G.P.S.

Balto East Bike Tour Rolling Success

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:28:00 +0000

With seventeen participants discovering invisible sites with abandon, the Balto East Bike Tour proved to be a rolling success. In a spirit of radical pedestrianism, we stuck together for more than an hour and a half and over four plus miles while navigating traffic conditions from serene to challenging. Thanks for everyone who participated for your bravery and endurance, and asking thoughtful questions and offering helpful commentary. From the Cork Seer Crossing and Greektown Alleydrift to Expressways Amalgamated and the O'Donnell St Bohverlook, we explored an array of public spaces while learning from our everyday surroundings and each other. Special thanks to The Creative Alliance for hosting the event and Liz Donadio for documenting the ride.

Click here for the full post.

Bike Tour Oct 5 & Emerge Oct 3-6

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Two awesome New Public Events on the same weekend!

New Public Sites - Balto East Bike Tour

Saturday, October 5th | 1-2:30 p.m.
the Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore MD 21224
Adv. Mbr. $15, Adv. Reg. $20 / Day-of Mbr. $20, Reg. $25

Travel Eastern Ave, O'Donnell St America!

Take a guided bicycle tour from Highlandtown to the Travel America Center and back, that will explore how the urban design of "invisible" public spaces affects our everyday experiences of eastern Baltimore. The tour will investigate the architectural dynamics and social conditions that make places such as the Eastern Avenue Underpass and the O’Donnell Street Interchange as mundane and confounding as they are fascinating and beautiful. A version of this tour was featured on the podcast 99% Invisible. All participants will receive a limited edition, signed 11" x 17" tour map.

Click here to download the official press release. Check newpublicsites.org/baltoeast for updates. Meet at the Creative Alliance and bring your bicycle, helmet and radical pedestrianism! Space is limited so reserve your tickets today.

Click here to register for the tour at the Creative Alliance website or call 410-276-1651.

Shards of Site at (e)merge art fair

October 3-6

Capital Skyline Hotel
10 “I” Street, SWWashington D.C., DC 20024
www.emergeartfair.com

Prints, poster-paintings, shards and more!

Join myself and the other print/collect artists as we travel our show down to DC for the (e)merge art fair at the Capital Skyline Hotel October 3-6. Check out (e)merge art fair website to find out more about international roster of 80 exhibitors presenting works by 150 artists from 30 countries. In addition to my Shards of Site print, I will also be showing a new series of New Public Sites "poster-paintings" inspired by Ed Rushca's typographic works. Copies of my book, The Typology of New Public Sites, will be available for $10, plus free shredded pavement souvenirs serving as mementos of place (certificate of authenticity included).

OPENING PREVIEW
Thursday, October 3: 7pm - 9pm: Preview Party 9pm - 11pm
FAIR HOURS
Friday, October 4: 12pm – 7pm / Saturday, October 5: 12pm – 7pm / Sunday, October 6: 12pm – 5pm
ADMISSION
Opening Preview: $35 advance purchase, $50 at the door
Daily: $15 ($10 Seniors and Students w/ valid ID)

Print/Collect NPS Shards

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:07:00 +0000

PRINT/COLLECT

Exhibition July 13-28th
Current Gallery
421 N Howard St Baltimore, MD 21201
Opening Reception: July 13th 8-11pm

Check out the collectable New Public Sites print, Shards of Site, at the Print/Collect opening on Saturday, July 13, from 8-11pm at Current Space in Baltimore.

Print/Collect is an independent publication that showcases eight artists working in Baltimore by circulating an affordable portfolio of limited edition prints. Each portfolio within the edition of 125 is available for $200 and includes eight 16"x20" prints plus a 64 page catalog. The catalog features interviews and images that provide background information on the participating artists. Print/Collect is curated by curated by Jennifer Coster and features artists Colin Benjamin, John Bohl, James Bouché, Cindy Cheng, Graham Coreil-Allen, Chris Day, Andrew Liang and Molly Colleen O’Connell.

The Shards of Site poster is the first ever deliberately salable New Public Sites print and features an array of poetically titled urban artifacts collected from the streets of Baltimore. The shredded pavement souvenirs will serve as momentos of place as they gracefully hang on the walls of your urban abode. Click here to purchasing your copy of the inaugural Print/Collect portfolio and catalog.

Click here to download the official press release and learn more about the project and other artists at printcollect.net/wp.

Spontaneous Interventions makes US debut

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:08:00 +0000

“Spontaneous Interventions“, the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, has made its U.S. debut at the Chicago Cultural Center where it is currently representing a spirited movement for improving cities through DIY innovation and playful direct action. The original exhibition received over 178,000 visitors in Venice, and earned a Special Mention from the Golden Lion jury, the first time the United States has been honored in the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Now the spirit of direct action to improve cities embodies by New Public Sites and other project carries on in Chicago. Learn more about Spontaneous Interventions and New Public Sites at www.spontaneousinterventions.org and newpublicsites.org. Click here for Opening Week Programs.

MAY 24 - SEP 1, 2013
Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Ave. Galleries
78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602

Station North Ave Drift

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:36:00 +0000

Station North Avenue walking tours a drifting success

After gathering around the kiosk and handing out maps, we drifted through through the New Public Sites of North Avenue. Among four varied tours, one night, three day, three warm, one cold, we faced a perpendicular extreme, indulged retail adventure and climbed an enlightened elevation - all in the name of radical pedestrianism. Full project page here, more pictures at newpublicsites.org.

New Public Sites - Station North Avenue

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:24:00 +0000

Join us for New Public Sites - Station North Avenue, a series of free walking tours through seven collections of invisible sites and overlooked architectural and psychic features along North Avenue in the Station North Arts District.

New Public Sites - Station North Avenue

Organized in conjunction with the Invited: Celebration Station
October 21 - November 11, 2012
MICA Studio Center Gallery
Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy galleries
113 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201

Reception and Graduate Studio Center Open House
Sunday, October 21, 2–4 pm, followed by walking tour at 4pm

New Public Sites - Station North Avenue is free walking tour through seven collections of invisible sites and overlooked architectural and psychic features along North Avenue between Greenmount and Howard Streets. Using terms and ideas from the New Public Sites field guide and free walking tour maps available in the gallery, participants are invited to drift through Station North, identify different types of “invisible” public spaces and experiences, and then upload them to newpublicsites.org. Along the way, the tour features places such as a billboard-framed vacant lot identified as "Clear Channel Commons", North Avenue's impressive median strip, which is likened to "Barrier Islands", plus a selection of Anniversary List businesses. The ongoing New Public Sites project pushes pedestrian agency, interprets aspects of the everyday and investigates the negotiable nature of the built environment.

WALK TOUR SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 21 – 4pm
Saturday, October 27, 3pm
Saturday, November 3, 3pm

All walking tours are free and open to the public
Meet at the New Public Sites Kiosk
MICA Graduate Studio Center
113 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201

Download the free map, interact and find out more at newpublicsites.org/station-north-avenue.

Spontaneous Interventions

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:05:00 +0000

"Spontaneous Interventions", the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, represents a spirited movement for improving cities through DIY innovation and playful direct action. Walking through Venice's tree-shaded Giardini during the preview of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the first thing I saw as I approached the American pavilion was a huge projection of my face framed by the Palladian building's central entry way. I couldn't help but laugh - how did my work as a radically pedestrian, New Public Sites tour guide end up here, in Venice, as one of many incredible projects representing of the United States? The dérive will always take us to unexpected places...

Names vs The Nothing: NPS on 99% Invisible

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:45:00 +0000

99% Invisible premieres episode on New Public Sites

A "tiny" radio show about design and architecture
explores the Neverending Story of naming
invisible sites in everyday public space.

Click here to listen to, "Names vs The Nothing", 99% Invisible's latest story by
producer Sam Greenspan featuring Graham Coreil-Allen on New Public Sites.

Just beyond east Baltimore's resounding I-95 - O'Donnell Street overpass lies a sprawling estate of weathered travel centers, including an unexpectedly beautiful grassy hill turned Elightened Elevation that serves as an unglamorous gateway for Baltimore's Chinatown bus travelers. 99% Invisible radio show producer Sam Greenspan and I recently rode our bikes to this marginal zone and explored some of its invisbile sites and overlooked features. Created with help from the show's host Roman Mars, "Names vs The Nothing" uses the storyline from 1984 epic fantasty film, The Neverending Story as a metaphor for the New Public Sites investigation. Go to 99percentinvisible.org to listen to the episode online, download the mp3 and subscribe to the podcast with iTunes.

If you like 99% Invisible and want to hear more independently produced public radio, please considering donating the the 99% Invisible Kickstarter. The campaign only has three days left to reach its goal of 5000 supporters!

New Public Sites in the Venice Architecture Biennale and Online

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:05:00 +0000

Artist Graham Coreil-Allen celebrates the inclusion of his New Public Sites interventionist walking tours project in the Venice Architecture Biennale with the rollout of a new platform for online participation: newpublicsites.org.

New Public Sites in Spontaneous Interventions
U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale
August 29 - November 25, 2012
New Public Sites’ new online platform: newpublicsites.org

[Baltimore, MD - June 2012] -- Situated within disparate zones of overlap, contradiction, ambiguity and interstice, the ongoing New Public Sites project consists of playful walking tours, radical maps and poetic typology that investigate the ways in which invisible sites and overlooked features exist within our everyday environment. The New Public Sites walking tours will be included in Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale. Organized by commissioner and curator Cathy Lang Ho of the Institute for Urban Design, with Ned Cramer and David van der Leer, the exhibition features an array of direct action strategies for improving the urban public realm, represented through a system of interactive hanging banners and pedestrian installations. More details to follow on New Public Sites walking tours in Venice later this summer.

From Venice to virtual, New Public Sites is expanding radical pedestrian discourse both internationally and online. Created in collaboration with artist, curator and designer Tobey Albright, newpublicsites.org is the living collection of recent and on-going New Public Sites investigations into our everyday public spaces. The online typology organizes these liminal public spaces into a system of sites, components, qualities and concepts, indexed and described through maps, terms, definitions, images and videos. The scalable website can be viewed both on computers and smart devices. New Public Sites walking tour participants and the public at large are invited to explore the collection, comment on types and upload their own sites and definitions to the growing interactive map.

More info at:
http://newpublicsites.org/
http://spontaneousinterventions.com/

Visionary Crosswalks / Transmodern / May 18 & 19

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:29:00 +0000

Visionary Crosswalks

Transmodern Festival

Alley-OOOPs!

Tyson Alley and Mulbery Street

7:30pm-12am, May 18 & 19, 2012

Join me for a night of radical pedestrianism through Visionary Crosswalks in the Alley OOOPs! show at this year's Transmodern Festival. Visionary Crosswalks is a direct action crosswalk tracing the casual path that jaywalkers regularly take when crossing Mulberry Street while walking down Tyson Alley along in the west side of downtown Baltimore. Colorful adhesive tape will alert motorists to the festival goers parading pathway as they walk to the D:Center at Maryland Art Place from Current Gallery and back. Serving as a voluntary crossing guard, complete with hand-made uniform, I will assist pedestrians as they enjoy their downtown art drift.

View Larger Map
Transmodern 2012 info here.

The Forthcoming Reality of Holly Whyte Way

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:27:00 +0000

Image courtesy of NYC DOT via The New York Observer.

Only six months after the Arcade Parade, Holly Whyte Way is officially becoming a reality! This week the New York City DOT announced its proposal to connect the privately-owned public plazas and arcades that run from 51st to 57th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Since then, Community Board 5' Transportation Committee has approved the plans for crosswalks, stop signs and warning markers that will alert motorists to yield to pedestrians moving along what will be soon be officially known as 6½ Avenue. Needless to say, Friends of Privately Owned Public Space is celebrating. Special thanks to Matt Chaban for his wall-to wall coverage of the development. More details below...

Meet Me on 6½th Avenue: DOT Planning Public Promenade Through Middle of Midtown Towers / Matt Chaban, NY Observer, 3.26.12

Paving the Way for 6½th Avenue: Midtown Community Board Committee Gives Pedestrian Plan Unanimous Support / Matt Chaban, NY Observer, 3.26.12
For Walkers, a Sixth-and-a-Half Ave. May Take Shape / Matt Flegenheimer, The New York Times, 3.29.12
Plans Unveiled for a Secret Boulevard in Midtown Manhattan / Kelly Chan, Achitizer Blog, 3.29.12

2011 Updates to grahamprojects.com

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:45:00 +0000

Website updates - 2011 projects added! Check em out:

New project galleries:

The Arcade Parade, openhousenewyork
Vistaflow Tower, Tinges Commons
New Public Sites - Drifting Monument, Pedestrian Service Exquisite / Transmodern
Urban Surface Map - campcamp Tapeway + Tri-Flags, Current Space / Transmodern
New Public Sites - Arlington Drift, Arlington Art Center

You can also now "+1", "email", "like", "tweet" and "post" grahamprojects.com. In addition, I have added a subscription box for my email list. Sign up! See the social media section on lower left of the homepage.

Infinite freedom for the holiday season!

- Graham

Arcade Parade a Wandering Success

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:49:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Arcade Parade on Saturday, October 15th. Together the F-POPS team, Hungry March Band, and over one hundred people festively wandered through Midtown's largest network of privately owned public spaces. Under LeWitt stripes waving, the Arcade Parade fomented the Social Life of these Small Urban Spaces through festive music, critical observation, site specific play and interventionist sound. Through blocks played and plazas performed, Holly Whyte Way is cemented as path and place.

More pictures and info about Friends of Privately Owned Public Space at f-pops.org.

Special thanks to the 27 backers on kickstarter and the many other voluneteers and supporters who helped make the Arcade Parade possible.

Organizers: Brian Nesin, David Gryder, Graham Coreil-Allen, Christina Kelly, Elena Volkova. Performers: The Hungry March Band, the children on scooters, Simone and Claire Ghetti

The Arcade Parade / 10.15.11 / 11am / Midtown-NYC [updated]

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Join us on Facebook and visit our KICKSTARTER page to help make this parade a success!

Download your own Holly Whyte Way SELF-GUIDED TOUR here.

Arcade Parade
Holly Whyte Way Dedication
October 15, 2011, 11am-12:30pm
Starting at AXA Plaza
151 West 51st St, New York, 10019

Join us in Midtown New York on Saturday, October 15th for the Arcade Parade, a free pedestrian tour through a series of little-known shortcuts composed of privately owned public spaces. Between 51st and 57th Streets and 6th and 7th Avenues, there exists an exciting, if unfinished, network of privately owned public spaces (POPS) provided by developers in exchange for additional floor area within the buildings above. Friends of Privately Owned Public Space (F-POPS), in conjunction with the West 54th/55th Street Block Association, and openhousenewyork, is promoting the individual spaces along the parade route as a single entity called Holly Whyte Way. William "Holly" Whyte was an influential urbanist whose books and films championed the substance of successful public space. In addition to enlivening these midtown arcades, F-POPS also seeks to increase their visibility and accessibility by connecting the spaces along the parade route with crosswalks. The proposal for crosswalks has been approved by the Community Board and is now being studied by the NYC Department of Transportation. The Arcade Parade will mark the dedication of Holly Whyte Way through a series of festive events along the nine-block parade route, including presentations of architecture and history by architects Brian Nesin and David Grider, episodes of play from artists Graham Coreil-Allen and Christina Kelly, a moment of site-specific sound by Simone and Claire Ghetti, and raucous music by the Hungry March Band!

Friends of Privately Owned Public Space is an organization dedicated to the celebration and improvement of New York City’s eighty-two acres of POPS. A collaborative of architects, artists, and community leaders concerned with the civic realm, F-POPS seeks to raise public awareness of the existence and purpose of these unique spaces.

f-pops.org / ohny.org / grahamprojects.com

Announcing The ARCADE PARADE!

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:59:00 +0000

October 15 / 11am / Midtown NYC...details to follow....

Vistaflow Opening at Tinges Commons

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:36:00 +0000

Check out these pictures from the Vistaflow opening at Tinges Commons!

Vistaflow opens Sunday, July 10th, 4-7pm

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Marking the grand opening of its new water/watch tower, Tinges Commons announces, "Vistaflow", a permanent social sculpture by Joshua Wade Smith and Graham Coreil-Allen and temporary painting installation by Ryan Neely.

Vistaflow
July 10 - August 27, 2010
Tinges Commons

Opening reception and garden party
July 10th, 4:00 - 7:00pm
Rain date: July 17th, 4:00 - 7:00pm

June 24, 2011 - Tinges Commons presents Vistaflow, a combination water and watchtower by sculptors Joshua Wade Smith and Graham Coreil-Allen and kiosk painting installation by artist Ryan Neely. Constructed entirely of reclaimed materials, the elevated platform and cistern will feed a gravity-fed, garden irrigation system while serving as public observation deck and hangout spot. Participants are invited to climb, stand, sit and relax on the site-specific, pedestrian furniture while enjoying a ceremonial demonstration of the new watering system. Meanwhile, the adjacent Kiosk will feature a wrap-around painting of geometric abstraction derived from the tower architecture and surrounding public space. Food from the garden will be served and all are welcome.

Tinges Commons at Mirkwood Estates is a community garden and collaborative public art space located on the southeast corner of 33rd and Frisby Streets in Waverly. The site of organic interaction is sponsored by the Better Waverly Community Organization, Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Parks and People, John Hopkins University and Charm City Cakes.

Contact:
Graham Coreil-Allen
917-683-5922
detourne@gmail.com

Graham Projects at Transmodern 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:48:00 +0000

With nearly 200 participating artists and a sprawling campus of art sites around west, downtown Baltimore Transmodern has begun! This year I am involved with two of the many shows and events: campcamp and Pedestrian Service Exquisite. This festival represents and incredible array of Baltimore's finest in underground performance. More info at transmodernfestival.org.

campcamp
April 29 & 30, evening/nighttime

Current Space courtyard
421 North howard street (rear - tyson alley)

An exterior exhibition and interactive multi-disciplinary installation for which no prior survival experience is required for participation. Artists will create environments or installations that embrace the participatory and the habitable while expanding on standard campsite deliverables. Organized by Marian April Glebes, in collaboration with Fred Scharmen and C. Ryan Patterson.

USM-campcamp Tapeway
A site-specific map of paths, thresholds and gateways made from adhesive tape. Streaks of colorful artist tape trace movement among campcamp sites.
Tri-Flags
Four colorful flag tripods mark entry into campcamp.

Pedestrian Service Exquisite

May 1, 12-3pm

H&H Building & Surroundings

405 West Franklin Street

May Day is our day of merrymaking to celebrate re-generation, renewal and creation! It is in this spirit, that Pedestrian Service Exquisite (PSE) presents an afternoon of urban safari featuring performance, action, and revelry on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Expect tours, interventions and participatory site-specific works that celebrate regeneration, sustainability and notions of creating anew!

NPS - Drifting Monument
During 15 minute tours that explore some of downtown’s invisible sites and overlooked features, participants will be invited to fill up a wagon with symbolic litter, discrete mementos, entertaining debris and anything else deemed valuable. At the end of the tour, the drifting collection will be deposited around a monument of labor and place. All participants get a free button!

NPS-AD: Intrepid Walking Tour Drifts Through Arlington's Invisible Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:02:00 +0000

Thank you to everyone who joined me on the New Public Sites - Arlington Drift walking tour last Saturday. From undead condo projects to underground rivers, I learned a lot during our hour-long journey together. I hope you enjoyed seeing Ballston's invisible sites as much as I did. May our floating zone of radical pedestrianism continue with infinite freedom.

New Public Sites - Arlington Drift - Walking Tour this Saturday 3/5, 2pm

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:40:00 +0000

Join me on March 5th, 2011 as we explore a thrilling urban sublime while drifting through the liminal zones of Arlington's Ballston neighborhood. The tour will feature twelve New Public Sites, including new types such as HVAC Exhaling, Skygate and Reflexive Moment. All participants get a free New Public Sites button and unlimited edition, color map.

General public tour starts at 2pm.
Childrens's tour starts at 3pm.

Meet at Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Blvd Arlington VA 22201

ON THE ROAD
Arlington Arts Center
FEB 2 - APR 3, 2011

ON THE ROAD features artists who work in the world, away from gallery or studio environments, inviting unexpected encounters. Many of their projects are created in temporary residencies, and explore tourism, informal public spaces, and nomadic peoples.

New Public Sites in On The Road at the Arlington Arts Center

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:20:00 +0000

Among towers, over voids, within our fleeting reflective movements
there live vistas invisible and playscapes for all.

Immersed in the sublime matter of place,
grasping these moments of our daily passing,
drifting through infinite sites of freedom,
we test the limits of space public
and cultivate situations unseen.

New Public Sites - Arlington Drift

2-Channel Video/Map installation

2 Copies of NPS-T

100 Free Maps

1 Free Walking Tour - March 5th, 2pm

All featuring sites within walking distance from the gallery.

ON THE ROAD
Arlington Arts Center
FEB 2 - APR 3, 2011 Opening Reception: FEB 4, 7 - 9 PM

ON THE ROAD features artists who work in the world, away from gallery or studio environments, inviting unexpected encounters. Many of their projects are created in temporary residencies, and explore tourism, informal public spaces, and nomadic peoples.

Baker Artist Awards and New Projects Uploaded

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:24:00 +0000

Baker Artist Awards Nomination updated!

This annual set of awards culled from a seductively interactive website showcases Baltimore's diverse creative talent while demonstrating the city's support for risk-taking artists.

+New projects added at grahamprojects.com:

NPS - PST - Views From Below

NPS - Lexington Park Marion

USM - Whartscape Tapeway 2010

MICA Commencement Speech

NPS-PST: Views From Below in Hope Against Hope at the Phoenix Shot Tower

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:51:00 +0000

Hope Against Hope
Exhibition Dates: October 8 - December 4
Curated by: Michael Benevento + Andrew Shenker
Curatorial Advisor: Angel Oloshove

Opening Reception October 8, 6-10PM, Cash Bar
Live performance by Laure Drogoul, Dustin Wong, and H. Honne Wells

Phoenix Shot Tower
corner of Fayette and Front (near President st, end of I-83)

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From the theft of fire [by Prometheus], to contamination through water [Leviticus]; echoing the home of invention and the cornerstone laying by Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a commercial enterprise dissolves the myth of bullets and opens onto hope as poison at the bottom of Pandora's box.

Scattering the fragments of history to the sound of falling water, this once tallest building in the US becomes a site of modest explorations and play.

Featuring site specific performances, video, drawing, installation, food, and lectures.

Adrian Lohmüller, Anthony Boening, Dane Nester, Dustin Carlson, Dustin Wong, Elizabeth McTernan, Eric Leshinsky, Fred Scharmen, Gram Coreil-Allen, H. Honne Wells, Heda Hokschirr, Jan Razauskas, John Ellsberry, Jordan Bernier, Julianne Hamilton, Kathleen Mazurek, Kristen Anchor, Laure Drogoul, Lee Freeman, Lou Joseph, Marian Glebes, Patrick Caulfield, Mike Washington, Ms. Nagle's March Middle School Class, Robby Rackleff, Ryan von Dohlen, Sometimes Dining, Stewart Watson, Susie Brandt, Teddy Johnson, and Tim Doherty.
www.currentspace.com
www.carrollmuseums.org

*This exhibition is in collaboration with the Carroll Museums and will be hosted at the Phoenix Shot Tower

Phoenix Shot Tower on Google Maps

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New Public Sites - Phoenix Shot Tower: Views From Below

Exchanging historical vistas from the tower's rooftop with street-level contemporary sites, Views From Below re-views the iconic Phoenix from overlooked, interstitial vantages. Hanging within the frame of the "Views From the Top" educational display, pedestrian photos of the tower hover directly in front of skyscraper views from the tower. Instead of looking out from above, the participant looks towards from below. Free maps locate the vista-reversals, encouraging participants to see the new public sites for themselves. Drifting pedestrian views subvert the tower's rarefied vistas by situating the participant within accessible moments of invisible public space.

New Public Sites
Situated within disparate urban zones of overlap, rupture, ambiguity and interstice, the ongoing New Public Sites project addresses how lost spaces and overlooked features of the city are experienced at a pedestrian level. The project starts with a radically expanded understanding of civic space and proposes alternatives for representing and activating the potential for such under-recognized sites.

Desperate Times at Subbasement Artists Studios

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:28:00 +0000

I will be participating in the upcoming Desperate Times, the upcoming show at Subbasement Artist Studios, opening Saturday September 11th and running through October 9th. Five emerging Baltimore artists will exhibit work reflecting a broad range of dystopian anxieties in response to the present state of society and culture.

Opening reception Saturday September 11th, from 7 – 9 p.m.
Subbasement Artist Studios are located 118 N Howard St., Baltimore MD

Darrell Appelzoller’s photographs are built into topographically inspired 3-dimensional islands, exploring issues of individual isolation amidst a wealth of technological communicational devices while we live together in increasingly closer proximity to one another. BHIBTB makes video installations inspired by science fiction films and literature. His videos show a future world in which Utopia seems to have finally come to be a reality, yet this future is extreme in its sterility, sublimely cultish, and Orwellian in its nature. Graham Coreil-Allen’s ongoing project, New Public Sites, exposes the absurd, overlooked, and banal, aspects of the metropolis’ we inhabit through guided tours, videos, and installations, “playfully exploring a thrilling urban sublime through drifting symbols of invisible sites”. Matthew Fishel’s work takes a significantly darker tone. Cinematic in their nature, Fishel’s videos and animations are inspired by, and are in response to, classic science fiction films and Hollywood’s current fascination with apocalyptic scenarios. Sarah McNeil has created a world in which all is not lost. Her sculptures, animations and installations follow the exploits of the Bricoleur Dream Brigade, who with their wit, cleverness, and fantastical devices, combat the negative energies and pervasive cynicism of the current moment, healing individuals and leaving the world a better place than they found it. Desperate Times is curated by Jason Irla who has brought together this group of five artist who’s disparate methods of working are all conceptually linked to finding ways in which to navigate the dystopian world we inhabit. Please join Subbasement Artist Studios, the five artists, and the curator, at an opening reception Saturday September 11th, from 7 – 9 p.m.

Subbasement Artist Studios are open Sunday though Friday by appointment only. For more information please call 410-659-6950, email info@subbasementartiststudios.com or visit us at www.subbasementartiststudios.com

Sign Language opens Thursday night!

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Coreil-Allen) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:34:00 +0000

I have piece in the Sign Language show opening Thursday night at the Whole Gallery. My project consists of flags from a previous project, Distribution Pit Liberation, that I installed in Bushwick in June of 2008. This latest project is a reiteration of two of the original flags from the distribution pit site, now entitled, Distribution Pit Liberation Non-Site.

Sign Language
June 17th-July 19th
Opening reception Thursday, June 17th, 7-9pm
The Whole Gallery
H and H Building, 3rd Floor
405 W. Franklin St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

G.P.S.

Balto East Bike Tour Rolling Success

Bike Tour Oct 5 & Emerge Oct 3-6

Two awesome New Public Events on the same weekend!

New Public Sites - Balto East Bike Tour

Shards of Site at (e)merge art fair

Print/Collect NPS Shards

PRINT/COLLECT

Spontaneous Interventions makes US debut

Station North Ave Drift

Station North Avenue walking tours a drifting success

New Public Sites - Station North Avenue

New Public Sites - Station North Avenue

Spontaneous Interventions

Names vs The Nothing: NPS on 99% Invisible

99% Invisible premieres episode on New Public Sites

A "tiny" radio show about design and architectureexplores the Neverending Story of naminginvisible sites in everyday public space.

New Public Sites in the Venice Architecture Biennale and Online

Visionary Crosswalks / Transmodern / May 18 & 19

Visionary Crosswalks

Transmodern Festival

Alley-OOOPs!

Tyson Alley and Mulbery Street

7:30pm-12am, May 18 & 19, 2012

The Forthcoming Reality of Holly Whyte Way

2011 Updates to grahamprojects.com

Arcade Parade a Wandering Success

The Arcade Parade / 10.15.11 / 11am / Midtown-NYC [updated]

Announcing The ARCADE PARADE!

Vistaflow Opening at Tinges Commons

Vistaflow opens Sunday, July 10th, 4-7pm

Graham Projects at Transmodern 2011

NPS-AD: Intrepid Walking Tour Drifts Through Arlington's Invisible Sites

New Public Sites - Arlington Drift - Walking Tour this Saturday 3/5, 2pm

New Public Sites in On The Road at the Arlington Arts Center

Baker Artist Awards and New Projects Uploaded

NPS-PST: Views From Below in Hope Against Hope at the Phoenix Shot Tower

Desperate Times at Subbasement Artists Studios

Sign Language opens Thursday night!

A "tiny" radio show about design and architecture
explores the Neverending Story of naming
invisible sites in everyday public space.