OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF THE ART

21. decembra 2009, 16:06

Vessel performs Transfix at Sunset Point Directed by Rachel Bowditch
Photo by Bruce Bowditch 2007

On January 9, 2010, Vessel will perform Transfix on the Arizona Canal in downtown Scottsdale.
Part of an on-going, interactive, silent performance that transforms urban architecture into a poetic theatrical landscape, this manifestation of Transfix will interface with the art of canal maintenance.

Scottsdale Public Art is seeking volunteers to join Vessel for this one-time-only performance.

INTERESTED? Contact KirstinV@sccarts.org

Basic Performance Details

This performance is part of Rachel Bowditch’s Transfix series

We are looking for up to 30 performers to work with Rachel and her group, Vessel

The performance will highlight part of a regular maintenance event in one of the Valley's working canals, taking place during the dry-up of a section of the Arizona Canal at Scottsdale’s downtown waterfront.

During the performance, SRP will be collecting the white amur fish that live in the canals to keep them clean, relocating the fish to a different section of the canal in preparation for the dry-up.

Volunteer performers do not need a formal dance background, but some level of physical fitness and mental focus is necessary—essentially, we need people who have the stamina to move in a slow and controlled way for up to two hours.

This project will be unique and fun for anyone in addition to being something performers could add to their CV or resume.

White make-up and costumes will be provided.

Time commitment needed to participate

January 8th= rehearsal on the canal bank in DT Scottsdale from 4-6pm

January 9th= exact performance time is still being confirmed, but it would be best to be available from 9am-3pm to allow time to get into costume as a group. The performance itself will last no more than 2 hours.

Kana Tanaka's Spirit of Camelback SCPA Installation Complete

9. októbra 2009, 13:33

Kana Tanaka's Spirit of Camelback lights up the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts (SCPA) has just passed its thirty-year mark and is currently in the stages of a thorough renovation. Built in 1976, its large scale and open spaces garnered community-wide support for the Arts and it remains Scottsdale’s main cultural facility. This renovation provided an opportunity to create a focal point in the open spaces of the atrium.

After consultation with the Public Art staff, the design team, the SCPA staff, stakeholders and the City, the artist chose the curved wall above the future café near the north civic center entry as her canvas. A constellation of 120 hand-sculpted long glass stems pierce the wall and draw light from electric illuminators behind to create an elegant glow in the organic crown .The stems differ in length sporadically bending in different directions while varying hues from white to dark amber create crescendos within the artwork.

Artist Kana Tanaka shapes one of the glass bulbs

Completed glass bulbs ready to be packaged and shipped

Kana organizes each stem according to shape a size before deciding where to place them along the curved wall in the atrium

Each glass stem is marked with a specific number linking the orb to a corresponding electric illuminator behind the wall

Inspiration for the artist's design came from Scottsdale landmark, Camelback Mountain, which the artist climbed in order to capture a greater vision of the city. The glass stems of Spirit of Camelback form the ridge line of the Mountain. Varying stem lengths match the change in elevation across the ridge which are enunciated through an assortment of warm colors.

Diifferent colors represent various elevations across the ridge line of Camelback Mountain

About the Artist

San Francisco based artist Kana Tanaka works in glass, a material she finds “shifts awareness within an instant” and best conveys the perceptions of light. Kana seeks to create artworks that are situations, by means of amplification, division, exaggeration and distortion that surround the audience and “affect their senses directly and broadly." Glass is the net to gather light and share it with others.

Images by Scottsdale Public Art

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"Hindsight is Always 20/20" Installation Update

2. októbra 2009, 14:32

Images by Kris Sanford

Crates containing the newest Scottsdale Public Art temporary installation arrive in Civic Center.

With the re-opening of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, the Canadian debut of David Therrien’s Beautiful Light: FOUR LETTER WORD MACHINE, and the installations of Kana Tanaka’s Spirit of Camelback in the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts Atrium and Anna Skibska’s Golden Alchemy at Appaloosa Library, Scottsdale Public Art has been busy. This week we have another fantastic piece being installed in the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall and we’re excited to bring you images of the work in progress.

Eyecharts for examining national vision, artist R. Luke DuBois’ piece awaits installation.

Hindsight is Always 20/20 is the newest installation of temporary artwork from Scottsdale Public Art. New York based artist R. Luke DuBois has taken the State of the Union addresses from each president from George Washington to George W. Bush and, using statistical analysis, arranged the individual words of these texts according to recurrence, from most frequent to least.

Each light box provides, at a glance, the characteristic words of each president’s term and, when taken together, an over-arching image of our political history.

Presenting the data in the familiar format of a “Snellen style” eye chart, DuBois has created a compelling visual metaphor for our nation’s collective vision. Each chart proves to be an accessible and visually engaging lens with which to examine the key words of events throughout our history and the rhetoric unique to each president.

Each light box is approximately 3 feet by 4 feet. Arranged chronologically, the individual charts are being installed alongside other Scottsdale Public Art pieces in the centrally-located Civic Center Mall.

The 43 light boxes, with one for each president, will be on display in the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall from October 4th to November 2nd. Take some time to meander through the installation and learn something about our collective political history.

R. Luke DuBois’ installation makes a bold statement on the Civic Center Mall. In the evenings, the light boxes will be illuminated, making this exhibition a dramatic sight anytime of the day.

For more information on this and other Scottsdale Public Art projects, please see:

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