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Urban Interventions
An Exhibition

15-18 January 2013

 
Lindsey Devers

The exhibit consists of student outcomes from the Parsons The New School For Design studio course, Urban Interventions. In this course, students developed thematically linking interventions based off their research of Phnom Penh visiting artists as part of the Living Arts City in association with the Season of Cambodia, NYC, resulting socially engaged art and design. Projects ranged from the static object to spontaneous interventions.

Urban Interventions are inherently playful and accessible to anyone as both art and design, yet perhaps it’s biggest impact is that of surprise and generosity. This now global practice boldly attempts to apply an additional layer to the urban landscape, a total use, a ply that suggests that there is a more complete relationship to be had with the consuming public as the maker and the user.

In this studio, students investigated possibilities of using the means and methods of public art and street art in order to make alienated places personal and impersonal spaces thoughtful. In Stages, students conceived, prepared and disseminated built or performed works that are accessible and integrated into NYC neighborhoods.

Urban Interventions explored both the history and practical methodologies of contemporary public art and street art with an emphasis placed on public interventions that serve as communal ruptures into utilitarian urban environments. Students had to ask themselves how would their interests and focus translate into the public sphere? Through research and art/design responses, student developed a critical understanding of the visual landscape and the role social agency plays in the complex processes of urban transformation.

Artists:
Rosy Chayo
Lindsey Devers
Ian Gardiner
Nicholas Kleist
Monica Lee
Laura Moen
Mohammed Sardar
Madison Stirling
Melissa Trevens
Zoe Yates

Instructor:
Adam Brent