The artists and designers behind Bridge Mix
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A MAJOR MASTERMIND - This was Gallery U Haul's third MIXer - I (Patsy Kline) contacted Terry late '07 to see if she would be interested in doing one of my events on Train Ave. but budget and time didn't allow for that location so the footbridge was selected and a date of fall '08. BridgeMix was Gallery U Haul’s 21st installation over a three-year period, which has included approximately 50 artists and 10,500 participants.
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MIXer Outline:
Participates are invited to see students, artists, and guests create new works across the disciplines of theater, dance, music, visual art, and creative writing - the goal is to experience the creative process - via live art. MIX was created to foster development of new work and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, from novice to professional. Special performances and demonstrations are programmed - and it all takes place in and around a rented U-haul truck at urban/industrial locations such as empty lots, alley ways, streets and bridges.
BRIDGE Mix Outline:
1) Project Mission:
Bring attention to an underutilized resource — Tremont footbridge.
2) Project Description:
Site-specific, interactive installations inside and around a rented 19’ U-haul truck.
3) Project Rationale:
I will be using the bridge as a metaphor for change. As a conceptual artist I am interested in how people find it easier to address their emotions when projected onto inanimate objects. Once this is brought to a persons attention they tend to address their emotions and change occurs. When this change occurs I introduce the fact that the person has also just experienced live art. And that it is creativity that allows us to dream and without dreams we cannot set goals. And without goals you cannot bring people together to create a community.
4) Project Interactivity:
Collaboration with POP UP CITY! Cleveland and approximately 10 area artists who will have installations on either side of the bridge as well as on the bridge.
5) Community Interaction:
People will be encouraged to cross the bridge and report back, via cell phones and cameras and/or participate in a digitally recorded interview inside the U haul regarding their experience crossing the bridge. Each person will be given a package of seeds entitled “Seeds of Change” to take to the other side of the bridge to either plant or create a leave behind sculpture.
6) Collaboration:
The Gallery U Haul installation will have approximately 4 - 8 additional artists filming, texting and blogging the event.
7) Outcomes:
Increased usage of the footbridge with the added touch of exposing participants to the importance of the arts.
8) Accomplishments:
This will be Gallery U Haul’s 21st installation over a three-year period, which has included approximately 40 artists and 10,500 participants. Each installation has brought about change in perceptions — challenging all to address the meaning of art in our lives.
BRIDGEMIX PROJECT STATEMENT:
Based on the work of Carl Jung, change is perceived as death. In other words we don’t want to imagine that anything is going to be different. Our lives are laid out in a linear fashion. ‘I do this and then I do that.’ If a certain amount of change must be dispersed in the daily lives of our society, we will do everything possible to avoid that change, or deny it. This is because it is incredibly difficult to shift paradigms — the way in which we perceive the world.
A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
The Tremont footbridge, which spans I-490, is also unique in the emotions it evokes crossing — from purely utilitarian to shear panic and fear. Fear of what? The passage? The vastness? The unknown? What divides us? What keeps us together? Diversity? Technology?
Ironically, fear is what creates obstacles. But it is obstacles that challenge us to make the choice to change. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. For the fearful it is threatening, for the hopeful it is encouraging, and for the confident it is inspiring. Thus, the Tremont Bridge gives more to the community than a passage from here to there — it challenges one to learn how to live.
We spend a lot of time connecting via cell phones and the Internet trying to build close relationships. Then, when we finally get there, instead of focusing on the person, we dive into our mobile devices and start connecting with others over there, and wind up missing out on those that are here. And when they are gone, really gone, we wonder why we were not here and fear we were never there.
In other words, instead of focusing on HERE, we focus on THERE. And when we get THERE, that becomes our new HERE. And instead of focusing on the new HERE, we focus on the new THERE. It’s a vicious cycle driven by fear of change!
I challenge you to walk the bridge and join the mix. Face your obstacles. Embrace the HERE. Let me know what’s THERE. Text, e-mail, leave me a voice mail, or send a photo or movie clip. Better yet, lets sit down for a digitally recorded interview. Whatever just let me know. . .
Where R U? Here or there?
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