May 2010
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Columbia Ride is now ready for download. →
Vélo City PDF's
Here is the link for the intro which includes the essay portion. Simply click the link and the download should begin automatically.
and here’s the chapter from the Springwater Corridor ride.
and the Joyous Lakes ride
and the Columbia ride is still uploading. I will post a link when it’s done.
btw I’m Greg W. Yeti on Facebook should anyone want to stay in touch and...
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The book for my Exploding Museum
Book
-Jessica Mallett Fleming
In with the New, In with the Old, Old in the New
My exploiding museum was buildings that connected the pre-modern generation to post-modern generation people and atmospheres. The importance was showing the buildings preserving their character and history, while taking the effect of contemporization. And the need to preserve historys effect on contemporization of brand new buildings, creating a classic look. …All looking into how people...
Legacy Fountain
Introduction
The Legacy Fountain is located in the Portland, Oregon Waterfront Park. It is the location of the Saturday Market, an event held on the weekends where local artists and the community come together.
The fountain is a recent development of the Portland Waterfront Park. The fountain was created by the City of Portland and Portland Parks Foundation and was opened to the public on August...
Political Humor and Resistance (?)
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State 1st floor women’s bathroom.
This person with the pink marker seemed to have a lot to say and a sense of humor.
Did the larger liberal context of Portland cause the writer to name Sarah Palin while only alluding to President Obama?
Where: Backspace Internet Cafe and Event Space
Is this indicative of a sound bite culture? Is...
Sex, Sex and More SEX and Irony
Where: Hot Lips Pizza, ladies room. All 4.
*In the men’s room, were only two tags both referencing veganism.
Be it the internet or the bathroom stall, the world if full of sex at every corner. Sex is in your face and loving it.
Notice edits to previous work in the second photo. It seemingly said “circumsized penis - yummy” and someone evidently wrote in the...
Alternative Surfaces: Tiles, Stickers and...
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State. 1st Floor ladies bathroom.
Apparent frustration with higher education that is felt by others.
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State. 1st Floor ladies bathroom trash.
A more convicting post that had apparent backlash by a following person who seemed to unsuccessfully peel the sticker from its corners. Someone sensitive to...
Artwork
Backspace Internet Cafe and Event Space, right-side bathroom. Downtown Portland.
Hot Lips Pizza, ladies bathroom.
Large Scale work with responses branching off.
Hot Lips Pizza, ladies bathroom. Random.
As visible in the top photo, some people spend a lot of time in the bathroom in order to contribute to its wall. The norm and rules of this particular bathroom was either more reckless or...
Alternative Surfaces & Finding The White Space
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Where: Portland State Library, 1st Floor.
Despite the blank paint, a few different people still found the space to tag. Someone else did not like what they wrote or that they wrote anything and by trying to cross out their tag, inadvertently contributed to the vandalism in efforts to destroy the content.
Where: Portland State Library, 1st floor.
One way to prevent vandalism on bathroom...
Jesus Christ, you saved my life (not yours)
Where: Park Blocks (above) 1st Floor women’s bathroom of Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State (below)
Text: “Jesus Christ, you saved my life. My hope is that someone else experiences your love too.”
One of the larger type comments. This is definitely an exaltation, a spiritual rejoicing and prayer.
Photo: Name unknown. Person who is a Jew for Jesus who frequents...
I like my ass's big and juicy
Where: Hot Lips Pizza
Date Written and Author unknown.
*** All photos taken May 24th, 2010
A celebration of the female form? Or a demeaning objectification of it? No responses that might have been written did not survive.
When Nobody’s Watching: An Expose of Anonymous...
The idea for this exhibition came from three months of attendance at the University of Washington in the College of the Built Environment. When using the bathroom, it was impossible not to notice the scribbles on the inside of bathroom stalls. In reflection, I also noticed that there was little to no writing on any surface that was not an inside of a stall. All kinds of things were...
Tumblr Glitch
It ate all of what I put under a read more cut when I tried to post my essay. I have therefore posted the same to my Livejournal since I’m more experienced with its format. Here it is in full.
-greg
Joyous Lakes
Here’s another chapter in my Exploded Museum project, Velo City PDX.
And here’s my essay on the project-
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Velo City PDX
In this riff on the Exploded Museum meme I chose to focus on Portland, Oregon’s vast network of car-free roads for bike and other non motorized travel. Velo is the French word for bicycle and the juxtaposition of the English spelling of city combines to...
Good Luck on Last Project!!
Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to do 2 things by writing this post.
1) Wish everyone luck in their last weeks of school
2) Test to see if this posting thing works for me (hee thanks)
- Dahlia
Ephemeral Museum: Velo City
Sorry I’ve been out of it. I crashed on the Esplanade when my front wheel came off. This has been one very visceral Mercury retrograde. Maybe it’s cause it’s in Taurus.
I rode to the confluence at Kelly Point Park again today with my friend Joseph. I forgot my camera so the only ephemera of this museum trip are this blog post and my memories.
The expanse of water and trees...
The Role of the Artist
After reading Hoffman’s take on whether an artist should curate the next Documenta, I believe that there is no reason why one couldn’t. I personally appreciate the way Hoffman pointed out many other people with certain careers and fields of study that become successful with a different career entirely. I believe that just because a person has spent their life on one thing, they can...
April 2010
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Survey Questions
As the main way in and out of the contemporary wing seems to be the underground passage, I think it would be good to hand out surveys there as people leave the wing and then collect them at the exits. Surveys could also be available at the exit.
In my experience, it’s easier to quantify the information received in a survey if questions are multiple choice rather than fill in the blank. I...
Museum
The museum creates an alternate reality where a human can imagine that nothing changes, the world stops and decay is nowhere to be found. It’s a place to commune with the dead, to be dead for a time. I’ve got no problem with that it’s just that I think the graveyard is more honest and the library more useful. I don’t care enough about the art museum, especially it’s...
Survey
I think that we should conduct the survery at the main exits before the people leave. Here are some basic questions I think the survey should include:
Age, Member/Non-Member/First Time Visitor.
1. How long did you stay in the contemporary wing?
2. If you chose not to stay long in the contemporary wing, why was this?
3. Do you think the contemporary wing could use more seating?
4. Do you think...
Exploded Museum Continued
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A note from the Portland Art Museum
Dear class,
For our survey project for the Portland Art Museum I was sent a message that we keep in mind the following details:
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday is that we will expect that first draft of the survey to include a sample introduction that informs visitors that your students go to PSU and that they do not work for the Museum, but do have the Museum’s permission to do the...
Museum 2.0 and the Emancipated Spectator
I really enjoyed the Museum 2.0 piece, I think that many museums need to move away from hosting the typical exhibits to hosting more hands on and user interactive exhibits. I feel that in today’s world more and more people are looking to evolve from the typical, I think that an exhibit based on participation is a great art. Force people to use their creative minds, force them to meet new...
Emancipated Spectator and Museum 2.0
The first reading was a lot to digest, a little bit too much for me to be quite honest. My first overall response was slightly offensive. His negative appeal for the so called “emancipated spectator” is unjustified in my opinion. Art, or theatre is subject to what the artist or creator wants it to be. I do believe that spectators can be what they want to be, an ignorant waiting to...
ceci n'est pas l'internet
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. Claes Oldenburg
On Rancière
The Rancière reading this week was terrific. I wish I had read it earlier so I could draft something more substantial. Alas, for now, some quick thoughts will have to suffice.
Rancière’s lecture is rooted in Continental philosophy, and I am hardly well-versed enough to discern whether his ideas are sound. From my own education in philosophy, however, Rancière seems to me unoriginal, albeit,...
The emancipated specatator
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WatchSome video from today’s experiment in Ephemeral Museum.- Greg
Exploded Museum- Velo City PDX →
Emancipation Continued
Now that I got that out of the way there’s enough clarity to form some responses to what I read in the Emancipated Spectator. I think I’m in accord with what the author is saying, but I only have a minor in French so French authors still throw me for a loop even when they’re translated into English:
The object is not to turn spectators into actors, but to recognize that...
Emancipation
I turn my academically trained sword of critique on the institution itself: there is a such thing as too many concepts to digest. Sure, words are only words, but what is a word? Like music written in notation or existing as data on a storage medium such as vinyl, magnetic tape, or binary code it’s only abstract and pure, in isolation from all other things until a sentient being decodes the...
Further thoughts
Barfing up something I read in an article for another class anyway-
“In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a writer of painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. Thanks to them, the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is very important....
The role of the Artist
The role of the artist is to express some aspect of their own internal dialogue in a creative way. Art is a reflection of culture and functions to connect the internal mind with the external world. The degree of control an artist maintains after the work is finished seems more an issue of context, and the individual desire to be involved at the directorial level. To ask if an artist should be...
Art ist Roles
I don’t know what the artist’s role is. In America’s consumer religion the artist creates objects of desire that are stuffed into the category of mere entertainment and enable a section of the population to make a living and keep the Man from kicking them out of their houses and stuff like that. This usually shakes out to wage slavery of one sort or another, subsidizing the...
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What is the role of the artist?
To simply answer this question, the role of the artist is to engage an audience in the expression of a concept. Jens Hoffmann’s article provides some insight to real examples of people wearing different hats; changing professions or taking their profession in a different direction. Hoffmann refers to these examples as “ones with historical precedent.” The people in these examples can be seen...
Role of the Artist
The role of the artist is subjective to what you define as artist, or art for that matter. Speaking in more technical terms however, we come to the conclusion with the obvious answer that the artist is there to simply produce art pieces. However when looking through the walls of a museum, what influence do artists have on the overall layout, staff, lighting, other art pieces near by, etc? In my...