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Goodbye My Coney Island Baby

Vicki Wilson and I will be showing our short film “Good Bye My Coney Island Baby” along with an installation at the Chemeketa Community College Gallery in Salem this January.

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Making Changes: Portland

I have just made changes to my neighborhood in Portland, OR.  Go ahead and make changes to the place you live and upload your video to YouTube.  Contact Lee Walton with the link, your name and location and he will post everything. One neighborhood at a time…

The Official Unofficial Goodwill Residency Program by Laurel Kurtz with Vicki Lynn Wilson and John Larsen

CALL FOR STAGE HANDS, EXTRAS, GRIPS AND FOLEY ASSISTANTS: This is an open call for volunteer assistance in the making of a stop motion animation movie at 1943 SE Sixth Aveue on Friday September 12th from 10am to 8pm.

Expanding on a past project where she unofficially designated herself as Artist in Residence at the Goodwill Super Store in SE Portland, Laurel Kurtz is coordinating a project administered by the Office of Inclusion and Parallel University for PICA’s Time Based Art Festival’s Neighborhood Projects where she has unofficially officially appointed Vicki Lynn Wilson and John larsen as Artists in Residence in the same locale.

For more information please visit The Official Unofficial Goodwill Residency site

Remote Instructions with Lee Walton

Remote Instructions is a web-central project that utilizes both the communication capabilities of the web and spectatorship of its users. From a central hub, Walton is collaborating with strangers globally via the web and orchestrating a series of video performances that will take place in real cities, neighborhoods, villages and towns around the world.

You can see my instruction video here.

The video work created will be exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York 2008.

1000 Joyce Walks

1000 Joyce Walks is an international participatory art project which will stage 1000 walks, re-enacting scenes from Ulysses, in cities throughout the world to celebrate Bloomsday 2008. You can follow my walk, or make your own here.

Colloquy Exchange 5

Walter Lee and I recently started a conversational project via youtube. Here is his latest response. If you would like to follow the whole conversation please go to our individual profiles. Me / Walter

Here, I made a political sign for your front yard…enjoy.

Part of the UnConvention Project. myyardourmessage.com

LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE ASSIGNMENT

I was feeling a bit unproductive, so I decided to do a LTLYM project. Today it’s #11.

“Photograph a scar and write about it”

I fell off my skateboard when I was 13. I was attempting to ride down a steep hill, but I wasn’t very good. A car drove up very close behind me and began honking aggressively. I lost control and fell for what seemed like an eternity.
The driver got out and began laughing at me as I was crying. A girl leaned out of the car and asked if I was alright, but I was still mad at the driver for causing my accident. I walked back up the hill and inspected my arm. It was covered with blood. I began screaming involuntarily as the blood dripped off and landed on my shoes.
A woman ran up and rushed me inside her house to clean my wounds. She dipped my elbow in salt water and picked out the gravel. I found out she was a parent of another kid at my school. His name was James, and we later became friends. They were Mormons. Since that experience, I found that all of the Mormons I have met were very nice people.

SWI BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Here’s a fun project by Scott Wayne Indiana, you should try it.

“Design a book cover of a biography of a local artist you like, and email the image to the artist. (if you really want to go off the deep end, print post cards of the “soon to be released biography” and hand them out at art openings.) be sure to include your own name.”

Here’s the one I sent him….