[DowntownArtists] Fwd: Creative Fix on Sat. May 30th!

Tue May 26 03:25:12 MDT 2009

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> From: compactspace LA <lax at compactspace.com>
> Date: May 25, 2009 11:17:32 PM PDT
> To: <mark at markwalshdesigns.com>
> Subject: Creative Fix on Sat. May 30th!
> Reply-To: compactspace LA <lax at compactspace.com>
>
> ARTISTS!!!
>
> Please join us the day after our Dark Tower Reception for:
>
> CREATIVE FIX by Sheryl Oring
> Saturday, May 30th 3-7pm
> compactspace Gallery
>
> In her new project CREATIVE FIX,
> Sheryl Oring asks artists:
>
> WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO FIX THE COUNTRY
> IF YOU COULD DO ANYTHING AT ALL?
>
> Artists of all types -- writers, musicians, visual artists,  
> architects --
> are invited to participate. Sheryl will be taping 1-minute responses
> to be posted on YouTube
>
> MORE INFO below and at:
> youtube.com/iwishtosay
>
> contact: oring at iwishtosay.org
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> ‘Creative Fix’ Invites
> Artists to Play an Active Role in Politics
>
> May 2, 3 to 6 p.m., Agitprop
> 2837 University Avenue (entrance on Utah), North Park, San Diego
>
> May 30, 3 to 7 p.m., compactspace,
> 105 E 6th Street, Los Angeles
>
> In her upcoming project, “Creative Fix,” Sheryl Oring asks artists  
> what they would do to fix the country if they could do anything at  
> all. Oring, 43, is a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts candidate at  
> the University of California, San Diego. She is calling artists to  
> Agitprop in San Diego on May 2, and compactspace in Los Angeles on  
> May 30, to discuss their creative solutions for our country. Oring  
> will make one-minute videos of their answers and post them on  
> YouTube. By doing so, Oring hopes to bring artists into the  
> contemporary political debate. Artists of all types – writers,  
> musicians, visual artists, architects etc. – are invited to  
> participate.
>
> “Creative Fix” is currently California-based and has the potential  
> to expand to an international scale as viewers respond to the videos  
> posted on Oring’sYouTube channel: www.youtube.com/iwishtosay.  The  
> final shape of the participatory project depends on the creativity  
> of respondents.
>
> The idea for “Creative Fix” grew out of Oring’s most recent past  
> work, a public art project called “I Wish to Say.” For this, Oring  
> set out to gather public opinion during the 2008 presidential  
> election by setting up an “office” – complete with a manual  
> typewriter – in public places and inviting passersby to dictate  
> postcards to the next president. Many people spoke out for change,  
> and Oring feels the challenges facing this nation demand attention  
> from more than just the usual suspects. Artists, she said, can offer  
> a fresh perspective on many of the most pressing issues of the day.
>
> In other parts of the world, artists play a legitimate role in  
> politics and political debate,” said Oring, citing examples such as  
> Václav Havel, the playwright who became president of Czechoslovakia,  
> and the German political system, in which the arts play a  
> significant role in local and national political institutions. “In  
> the U.S., however, artists are seen as suspect. I’d like to do one  
> small thing to change this and bring more creativity to American  
> politics.”
>
> Oring is a first-year MFA student focused on public culture. Led by  
> architect Teddy Cruz, Public Culture is a new emphasis at UC San  
> Diego’s Department of Visual Arts. "At a time when everyone is  
> searching for solutions to the current crisis, hopefully, these  
> solutions are not just understood as an excuse to maintain a  
> 'lifestyle', the models of urban growth that has become  
> unsustainable,” Cruz said. “So, more than solutions, we should be  
> searching for new types of 'arrangements' to alter the way we have  
> been selfishly consuming our economic and natural resources."
>
> More About the Artist:
>
> Sheryl Oring is the author of “I Wish to Say: The Birthday Project,”  
> a book published in 2008 that features a collection of birthday  
> cards for former President George Bush, which were dictated at  
> public events Oring held in eight cities across the country. Named  
> ABC News’ Person of the Week by Peter Jennings for her performance  
> piece “I Wish to Say” during the 2004 Republican Convention in New  
> York City, Oring is a former journalist (The New York Times, the San  
> Francisco Chronicle, Die Welt) whose provocative work explores the  
> intersection of language, politics and memory. Her past work  
> includes “Writing Home,” a performance in which she invited people  
> to dictate letters to their ancestors; and “Writer’s Block,” a  
> sculptural installation made out of hundreds of antique typewriters.  
> She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation,  
> New York Foundation for the Arts and the Robert Bosch Foundation;  
> held a residency as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s  
> Swing Space program; and exhibited in museums, cultural centers,  
> galleries and public spaces in the United States, Europe and India.  
> Oring has a degree in journalism from the University of Colorado,  
> Boulder, and has studied art history and theory at the Humboldt  
> University in Berlin. She is working on an MFA in visual arts with  
> an emphasis in public culture at UC San Diego.
>
>
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