Art Project #14: Artists’ Life in a Northern Eco City
Description: Describe the artists role in a northern eco city with a northern university
Objectives:
* to show an example of how a northern eco city could be run
* to show the role of the artist in such a city
* to explore various aspects of the northern eco city
* to examine economic models for life in a northern eco city
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Posted in 7000 Art Projects, eco city, north, Social Entrepreneurship
Tagged north, utopia, visual art
Art Project #12: Policy Framework for a Political Party
Description: Write a policy paper for a political party, roughly based on the Wildrose Party in Alberta
Objectives:
* to produce some interesting results
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Idea #13:
Name or Rename 7,000 Geographic Features
Description: Name or rename landforms, using a variety of themes or strategies; some or all of the places may be portrayed in various media
Objectives:
* explore our great love for giving names to all sorts of things, and the fact that very few people ever get the privilege of naming geographic features.
* explore society’s tendency to rename things or places differently, according to expediency, political correctness, or incumbent rulers
Project Timing: Conception: 2009 –
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist), Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Posted in 7000 ideas, blog, culture, Ideas, language, social networking
Art Project #11: School’s Out Forever – A Community Cries
Description: Chronicle, document and record the final months of an elementary school’s existence
Objectives:
* to capture the essence of the school in the community context
* attempt to see if it will be possible to get some closure
* explore the nature of the value of the school to a community in a concrete way
* explore the benefits of a community school beyond the traditionally accepted roles
* attempt to influence a reversal of the decision to close the school
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Posted in 7000 Art Projects, Art, Education, Ideas, Montreal, video
Tagged school, school closing
Idea #12:
Create a travelogue of 7,000 walks
Description: Spanning much of the world, and a wide open range of topics, activities and media, documenting a spiritual, personal and terrestrial journey
Objectives:
* create a multimedia documentary about walking
* to consciously and creatively tap into the power of walks
* to promote walking as a responsible and healthy means of transportation
* walking as a clean and healthy activity
* to explore walking’s place as a type of meditation
* to look at life, from relationships to world affairs, from the perspective of a walk
Project Timing: Conception: 2009 – preliminary (tba)
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist), Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Posted in 7000 ideas, blog, photography, Recreation, social networking, travel
Tagged documentary, spirituality, walking
Art Project #10: Multi-Language Blog
Description: Create a blog that uses a different language for each post
Objectives: To create a means of communication that is more open to people of all languages; to see what sorts of results this produces.l
Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)
Link: Babelification
Posted in 7000 Art Projects, blog, social networking
Tagged blog, languages, linguistics
