verizon. I like technology, because you know, being my age its nice that I have kept in tune with the times, I understand technology and it makes me feel more invigorated. I'm probably the next to the oldest person in the department yet young people respect me because I understand technology, so I go from gardening to working with programmers, and everything in between. And I love it. I love reading, I like poetry, that's why I'm on the City of Asylum board, I'm on the Y board, I like working out, I like yoga, so my life is full and I'm happy with it and don't think I could have that quality of life somewhere else. I put 2,000 miles a year on my car. </div>
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GM: When I go to get my car inspected its like "No!" but I show them my inspection from the previous year and they believe me. I can walk, bike, or ride the bus anywhere. If I lived someplace else...I buy a car and I keep it for ten years, when I Take it in its like 40,000 miles on it, and I don't even think it'll be 40,000 this time. I'll be lucky if I have 20,000 miles on it this time. But this is the quality of life I want. I have my little garden. I have my vegetable garden up the street, I have my flower and herb garden in the back yard. Across the street I have a perennial garden, so that satisfies my gardening. I don't have to drive. My house is plenty big, we have three generations living in my house. We had four generations in the past. So, I have enough space for my family, if I want to be with friends I can, I'm walking distance to entertainment, I can walk to the baseball game, I'm in heaven, you know. This neighborhood offers me everything I want. I am just disappointed that more middle class Black people don't recognize the value of the neighborhood. That's the way it goes.</div>
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GM: I'm just thankful its here. I think River of Words brought so much dialogue to the neighborhood, between the neighbors, and people who come in the neighborhood who say "I see all the words on those houses what are they, what do they mean?" and when we talk about it, and tell them it was a public art project commissioned by City of Asylum and say "I was on the committee that did the selection. We had some local Pittsburgh people, people from New York, from Atlanta, and the people who won of course were from Venezuela," but it truly shows that we had an international, a diversity of submissions, we went through a planning process and a review process and picked that particular group, so that whole process was exciting. So I was happy to be involved from beginning to end and happy to benefit from having the words, and the more public art the merrier for me!</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-81305125606120448992015-04-28T09:18:00.003-11:002015-04-28T09:18:40.397-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Timothy Johnson, "Book" and Art as Mind ExpandingOn February 22nd I interviewed Timothy Johnson, who has recently moved to the North Side, though he is a native Pittsburgher. His word is "Book," a term that speaks to his wife's book-writing project, and his own Christian faith. Having the word, he recounted, has given him a chance to talk to people about his spiritual identity, but also is a way of learning about neighbors. "Art," he argued, "is by definition mind expanding."<br />
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TJ: OK. I am Tim Johnson, and I live at 1241 Monterrey Street in the War Streets. I am 55 years old, and married. My wife and I are empty nesters. We just moved here about a year ago. We bought a home in the War Streets about ten months prior, and did a renovation, and the work was done in about February of last year. </div>
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TJ: African American.</div>
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TJ: All my life, really. I've had some stints in other cities but the majority of my life has been in Pittsburgh. I was born in Pittsburgh.</div>
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TJ: The primary district.</div>
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TJ: I was on my way home, I had taken the T over to the North Shore, and had walked through the Park and crossed North Avenue walking up Monterrey Street and I had passed a word on my street that was in green lettering and kind of wondered what it meant but didn't know a whole lot about it, and as I approached my home, my neighbor to my left had just completed having a word stenciled on their window, and so I inquired about it, and made a very quick decision, without consulting my wife, that this was a good idea, and so I selected a word and it was installed by the artists right there at my house.</div>
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TJ: I guess a couple of reasons. One, there were only about a half dozen words left at that point. I hadn't really heard of the project until that date. Two, the word struck me. My wife is working on a book right now. And she is spending a lot of time on it, and it reminded me of the work that she is doing, and secondly, I am a Christian, and the first Bible that I owned was called The Book, and obviously the word connected me, reminded me [of] that experience. So that's why I selected it.</div>
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TJ: No, the meaning hasn't changed. The experience has changed because people have inquired about it. So its been great to tell people about that experience and kind of re-live it. It was kind of social. I bet you there were a half-dozen people in front of my house when the word was stencilled on the window, and I've got photographs of it, and we even took a minute and had some water and iced tea, so it was kind of nice.</div>
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CB: Are there any instances that stick out in mind of interactions that you have had around the word?</div>
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TJ: You know, its funny, one is that there are several words on my street that I hadn't really recognized until I got a word. And then it made me see some of the words that were there. The word that I mentioned earlier, its just a green word and it kind of popped out at you and it made me wonder what it was about?</div>
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TJ: Well, personally, its got personal meaning to me. Its given me a chance to tell people my story, my Christian story, and, you know, motivated my wife to work a little harder on that book. Every day she walks in she's got to look at that word in the front window. And as I learned that this was bigger than just my word and my block, I attended the ceremony that was held when there was an unveiling of the poetry. There were a lot of people there that were sharing similar stories. If it weren't for that, I guess I would have remained curious and unaware of what all these words meant. </div>
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CB: Great. Ok. So I'm going to turn now to the Historic Review Commission situation. Can you tell me what you know about it, and what your thoughts are on it?</div>
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TJ: I don't have any view about the historic review commission at all, quite frankly, I mean, my decision wasn't influenced by politics or bureaucracy. I know that as I've talked to my neighbors, I like this idea that there can be an artistic expression and there can be artistic -- I'm not an artist, I am a photographer, I guess you can call that art, but I'm not a professional-- but there are several very talented people in this neighborhood. So the idea that they can exhibit their work, and others of us can enjoy it, I think that's a great idea. </div>
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CB: Do you think the words should stay up?</div>
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TJ: Absolutely. Absolutely. I am even a little perplexed as to how anybody could defend taking a word off of a house. I mean, its no different than putting a "For Sale" sign in a window, you know what I mean, or a "For Rent" sign, or a political sign.</div>
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CB: I guess one of the arguments or concerns that were raised were about precedent, and so, there if is a precedent of allowing this kind of art, then what comes next. Yeah.</div>
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TJ: Yeah, but what kind of argument is that?</div>
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CB: I don't know. It's interesting.</div>
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TJ: Art by definition is mind-expanding, so how can you set a precedent not to expand peoples' minds? That doesn't make a lot of sense.</div>
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CB: So that leads really nicely into my last, broader questions, which is what do you think the purpose of public art is in the North Side and in Pittsburgh, and who does it serve and what is its broader impact?</div>
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TJ: Yeah. I hadn't thought much about it until I moved here and I had a chance to experience it first-hand. I think its got a real potential of distinguishing the North Side, and bringing people to the North Side to enjoy and appreciate something, you know. The Tree that is a gift kind of, that has been shared, between the artist and the public. I know that as I've learned more, I've now been able to go around the neighborhood and see some things that I didn't even know existed, and I've got to tell you, I believe that if it weren't for the art and the publicity of the art, I'm not sure that I would have had a chance to enjoy it. So I think the two go hand-in-hand. I totally support the artists' expression, and the idea that the art should be public. I totally support that as well.</div>
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CB: OK. What is it that you do?</div>
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TJ: I run a pension fund. I manage money and get a chance to help people as they are transitioning from the end of their work life into their retirement life.</div>
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CB: Cool. Is there anything else that you would like to add that I haven't given you a chance to talk about?</div>
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TJ: No there really isn't.</div>
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CB: OK. Thank you.</div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-83076187972053566872015-04-28T08:52:00.000-11:002015-04-28T08:52:14.570-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Lynn Kosegi, The "Use" and "Equation" of Public Art as Identity CreationLynn Kosegi, who I interviewed March 7th, has a cool story of growing up, moving away from, and then returning to the North Side, a homecoming that was facilitated by the River of Words project, one which, in her view, allows the "non artistic" of the neighborhood to fully participate in its cultural life. Moreover, public art, she argued, is vital to "creating identity and communicating that identity" both internally and externally. In this interview about the effect of the River of Words, there is a call to imagine "historic districts" as still culturally vital and involved in the work of the present.<br />
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Thanks, Lynn!<br />
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CB: I"m not sure how much Henry told you about what I am doing and my project but I am a professor at Pitt and I study public art, and that's what draw's me to the River of Words project, and so what I am trying to do is create like an accessible archive of reactions from the words. So, that's what I'm up to.</div>
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LK: OK.</div>
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CB: Do I have your permission to audio record this?</div>
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LK: Yes.</div>
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CB: I wanted to thank you for being here with me. I am here with Lynn Kosegi as part of the River of Words Oral History Project (march 7). My first question is demographic, I am trying to get a sense of the diversity of the participants, so, could you tell me your full name, your address, your age, your marital, and your race or ethnicity, please.</div>
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LK: Sure. My name is Lynn Kosegi. K-O-S-E-G-I. My address is 1223 Arch Street, Pittsburgh 15212, in the Mexican War Streets. I am married. I am 53 years old. What else?</div>
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CB: Whatever race or ethnicity I identify as.</div>
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LK: I am white.</div>
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CB: Ok. so your house falls within the city historic district, is that right?</div>
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LK: No, actually its not in the City Preservation District, we are one street away.</div>
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CB: OK, cool. I wanted to turn now to the River of Words project. Can you tell me what word you have, how you got involved, and kind of what that experience was like?</div>
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LK: Sure. I have two words: "Use" and "Equation." I got into the project, my husband and I just moved to the War Streets over the summer so we actually bought the house in May but we didn't actually move in until July. So we moved in right before they were beginning to put the words up. I learned about the project on Facebook. I just fell in love with the War Streets and learning all about it and following the Facebook page, and checking out the website, and things like that, didn't even know that the City of Asylum existed. I didn't even know it was there until we moved down here and I started reading up on it and I thought the project was really interesting. I like to read, do a little bit of writing myself, so I just thought it was really interesting so I signed up for the project. I happened to be home and not at work when they came by to put the words up, and I chose the words because I work very closely at my job, I work for a technology company in Pittsburgh, its a Pittsburgh-based company, and we do software for healthcare providers. And, so I work, at work, I work with a lot of interns out of Pitt mostly, and we have a program at work where I work real closely with the people who are interns, and the ones who are good, and they are a good fit for the organization, we hire them. And we've had a very successful program there, and I just love working with the students, and love working with them after they get hire, so that's basically why I chose the word "use." "Equation" I think I chose for a couple of reasons. Just because, I'm pretty involved in healthcare, very interested in healthcare delivery, work for a software company, so, you know, mathematics and tech is very big in our minds, and using it to improve healthcare and to improve life for patients and then coming to the War Streets, sort of seeing how the different pieces of this particular neighborhood fit together, and how diverse it is, and how there are such interesting things right down the street like City of Asylum and the Mattress Factory and Randyland. I just kind of thought "Equation" was something that brought everything all together.</div>
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CB: Great. And so can you tell me what it's been like having the words on your house? Have any </div>
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LK: Oh! I happened to have been home the day that they [the artists] came by to put them [the words] up and a lot of people in the neighborhood, they hadn't read about it, and particularly my next door neighbor, she came out and was kind of just wondering what was going on and so I told her, and so the artists came over and were talking to her and here she's been-- they were from Venezuela, and she had been there several times, so she asked "Oh, can I have a word too?" so she picked a word too, and then it turned out that some people across the street saw it, and everybody was just asking about, "Well, what are these words," and here, when they put the word "Equation" up it was actually spelled wrong, so instead of having a "q" it had a "c" and I kind of kept my mouth shut and was thinking, "Oh, maybe that's how its spelled in Spanish?" I don't know, but then one of the artists pointed it out, and were like "Oh no!" it was kind of half the Spanish spelling and half the English spelling so they brought back another piece of metal later on to turn the "c" into a "q." So, it was kind of funny. So that was funny, just the reactions to that, and then the reactions from the neighbors, it was just fun. We were all just standing outside on the sidewalk on a summer's day and it was just fun. I don't intend to take them down. I like them.</div>
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CB: Have the meanings of the words changed to you at all since you've had them installed?</div>
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LK: No, I think they have stayed about the same. I think the one that might've changed a little bit for me was "equation" just as I got to know the neighborhood a little bit better and just became really-- I know parts of the war streets that are in the historic preservation section, there is kind of this debate about "Well, you can only do things to your houses if its approved," and I like that, one part of me really likes the idea of historic preservation, but the other part of me really likes the idea of being able to do whatever you want with your house, and also has a lot of sympathy with people who, if you have to have a window fixed you might not be able to afford to have it done the way that it originally needs to be done. I can really see both sides of the equation, I guess you could say, but I think that it is terrific that this is a neighborhood where all of those things can be welcome. You can have a place like Randyland, or a place like mine where the door frame is kind of pink, but then you can have the places that are very very historically correct, and you know, all living in the same neighborhood.</div>
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CB: Great. Well that leads very nicely into my next questions, which is, how much do you know about the HRC's relationship to the River of Words project and do you have any opinions about what should be done with the River of Words project for the historic houses in the neighborhood?</div>
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LK: I haven't been really involved in it. It doesn't really effect me because my street, I can leave them up, there is no argument on my street, so I haven't had to fight for it or anything. You know, its art, its the neighborhood, its the culture of this neighborhood. The culture of this neighborhood is its diversity and is its uniqueness, and I think it would be a shame to turn it into a neighborhood that, while beautiful, was kind of a cookie-cutter neighborhood. I like the diversity and the unexpectedness and not knowing what you might see going around every corner. So, you know, when it comes to being able to leave the words up on the houses, I definitely think people should be allowed to do that.</div>
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CB: So the last questions I have is about public art more generally. Can you tell me what you think the role or the social function of public art is both in the North Side and then in Pittsburgh more broadly?</div>
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LK: Oh gosh. I think helping to both create an identity for a community. I think it actually helps to create the community. Especially for a city like Pittsburgh that, I mean, I was a teenager in the 70s and I can remember when the mills started leaving and when Pittsburgh was really suffering, and I really think the arts and that kind of culture is part of what helped turn this city around and to turn it into the kind of city that ends up on every "Best Something or Other" list that is out there right now, and I think art plays a huge part in that, both in creating the community that we are and in communicating who we are to the rest of the world. </div>
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CB: That's great. So have you lived in Pittsburgh your entire life?</div>
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LK: Yeah, yeah. My family is all from Pittsburgh, we started out on the North Side, we lived right off Perrysville highway and kind of late in the 60s the neighborhood got a little bit dangerous and, you know, like a lot of families did, we moved further north into the northern suburbs, but then as my children got older and they grow up I just really wanted to move back to the city, so my husband and I started looking around at different areas of the city, and just really liked the idea of coming back to the North Side.</div>
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CB: Yeah. What a cool story. Is there anything else that you'd like to say that I haven't given you a chance to talk about?</div>
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LK: Um, no, I don't think so. I hope that there are other projects like the River of Words in the future. I think that the City of Asylum does great work, and its fun to have something where the non-creative and artistic among us, like me, can actually be a part of something like that. So I hope they do more projects like that.</div>
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CB: Excellent, well thank you so much Lynn.</div>
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LK: You are very welcome.</div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-45239415851794680782015-04-27T08:42:00.001-11:002015-04-27T08:42:06.294-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Sarah Sims Erwin, "Persistence" and the ability of a neighborhood to shineOn March 7th I conducted a phone interview with Sarah Sims Erwin, while she was in the process of moving. Sarah and her husband are completing a gut renovation of a 160 year old duplex in Deutschtown. The process has been replete with difficulties, obstacles that make their word "persistence" a kind of "mantra" or even "beacon of hope," "perfect" for their emotional and imaginative needs during a difficult endeavor.<br />
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Sarah said of the HRC dispute: "I think its a shame because its something that is special and they just want to take that away. I think that for them to want to, to ask us to take them down, is asking us to not shine, and to not be a unique place. There may be people around the world who are interested in seeing this installation." She said of the project: "I feel connected and being a good neighbor is very important to us, so it's an artistic extension of that of being reminded that you are part of a community." You can find the rest of her observations in the transcript below. Thanks, Sarah!<br />
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CB: OK great, thanks so much for your time. I want to start with some demographic information I would like to get a sense of the diversity of participants. Do you mind sharing your address, age, marital status, then whatever race or ethnicity you identify with.</div>
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SE: The address is 406 Foreland Street, um, I think I am 48-- am I forty-eight [to husband] I am around forty-eight.</div>
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CB: Great, and what race or ethnicity do you identify as.</div>
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SE: Yeah, I'm forty-eight. Caucasian. </div>
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SE: Married.</div>
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CB: Great. Do you know if your residence falls within the historic city district?</div>
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SE: It does, but not in the Mexican War Streets. Our property is in the historic district south east of the Mexican War Streets in the neighborhood called Deutschetown. </div>
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CB: OK. And how long have you lived in the North Side?</div>
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SE: Well, Caitlin, we don't live there yet, we are-- our case is kind of cool. I think, we've been so busy, one of the reasons I wanted to talk to you, we, my husband Dominic and I bought a house, we bought a duplex and its a gut renovation.</div>
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SE: We can't live there yet, but we've been property owners for about a year and a half.</div>
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CB: Ok, cool. How long have you lived in Pittsburgh?</div>
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SE: Actually, five, six seven eight...a year and nine months. Pittsburgh..we have lived in Pittsburgh for fourteen months, but I am a boomerang, I hate that word actually, I am a returning Pittsburgher, and my husband, he is a native New Yorker who now lives here with me.</div>
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CB: So I'm going to turn now to the River of Words project. Can you tell me what your word is and how you got involved in the project, and what that experience was like.</div>
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SE: OK. Well, our word is "Persistence," [laughs] and I got involved in the project because really through social media, um, but I only had awareness of City of Asylum through friends I made. I made a new friend when I moved back fourteen months ago, and the back of her house faces Sampsonia. She was talking about how great City of Asylum is, so I of course connected to them through Facebook and they are amazing, and they are a treasure, and to a native Pittsburgher it is very special that they are in Pittsburgh, so I wanted to, you know, bask in that glow, so to speak. Be near them. Because they are so cool. And then, they must of posted it on facebook I think. I mean, I don't even really know how it happened, so I just heard about it and wanted to get involved.</div>
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CB: OK cool. So, can you tell me, did you have any interactions with the artists, and why did you pick the word persistence, what did it mean to you at the time? Why persistence, why choose that word?</div>
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SE: Interaction with the artists didn't exist, because we don't live there. But they were so great. They just followed our wishes, like I said, it was a duplex, and we didn't exactly know where to put the word, but we have one of those old fashioned walkways between the two little houses and if you will indulge me, I am going to look up what it is called, it is pretty neat. Let's see, I met with some people, and I was describing this old house-- our house is 160 years old. </div>
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CB: Yeah, thats pretty old.</div>
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SE: So the people we met, they called those little walk-ways between buildings "Horse walks," where back in the day, if you were rich enough to have a horse, you could walk your horse through the building.</div>
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SE: Yeah, really awesome. So, a horse-walk has to be covered over because there are drug addicts who are shooting heroin in our back courtyard, and there are prostitutes that do their work behind, and people like to litter and graffiti on our property since we are not living there, we want to make sure that they don't get hurt, and that we don't get sued, so we have the horse-walk, and that term is not confirmed, blocked off with plywood, and it was the perfect spot for the word. It kind of--it bridges the two houses and its just right out there, and the house looks like a total wreck, we've had a lot of obstacles in our way with our renovation, and its our beacon of hope, it really is. And when I went to that event, that party in the tent, I didn't know anybody. Even though I am a returning Pittsburgher I still feel new to town, so I walked in and I didn't know anyone, you know, I felt like an outsider. But I walked in and all the words were posted up on the right side, and I just started looking at the words, and I started from the left and was gonna go to the right, and the first word that I remember seeing was "Persistence." And, that was how I picked it. It was perfect. For what we needed.</div>
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CB: That's really cool. My next question might not apply so much since you are not living there yet, but one of the other things I am interested in is whether or not new interactions have happened, that you know of, because of your word, if you've met new people because of the word.</div>
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SE: All the time. Yeah. Because we are down there a lot, trying to get the project back on track, and I honestly can't say people's names, but people do stop and there is a fellowship between the people who have the words and its-- actually in AIR studios, Artist Image Resource, on Foreland Street, just down the street from me, they have a word too. So most of the words are probably in the Mexican War Streets but I know two of us in Deutschtown who have words, and I feel, I feel connected and being a good neighbor is very important to us, so it's an artistic extension of that of being reminded that you are part of a community.</div>
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CB: Awesome. And has the meaning of the word changed for you at all since you had it installed over six months ago now, I guess?</div>
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SE: No, because our obstacles remain. We got burned by a contractor who was a personal friend, and that set us back-- that has had, what do they say, like ripples in a pond, that continues to hurt us financially and emotionally, because it was a friend, and as a result of not being able to live in the house we have had to spend our money on rent, and all the expenses associated, like utilities, and we are paying the mortgage on a house we are not living in and also renting, um, and we've had some challenges with the Historic Review Commission, they are concerned about the appearance of our house, which of course we care about. We do want what they want but lots of money was stolen from us, so we don't have endless pocket...deep pockets. We have pockets, but we don't have deep pockets. So, every obstacle that comes to us, the word continues to be our, I don't know, our mantra, our hope.</div>
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CB: So I want to turn now to the Historic Review Commission, I guess dispute about some of the words that fall within their jurisdiction. How much do you know about what's going on with that, and depending on what you know, do you have any thoughts on what the HRC should do?</div>
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SE: Wow. Well, I do know a little bit about it. It might not be a lot. I didn't go to the hearing where that lawyer/resident was presenting, I was out of town, I think -- I wish my husband was still in the car, he just got out to go to the store, he has stronger opinions about it-- but I think it is a shame that they-- she, Caitlin asked me about the HRC and their disapproval of the words on the houses-- I think its a shame because its something that is special and they just want to take that away. I think that for them to want to, to ask us to take them down, is asking us to not shine, and to not be a unique place. There may be people around the world who are interested in seeing this installation. Or the remnants of it, the people who still want to keep the words up. What they are saying is that it is not good for Pittsburgh. I get that their mission is to help Pittsburgh be a historic place. But I think a historic place can live in the modern world, too. And, this is a modern thing, and I think that they can go together.</div>
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CB: That leads to my last question which is your thoughts on the social purpose of public art in the North Side and in Pittsburgh more generally. So what is the function of public art for the North Side or for Pittsburgh in your opinion?</div>
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SE: Well, I see the public art, of which there is a lot, we are so lucky, it just makes it special. It makes it a place of beauty and it makes it a place, I don't know. It's like, when people come to visit they can discover that on their own, or they could set out and go on a walking tour of the different pieces. I think it's worth investing in. I think its important. Obviously, in some ways, we wouldn'tve participated [in River of Words] if we didn't think it was important. </div>
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CB: Sure.</div>
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SE: We are sort of a self-selecting group.</div>
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CB: This is true. Yeah. Is there anything else that you'd like to say about River of Words or City of </div>
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SE: No, but I'm so happy that they are our neighbors and I love their houses on Sampsonia, and something the North Side is lucky to house, if you will. Its great that its on the North Side.</div>
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CB: Well, that is all the questions that I have thanks so much for your time.</div>
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SE: Sure, because our word is so harmonious with the state of the house, do you want a picture of it or something?</div>
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CB: Yeah, that'd be awesome if you are willing to share. </div>
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SE: Sure.</div>
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CB: OK, you have my contact info. I think my little blog is visible in my signature panel, but in any case, its just my name at blogspot so I'm going to work through all the interviews and I am hoping to get transcripts up by early to mid April depending on how long it takes. But thanks again for your time, if you have any questions feel free to email. Good luck with the renovations.</div>
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SE: Come by and visit it, it is one of the oldest houses in the neighborhood. </div>
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CB: OK I definitely will. OK take care.</div>
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SE: Awesome. Bye.</div>
Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-27252108524993366352015-04-27T07:39:00.002-11:002015-04-27T07:39:42.084-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Elaine Stone on "Ginger," "Zombies," and "Put Yourself in Others' Shoes"-- Public art as magnet and connectorOn March 22nd I interviewed Elaine Stone who co-runs a family owned business, "Smart Solution Technologies" in the buildings of a former flashlight manufacturer. Her three words are "Ginger," "Zombies," and the phrase, "Put yourself in others' shoes."<br />
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The first word, for her, reflects a family joke. The second, her family's intense relationships to zombie narratives, and the third, a recognition of the fact that difficult circumstances (including questions of addiction) impact nearly every family in the U.S. The project as a whole, she explained, was a "non invasive" way of cultivating community connections. Public art as a genre also functions as a "draw" or a way to boost a neighborhood that may, for various reasons, be in decline. She reflected on some of the "fussiness" about "historical purity" in her own neighborhood of West-Allegheny, a concern that also might apply to the city historic district of the Mexican War Streets.<br />
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CB: OK, I am here with Elaine Stone and the date is March 22, 2015 and we are participating in the River of Words Oral History Project. Thanks for coming in to talk with me today.</div>
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ES: You are welcome.</div>
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CB: I wanted to start with some demographic data, to get a sense of the diversity of the participants, so if you could give me your name, address, age, race or ethnicity you identify with, marital status.</div>
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ES: Name, Elaine Stone. Address is 831 West North Avenue. I am 57, I am married...what did I miss?</div>
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CB: Race you identify with?</div>
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ES: White.</div>
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CB: Great. Do you know if your house falls within the city historic district?</div>
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ES: It does not.</div>
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CB: How long have you lived in the North Side?</div>
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ES: Hm. I have only been on the North Side going on two years, but we have owned the building since 2010.</div>
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CB: Mhmm. How long have you lived in Pittsburgh?</div>
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ES: I've lived in Pittsburgh since 1981.</div>
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CB: So you have probably seen it changing a lot, since then, that's great.</div>
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ES: Yeah.</div>
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ES: You know, to tell you the truth, I think I read about the project in the North Side newspaper, and when I read about the project and they were looking for volunteers for the words I called. You know, the arts, being involved in the arts, I was on the board of the Mattress Factory, my background is in the arts, I knew about the City of Asylum, I have been a fan of what they do and they have done a great job here, and so-- and the fact that it was kind of community-wide interested me, so.</div>
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CB: What word or words did you pick?</div>
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Caitlin's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982733491375130531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846422715248022477.post-38051832839185215052015-04-23T07:52:00.002-11:002015-05-02T10:40:48.287-11:00River of Words Oral History Project: Terri and Jorg Wiezoreck, "Be Good," Re-Connecting to CommunityI got to meet with the lovely crew of Terri and Jorg Wiezoreck, and their two kids, Mateus and Ana who provided silent and not-so-silent commentary throughout our interview. Their house boasts the word "Be Good," a phrase, Jorg reflected, that serves as a subtle reminder that one should strive to be good "inside and out." The River of Words project, he explained, serves as a kind of connection or spark for "trains of thought" as well as a means, Terri added, to reconnect with community, even with the time and energy demands of parenthood. The installation process served as an opportunity for "childish (in a good way) fun" for the adults in the neighborhood, to compare the words picked, to take pictures with their words and neighbors, a kind of "mini-explosion" of conviviality. The project is a source of "great affection" for the community, Terri commented, and a subtle reminder, Jorg noted, of one's neighbors just by seeing the words they picked and remembering conversations about why they were chosen. Thanks so much for your time!<br />
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TW: My parents live in the 1200 block, I believe you interviewed my mom, and so they are part of the City Historic District, where it effects them, and you know, my first thought was, "It's words, it's art, how could this be a problem?" I understand the larger legal issues of if its in a historic district and you are saying anybody can put any word, or sort of...I see both sides of wanting to preserve the art. And people are very attached to their words. It meant a lot to a lot of people to be part of this project. Not being in a city historic district, we plan to leave ours up indefinitely. I like having it there. And it would be a shame if there was just, sort of, along the city historic district line, if the project was truncated, because I believe most people who are outside of the city historic district plan to keep their words up. I would hope that somehow the Historic Review Commission could, in whatever way, just acknowledge that the individual houses in the City Historic District are part of this larger project, and that there is value in keeping the larger project intact, since, overwhelmingly people want to keep it intact.</div>
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TW: One of the things about public art, there is so much diversity in this neighborhood that we do have struggles and we do have tensions with everybody wanting to be recognized and included as they should, and I think in the neighborhood one of the times we failed was when we tried to come up with just one thing that everybody feels they can buy into. Because, everybody wants to be recognized for their individual contributions and differences, and I think public art is a great way that people can express their part of the community. They can express themselves. We have Jefferson Community Center near our house and there is a large mural on a retaining wall on the side of the basketball court and there were some people, I admit, I got very upset with, because they felt that the mural didn't reflect them, it just reflected a certain segment of the population, but I think there is so much room that we can have public art expressing everybody's contribution. And so I think public art is a great way for everybody, if you look at public art as a single thing everybody can contribute a piece of it, and so it can accomplish that overall goal of reflecting who lives here. It can reflect the diversity of everyone who is here.</div>
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RM: OK. OK, so my name is Randi Marshak. I live at 406 N Taylor Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, I am 53 and I am white and I am married.</div>
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RM: Yes. It's across the street.</div>
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RM: Yeah, because I don't think this [City of Asylum office] is.</div>
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RM: 15 years.</div>
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RM: Let's see. About 20.</div>
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RM: Well, so, I know of City of Asylum, because I live across the street, or, my garage is across the street and we are on Taylor at the front of the house. So, I always like to support them, and I think I was at a concert down the street and then they had the words, and I just asked what it was about, they told me, and you know, I always like to support them, and anything that can be community-wise...I was on the Central North Side Community Board too, and one of our...I was involved in the Community Plan, and part of it supports public art in our community, in the Central North Side, so I wanted to support that.</div>
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RM: I chose balloon.</div>
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RM: Well, when the words were up I saw a lot of them were in foreign languages, and unfortunately, at the time I missed it, the way it was set up, I didn't know that translations, and I wanted to pick a word that I knew what I meant. I picked another world at first but then I thought "balloon" was more fun and you know, uplifting, balloon.</div>
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RM: Um, you know, so many people around here are familiar with the project, so I can't say that I met anybody new because of the word, I did have some out of town friends who were like "What is this? Why do you have balloon on your window?" And then I explained what it was and then when we were walking around the neighborhood they were like, "Oh look! There's one, there's one," you know? And it was fun to see that.</div>
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RM: Hmm. I think it's just a nice way the community can express its uniqueness and its support for the City of Asylum and for public art. It became very popular. Even people who missed out wanted to be involved and I noticed that accross the street people just put up their own words, like the garage right across the street [from City of Asylum]. </div>
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RM: I think they put up their own words, and I know of other people who kind of missed out and put up their own words.</div>
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RM: Um, no, I don't think so. I think sort of that uplifting thing. When I walk by, or drive by, and see other words its funny, like, the one is "Fly," and the way they kind of did it in script its fun...and then you walk by other and are like "Ooh, I wouldnt've picked that, 'emptiness'...I wouldn't want that!" and so its just interesting the way some of them affect you. And then I've gone, when I've passed words that are in other languages I will use my cell phone and try to get the translation.</div>
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CB: Sort of like, I don't know, re-mapping or re-understanding the neighborhood. That's really cool.</div>
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RM: Yeah, I am aware of it. And I think they should just leave it alone. They're removable [the words] and they are not severely changing the facades of homes, which is the basic thing with the HRC, that the facade should stay historic. So, just, adding a flowerbox, adding an amenity, and its nothing that can't be removed, or is really taking away from the historic facade. So, yeah, I think they need to back off. [Laughs]</div>
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RM: Well, I think that public art is an amenity. It can bring up a neighborhood. It gives people something to be proud of in their neighborhood. Just like litter can bring down a neighborhood I think public art can bring it up.</div>
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RM: No, I'm just happy its here. I hope it can stay for as long as people want. I think it was very well done which is why it was so well supported and it was nice that, I didn't think that there was going to be...I thought they'd [the artists] put up the words but I didn't realize that all the words were going to be different colors, different materials and different script, and I think that really added to the project.</div>
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