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So Much Happened Here

8/27/2009

 
aug 27 2009
Wrap-up of our summer interventions:
Reading In Public (RIP)
Reading In Public (RIP!) was formed to celebrate the written word by way of community performance in public spaces.

– We were mobile. We read. We laughed. We smiled. We determined reading is not a lost Art.

www.readinginpublic.com

Flash Mobs (more to come!)
Weddings, and donuts, and reading – oh my!
http://nothinghappenedhere.com/happy-donut-retro-formal

Installations
High-heeled Alley
http://nothinghappenedhere.com/go-see-bubblegum-alley

Public Displays of Affection
Portable Dance Assembly
– Taking choreography into public spaces, Drew Silvaggio and the dancers of the Civic ballet of San Luis Obispo hit the streets and brought a series of performance pieces in unexpected places in downtown San Luis Obispo.

and others:
Guerrilla Art show

More Flash Mobs:

Press:
Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/reading-in-public.html

Apartment Therapy’s re_nest
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/books-guides-resources/reading-in-public-092560

Gapers Block, Chicago
http://gapersblock.com/bookclub/2009/08/25/reading_in_public/

Situational Curation:

We formed our own collective of ephemeral art interventionists.

http://nothinghappenedhere.com/

– Nothing Happened Here is a full-circle gesture to place art in an entirely unusual and unexpected context. All we leave behind are smiles.

THANK you for a phenomenal summer.

non-pursuit of unlively things

8/24/2009

 
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jul 24 2009
Nothing will Happen There (Spencer’s)
Why?
ASCAP (google them) requirements have led us to cancel our Live! on Aisle 9 intervention.

All of us have so much admiration and respect for musicians and composers and our intention has always been to do right by the arts community, yet ASCAP’s fees and regulations were insurmountable for a fledgling art collective.
Don’t fret. We have many other art interventions afloat and more to be posted soon.

Thanks to all the musicians and artists who joined up!
and to Spencer’s ( who have been wonderful and open to our experience economy event.)

Los Angeles Times’ Jacket Copy article about RIP

8/24/2009

 
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aug 24 2009
Read the article here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/reading-in-public.html

Thanks Carolyn!

Credits:
:: Screen shot: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy

:: Our reading parking space is an homage to the ReBar Groups PARK(ing) project

http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/

:: Readers in photo: Mauria Lynn Betts and Heidi Harmon, photo/Catherine Trujillo

Go See Bubblegum Alley

8/23/2009

 
aug 23 2009

Shoe intervention. 

Photos: Catherine Trujillo






Did you see our PDA?

8/23/2009

 
aug 23 2009
They were portable. 
They danced. 
We assembled.See where we were: http://bit.ly/qtsai

Call for Audience: PDA

8/21/2009

 
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aug 21 2009

Portable Dance Assembly (PDA) - our interpretation of public displays of affection!
WHAT:
Taking choreography into public spaces, Drew Silvaggio and the dancers of the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo are hitting the streets to bring you a series of performance pieces in unexpected places in downtown San Luis Obispo. WHEN:
Saturday Aug. 22, 2009

MAP:
http://bit.ly/qtsai


What is Art?

8/21/2009

 
aug 21 2009
Hello friends,
We want to throw this out into the art universe to see if it can be answered.
What is Art?
We have had interesting responses to some of our projects already and I am hoping you can help with another, even if you don’t have any artistic abilities…we still want your opinion. (sketch, paint, photograph, compose, write, whatever!)

Help us answer:
http://slo.craigslist.org/ats/1326914310.html

(deadline: Monday Aug. 24, 2009)

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Apartment Therapy’s re-nest loves Reading in Public

8/20/2009

 
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aug 20 2009
Apartment Therapy’s re-nest posted about our Reading in Public chair 
and project. 
Check us out: 
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/books-guides-resources/reading-in-public-092560 
 
Thank you re-nest! 
 
More about RIP: 
www.readinginpublic.com

Call for Artists/interventionists: Wedding Flash Mob

8/18/2009

 
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aug 18 2009
What: 
Interventionists needed for a Wedding-themed Flash Mob. 

:: Minister or Officiant (or someone willing to dress as one)
:: Groomsmen (come on, dust off that tuxedo!)
:: Wedding guests (bring a wrapped fake “wedding present”)


When:
Thursday Aug 27 (around 6:15pm-7:15pm)


Email 
aschwellenbach@newtimesslo.com for more info

See the Reading Chair at Steynberg Gallery in SLO

8/17/2009

 
aug 17 2009

Sit, read and sip on a cup of tea or coffee!


The Steynberg Gallery is hosting the Reading in Public chair designed by Chris Allen.
www.steynberggallery.com
1531 Monterey St
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-2927
(805) 547-0278


Snap a photo reading!
There is a disposable camera in the RIP chair’s ottoman, or you can e-mail a photo from your own camera or cellphone to:
info@readinginpublic.com.


Do drop us a note and let us know what you think of the project,
E-mail: info@readinginpublic.com


THANK you readers, viewers and Peter Steynberg!


About:
Reading In Public (RIP!) was formed to celebrate the written word by way of community performance in public spaces. The project began as a response to the shifting landscape in publishing, and the realization that more and more of us are writing in public, as bloggers and tweeters, for instance.


Similarly, we seek to broadcast words in public, through the simple act of contemplative reading on a noisy street corner, or as performance, with readers directly engaging onlookers. On Saturday, August 1st, we held a one day event in San Luis Obispo, California, the first of many that we hope to do. We wheeled this, our Reading Chair, which was specially designed for the occasion, to various downtown locations, where assigned readers took turns sitting and reading. Our readers were people of all ages and walks of life who shared a passion not only for words, but for story telling. Some of them submitted an online application, and some were invited to read. They chose their own reading materials and crafted their own performances.


Details of the project are at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/readinginpublic/
&
Flickr set about the chair

&
Our Website:
www.readinginpublic.com


images courtesy of: www.myspace.com/steynberggallery 

Happy Donut Formal

8/12/2009

 
Aug 12 2009
Our Sunshine Donuts retro “Flash Mob” resulted in irrelevant (or was it irreverent?) 1950s donut glamor. 

In the end, there were lots and lots of smiles. 

Thank you to our donutters
Mignon, Cate, Cruz, Vanessa, Amy, Ashley, Pedro, Sara, Lupe and Hannah!

Plates by Mignon Khargie

Happy Booksters Everywhere

8/11/2009

 
aug 11 2009
Thank you booksters!

RIP is global:

Photos courtesy Cate Trujillo and saraewood

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