Curating Public Narratives 2018: Chelsea Public Narratives

Course Description

This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Chelsea Public Narratives

14th St - 42nd St West Side

High Line

Prop by Phyllida Barlow
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Agora by Various Artists

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I Left My Lamp Beside the Golden Door by Dorothy Iannone
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West 25th btwn 8th and 9th

Chelsea Recreation Center Mosaics

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9th Ave and 27th St

Chelsea Park- Frank L Dowling Monument

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Chelsea Park Memorial- Doughboy

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PARKS

- w 17th and 8th Ave: Dr. Gertrude B Kelly Playground

- W 20th and 7th Ave: Chelsea Green
- w 22nd and 10th Ave: Clement Clarke Moore Park
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