Get Your “Creative Fix” On, by Sheryl Oring
Last year, core.form-ula had the great opportunity to collaborate with artist Sheryl Oring, by designing an installation for her “I Wish to Say” exhibit in Chicago. We will showcase this effort in the weeks to come. We now have that great opportunity to collaborate again, but this time, Sheryl is opening this opportunity to all individuals who are interested in participating. Please take a moment and understand how you can get your “Creative Fix” on.
In her new project, “Creative Fix,” artist Sheryl Oring asks other artists and creative thinkers what they would do to fix the country if they could do anything at all. Starting at galleries in California, Oring is inviting artists of all types – writers, musicians, visual artists, architects etc. – to participate.
Oring will make one-minute videos of participants’ answers and post them on YouTube. By doing so, Oring hopes to bring artists into the contemporary political debate. “Creative Fix” has the potential to expand to an international scale as viewers respond to the videos posted on Oring’sYouTube channel: www.youtube.com/iwishtosay. The final shape of the participatory project depends on the creativity of respondents.
Here are some exmaples:
Creative Fix: Janice Wu
The idea for “Creative Fix” grew out of Oring’s most recent past work, a public art project called “I Wish to Say.” For this, Oring set out to gather public opinion during the 2008 presidential election by setting up an “office” – complete with a manual typewriter – in public places and inviting passersby to dictate postcards to the next president. Many people spoke out for change, and Oring feels the challenges facing this nation demand attention from more than just the usual suspects. Artists, she said, can offer a fresh perspective on many of the most pressing issues of the day.
In other parts of the world, artists play a legitimate role in politics and political debate,” said Oring, citing examples such as Václav Havel, the playwright who became president of Czechoslovakia, and the German political system, in which the arts play a significant role in local and national political institutions. “In the U.S., however, artists are seen as suspect. I’d like to do one small thing to change this and bring more creativity to American politics.”
Oring, 43, recently moved from Brooklyn to San Diego to pursue an Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. She is studying with architect Teddy Cruz, who is spearheading the university’s new “public culture” focus in the Visual Arts Department.
“At a time when everyone is searching for solutions to the current crisis, hopefully, these solutions are not just understood as an excuse to maintain a ‘lifestyle’, the models of urban growth that has become unsustainable,” Cruz said. “So, more than solutions, we should be searching for new types of ‘arrangements’ to alter the way we have been selfishly consuming our economic and natural resources.”
The following events are planned for May 2 in San Diego and May 30 in Los Angeles – anyone who would like to record a segment is invited to stop by:
Agitprop
May 2, 3 to 6 p.m.,
2837 University Avenue (entrance on Utah), North Park, San Diego
compactspace
May 30, 3 to 7 p.m.
105 E 6th Street, Los Angeles
other links:
http://www.iwishtosay.org
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