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This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 15, 2011.
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Footloose flanuer: Unlimited supply of high-fives from organizers Brian Nesin, David Grider, Graham Coreil-Allen and Christina Kelly.
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Driftin' detourner: High-fives, plus your very own signed, archival print of the official New Public Sites, Holly Whyte Way map.
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Visionary crosswalker: High-fives, the signed, archival print, plus your name on the back of the free maps we are giving out to all participants!
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Radical Pedestrian: High-fives, the signed map, you participation fame, and a limited edition, custom embroidered F-POPS, Holly Whyte Way patch!
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To playfully explore a thrilling urban sublime through drifting symbols of invisible sites; this is why I make art. As an interventionist public artist, I am interested in the constructs, semiotics and contradictions of our everyday environment. Through urban analysis and research, I develop projects that test the boundaries of pedestrian agency, interpret the overlooked and banal, and investigate the negotiable nature of public space. Situated within disparate urban zones of overlap, rupture, ambiguity and interstice, my 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. Primary components of my work include subtle, outdoor architectural installations, observational videos on public space, interactive walking tours, and various fantastical and discursive maps. Whether marking paths for pedestrian trespassing, framing provocative city vistas, or encouraging participants to find poetic meaning in discrete urban moments, I always bring a sense of play and critical engagement to public space.
