New Street Agenda
@ International Art Drops
Chicago Artist Invades NW France
Opening Wednesday, May 8th, from 6am - 6PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
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New Street Agenda
The project New Street Agenda organized by Chester Alamo & Costello is the third in a series of investigations that test one’s understanding of street-level communication and how a simple gesture sometimes functions in today’s rapidly changing world. A series of 7 archival prints have been produced and will be placed in the public domain (e.g., city parks) for the casual passerby to find, keep and respond to. These prints are accompanied with a letter and information on the project written in the predominant local language of the city visited. Each city receives 7 different prints from the editions.
Spring 2013 Cities:
City 28 – 8 May 2013, Paris, France
City 29 – 12 May 2013, Caen, France
City 30 – 13 May 2013, Mount St. Michel, France
City 31 – 15 May 2013, Rouen, France
City 32 – 17 May 2013, Reims, France
Since October 2005, a series of artworks have been produced that use drawings and photographs of street communications and imagery made during previous visits to various cities (e.g., St. Petersburg, Russia; Lugano, Switzerland; Nashville, Tennessee). The completed artworks are now being placed back into the public domain for retrieval and interpretation incities around the globe. The initial prints of New Street Agenda were placed in Rome, Italy in 2007.
In 2013, a new series of archival prints will be used for the new art drops. These renderings were begun during the Searching for Geomantrick project produced in Chicago, 1998.
Chester Alamo & Costello has been producing ephemeral art projects designed to function in non-traditional exhibition settings for over 20 years. In recent time, he has produced the art-drop projects Searching for Geomantrick (20 Chicago Parks, 1998), Appleseed (40 International Cities, 1999-2004), and currently, New Street Agenda (2005-present).
Alamo & Costello’s personal work has been discussed, reviewed and published in National Public Radio’s 848 program,WGN – TV Chicago, Time Out Chicago, MCA Magazine Chicago, Public Art Review, Art Lies Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, the New Art Examiner, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Jettison Magazine, De Telegraaf Amsterdam (NL), Verve Magazine Liverpool (UK), The Herald News, and other publications.
Here is a link to additional material:
http://www.alamo-costello.net/projects2a.html
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