“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” So spoke the great Vermonter and philosopher, Professor and Doctor John Dewey. At its core, If You Build It is about that universal truth.
The story does not lack for authentic human drama. The school superintendent, Dr. Chip Zullinger, of bitterly impoverished Bertie County, North Carolina, takes a chance in a failing area and brings two innovative, untraditional new educators to his high school. Designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller arrive with heady dreams of revitalizing an area on its knees and set up a shop class, entitled “Studio H,” for ten high school juniors, with the objective of teaching design, and then actually building the students’ project – a Farmer’s Market for the town. Not long after, Zullinger is fired by a frustratingly inept school board stuck in old, broken ways, and Matt and Emily lose their funding.
The story does not lack for authentic human drama. The school superintendent, Dr. Chip Zullinger, of bitterly impoverished Bertie County, North Carolina, takes a chance in a failing area and brings two innovative, untraditional new educators to his high school. Designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller arrive with heady dreams of revitalizing an area on its knees and set up a shop class, entitled “Studio H,” for ten high school juniors, with the objective of teaching design, and then actually building the students’ project – a Farmer’s Market for the town. Not long after, Zullinger is fired by a frustratingly inept school board stuck in old, broken ways, and Matt and Emily lose their funding.
- 8/20/2015
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Siah Armajani: The Tomb Series Alexander Gray Associates September 4 - October 18, 2014
Iranian-born Siah Armajani, inarguably one of the finest sculptors in America to have emerged out of minimal and conceptual art, the main aesthetic strategies of the late 1960s, creates deeply affective rigorous and ruminative work. It appears to be at once elementarily simple and tautly complex.
The Tomb Series, Armajani's affective and whip-smart show at Alexander Gray Associates, reaffirms that no other artist doing public works has so richly mined the legacy of the Russian Constructivists with such complexity, finesse, and exalted depth of feeling. No other artist has been involved in creating a public art that provides a reminder of shared, communal values and does so without pandering or sentimentality. No other artist has invested so many years on an extended public meditation on moral excellence in relation to civic pride and civic virtue. In one of his early writings the artist stated,...
Iranian-born Siah Armajani, inarguably one of the finest sculptors in America to have emerged out of minimal and conceptual art, the main aesthetic strategies of the late 1960s, creates deeply affective rigorous and ruminative work. It appears to be at once elementarily simple and tautly complex.
The Tomb Series, Armajani's affective and whip-smart show at Alexander Gray Associates, reaffirms that no other artist doing public works has so richly mined the legacy of the Russian Constructivists with such complexity, finesse, and exalted depth of feeling. No other artist has been involved in creating a public art that provides a reminder of shared, communal values and does so without pandering or sentimentality. No other artist has invested so many years on an extended public meditation on moral excellence in relation to civic pride and civic virtue. In one of his early writings the artist stated,...
- 10/2/2014
- by Dominique Nahas
- www.culturecatch.com
Gutai artists (various) Gutai: Splendid Playground Solomon R. Guggenheim Through May 8, 2013 "Discarding the frame, getting off the walls, shifting from immobile time to lived time, we aspire to create a new painting." Suburō Murakami, Osaka, 1957
"Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!" MC5, Detroit, 1968
The Guggenheim Museum's Gutai: Splendid Playground presents the work of Japan's most influential avant-garde collective of the postwar era. Founded by the visionary artist Jirō Yoshihara in 1954, the Gutai group was legendary in its own time.
Its young members explored new art forms, combining performance, painting, and interactive environments, and realized an "international common ground" of experimental art through the worldwide reach of their exhibition and publication activities.
The Gutai Art Association (active 1954-72) originated in Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan. Spanning two generations, the group totaled fifty-nine Japanese artists over its eighteen-year history. The name "Gutai" literally means "concreteness" and captures the direct engagement with materials...
"Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!" MC5, Detroit, 1968
The Guggenheim Museum's Gutai: Splendid Playground presents the work of Japan's most influential avant-garde collective of the postwar era. Founded by the visionary artist Jirō Yoshihara in 1954, the Gutai group was legendary in its own time.
Its young members explored new art forms, combining performance, painting, and interactive environments, and realized an "international common ground" of experimental art through the worldwide reach of their exhibition and publication activities.
The Gutai Art Association (active 1954-72) originated in Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan. Spanning two generations, the group totaled fifty-nine Japanese artists over its eighteen-year history. The name "Gutai" literally means "concreteness" and captures the direct engagement with materials...
- 4/23/2013
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Taking the broad view, the harvest of technology has been leisure. Subtract all the technology and progress, return to the state of nature, and we'd all have to be hustling a lot more to make sure we didn't, well, starve. Technology, then, has been a blessing--but also a curse, since it has enabled our sedentary lifestyle with all the special kinds of havoc that wreaks on our health: obesity, heart disease, diabetes. But if technology got us into this mess, could technology get us out of it?
Researchers in Scotland have created a device they are calling the Activator. The device, first developed by Malcolm Granat of the University of Strathclyde, and now advanced by a Strathclyde affiliated company called Pal Technologies, is like a seriously tricked-out pedometer. Far from just measuring steps taken, the Activator knows and records precisely when a patient is sitting still, standing, or walking. Information...
Researchers in Scotland have created a device they are calling the Activator. The device, first developed by Malcolm Granat of the University of Strathclyde, and now advanced by a Strathclyde affiliated company called Pal Technologies, is like a seriously tricked-out pedometer. Far from just measuring steps taken, the Activator knows and records precisely when a patient is sitting still, standing, or walking. Information...
- 9/24/2010
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
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