PSY-GEO-PROVFLUX press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PSY-GEO-PROVFLUX
Providence, RI May 14 + 15, 2004
Location and hours:
The Steelyard, Sponsored by the Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build (WVCB)
27 Sims Ave, Providence, RI
Fri(14) opening reception 5-7p
Open from noon till dusk both Friday and Saturday.
Contacts:
PIPS: JohnJ McGurk ([email protected]) or David Allyn ([email protected])
http://provlfux.blogs.com
WVCB: Peter Eiermann, (401)440-1808.
The PsyGeoProvflux is a two day event investigating how the urban landscape of Providence affects its social and artistic community. Sponsored by PIPS, the Provflux is dedicated to further investigations of contemporary psychogeography and experimental forms of public art. We hope to create new collaboration between groups and individuals working with and interpreting the urban fabric of Providence. One part conference, and two part experimentation, the Provflux will include public space reclamations, maps, 24 hour workshops, and lectures in an effort to discover the unseen in the Renaissance city.
Growing from the efforts of Glowlab in NYC and a larger network of psychogeographers worldwide, the Provflux was initiated after PIPS's participation in the first Conflux in NYC. This year the event has grown, including many more artists and projects deciphering the city in a four day event being held at the same time as the Provflux. We hope the energy generated from both shows can lead to further collaboration between artists and thinkers studying the city. The Conflux site is here: http://glowlab.blogs.com/psygeocon
A complete schedule, event details, links to participants, and contact information will be available at http://provflux.blogs.com
The Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies(PIPS) is an artist collaborative based in Providence, RI. We are a loose knit group of artists attempting to engage in the public realm. Interventions, mobile devices, and urban aesthetic enhancement are a few of our projects. PIPS website coming shortly.
WVCB (woonasquatucket valley community build) has been developed to insure an evolution in public and private space available for freelance and education for the production of industrial arts. An Industrial art is described as: the methodology and experimentation or manipulation of material with the use of industrial tools to create art. One of the WVCB objectives is to instruct participants in an introduction to industrial metallurgy and allow for the creative development of the individual. http://provflux.blogs.com/schedule/
