Danish collaborator Janine Tuchsen visited Detroit in the Spring of 2013 to meet collaborators and investigate possibility of applying her skills and abilities towards the launching of a community land initiative…
Artefacting Public Art + Research Practice
Detroit Initiative - continuation
Workshop with Queens Nepali community
In June of this year I was approached by the New New Yorkers program about helping to design a workshop for a joint event with a local organization: Adhikkar. They were interested in producing an artist-led activity that reflected the local Nepali community’s multi-ethnic character and took into account the organizing efforts of Adhikaar. This is not an easy task.
Citizens VS. Work - the trial
On August 3, 2013 Citizens VS Work, a public trial was held in Cologne Germany. 6 people’s real work cases were presented and the public audience judged work innocent or guilty after deliberating on who and what was guilty - systems, structures and work environments or the individual. The trial aims at producing insight, reflection and understanding of the root causes of work challenges and allow for the development of ideas of amelioration.
Bin Ich Arbeit? Am I Work? - theatre workshop
Am I Work? In a theatrical workshop led by theater director Gregor Leschig, work situations and challenges came out and to the surface through creating and acting out different situations. Pause, review and discussion was used to allow people to think about one’s ethics, consciousness and self can intervene in key moments of work to better one’s conditions. This workshop serves as the beginning of a public outreach to create understandings and cases of work in Citizens VS. Work
The New Akhada
On the day of our envisioning and harvesting event we met quite a few people that we hadn’t interacted with before in Tigra. Events like this are a great way of starting debate and getting like minded people together.
Lake: Ownership to Responsibility?
The program started at 8.30 am in the under-construction community center; a space itself contentious for having been developed through the encroachment and infill of a portion of the lake. Alex escorted groups of locals from the village to the program.
Prospect Without Limit
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The Coming of Money & Real Estate-Gurgaon from the field:
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Slow Down or Turn Around
A small road has rapidly transformed into a national road yet crosswalks, street lights and safety precautions have not been provided. For two years locals have been requesting action with no response.
Residents organize to take matters into their own hands after a child was hit and killed.
Conversation Starters
On the 11th of April, we hosted dinner to mark Alex’s arrival and the beginning of our collaboration. We brought together a group of residents from Gurgaon over a meal inspired by the stories of agriculture in Gurgaon we have been collecting over the last few weeks. Some images and our exciting menu from the event below. Stay tuned for more.
Searching for Ber in the Hot Sun
Ravi’s grandfather is a pioneer of some sorts. Several years ago, a muslim farmer he knew in Delhi encouraged him to start a Ber orchard in Kankrola, a village on the outskirts of Gurgaon, now rapidly being approached by industrialisation. Today the farm stands on 12 acres of land on which grows several varieties of Ber – some trees are over 50 years old – Guava,
Khoj International Arts Association assigns Artefacting to the Negotiating Routes project
Alex White Mazzarella, Namrata Mehta, and Soaib Grewal have been selected for the Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byway IV residency project. Their project, Reconciling Ecologies in the Millenium City, is a collective project aimed at engaging communities to recognize their agricultural ecology and innovate opportunities for its re-inclusion.
The Bloodbank: 28 participants give life
On February 18, the Bloodbank project with partners New York Blood Center, the Lion’s Club of Astoria, and supported in part by No Longer Empty, concluded successfully.
Over 100 people signed up thus far for the Artefacting Blood drive
We took a mural designed from the portrait of an interviewee by team member Iandry Randriamondroso, to a street corner in Hunters Point.
Street Art for our Feb 18 Blood Drive
Over the past two months, Artefacting’s Bloodbank team has been speaking with residents to find out what the lifeblood of the Long Island City community is. They’ve engaged the Long Island City Queens community on the street and video interviewed 32 people on what blood is worth in the Bloodbank incubator space.
Olayami Dables recounts our Artefaciting Detroit project “Spire”
I was asked by Tyree Guyton to assist a team of artist that was coming to Detroit MI, and in exchange they would help with what i needed done at the museum. Tyree said the artists were traveling
Bloodbank: Incubating Community Lifeblood
To Queensboro Plaza passers-by the clock tower gallery space can seem a bit strange; petite women with keen fashion sense operating cherry pickers and power tools and light – boxes…
Artefacting Founder Alex White Mazzarella presents at Architecture Boston Expo
Artefacting presents as part of a multidisciplinary panel: Design.Action.Social Innovation.
The creative process can propel designers in many directions, including being a catalyst for social change. As creative problem solvers, we have the ability and the responsibility to move beyond the precept that design results in a built solution towards that of designer as social innovator. This workshop will bring together professionals who apply design thinking in ways that challenge the status quo. Considering a variety of experiences and attitudes, we will examine this idea of designer as social innovator. Through the panelists stories, lessons and strategies this workshop seeks to inspire engaged creative design for social action and innovation.
Interviews Underway: Whats Your Blood Worth?
Interviews are currently being conducted in our Clocktower incubator space and willing participants can express their thoughts and insights on blood and their experiences blood giving.
Artefacting’s Bloodbank OPENS
Artefacting has opened the “Bloodbank” incubator space at the Queensboro Plaza clocktower building and is engaging the community through walk in visits… open daily to the public ahead of exhibition partner No Longer Empty’s “How Much Do I Owe You” exhibition opening on Dec 12.
Video of Artefacting presented at India Design Forum now online
“Artefacting presented projects from Mumbai and New York City as part of the Urban Responses panel discussion at the India Design Forum in Delhi in March of 2012.
“It Never Happened” - a short film from Global Village 2012, Kohima Nagaland
“It Never Happened”, a Global Village 2012 film shot, edited and produced by the Kohima Nagaland based Headhunters film outfit.
Artefacting’s Global Village Magazine online
The Global Village magazine was a non-profit, crowdsourced magazine created by the Artefacting’s Global Village Project, based in Northeast India, in collaboration with local partners in Nagaland and Assam. Artefacting’s resident journalist and editor, Christine Mehta, headed the project.
A vegetable garden sprouts from Willets Point’s El Estadio
Going back to Willets Point after returning from another project in India, almost 10 months after the tournament, I was delighted to see that the stadium had continued to evolve into a space being used more diversely for the bonding and enjoyment of the worker community.
