Walk to the Beach – in a city built around the logic of automobility, a small group documents several attempts to walk to Tampa’s last remaining public beach. we rely on instructions from passers-by who struggle to conform their mental map of the city to the possibilities of walking
Development Walk – between the decommissioned train station and newly opened cruise ship terminal, a group encounters cycles of displacement and speculation; the walk relies on directions offered by recently displaced residents and street vendors
common_places, a 24 hour/day access exhibit at the Oliver Gallery, University of South Florida; Free library, reading/copying/scanning stations; sleeping, eating and play areas. Discussions, meetings, video screenings, communal meals, workshops in pirate radio by neuroTransmitter; performance by MPG
Below is a shortlist of public projects organized through the pedagogical and creative research of the Center for Getting Ugly – full ll web archive at www.commonplacesproject.org
2008
How We Walk– yearlong walking/listening project: underground rivers of Tampa, FL ; University of South Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa FL; Sustainability Expo, Sun Dome, Tampa FL
* publication, download here
2006
Plausible Artworlds; Basekamp, – Philadelphia, PA
Walking and Not Walking seminar – Versionfest, Chicago
Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More – Miss Mao, Blacklist Projects – London, UK
Calisthenics for Collaboration, or Exercises for Labor Day*, Studio 27 – San Francisco, CA
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Counter-Cartographies of Playing Nice* – Gymnasium Lab, Tampa FL
2005
“HINTS Riport”, (with HINTS), performance, Ludwig Muzeum – Budapest, Hungary
Common Places: an itinerant archive and social experiment, venues: Vector Gallery – Iasi, Romania; Casa Tranzit – Cluj Romania; Dinamo Gallery and AK-57 – Budapest, Hungary; various locations in coastal and central Florida; Oliver Gallery, University of South Florida – Tampa, FL; monthly pirate radio workshops and broadcasts: Tampa, FL