ZOMBIES

by Jade, Luis, Caroline, and Fernando

(opening 60 seconds lovingly appropriated from another student film!!)

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NEWSTIME TRAIN CRASH

video response piece by Spencer, Zoe, Luther, Siena, and Lily

Evonny’s Socrates Sculpture Park response piece

Brandi compares and contrasts.

While at Socrates Sculpture Park, I immediately thought of another man-made park we had been spending a lot of time at – the High Line. At Socrates the water was so close, and the overall feeling was so quiet.

The school girl

In this video you are able to see how we use our imagination with a little of creativity.Living in New York City we know how it is to travel and sometimes we know how it is to be in a hurry and get to the train on time, with this in mind, that was what became the motivation of how we used the space at the socretes sculpture park.

Usman’s Subway Course

Copyrighted by Usman. Trust me if you copy this we’ll war in court.

Day 7: Thursday, July 16

FIELDTRIP: Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Exhibition: University of Trash & Socrates Sculpture Park

Workshop: Students will meet at the Sculpture center to check out their current installation – “The University of Trash is an experiment in alternative architecture, urbanism, and pedagogy taking place in SculptureCenter’s main space. Drawing from utopian ideals and radical urban projects undertaken since the 1960s, the artists will create an installation that functions as a temporary, makeshift University – hosting courses, lectures, presentations, and workshops. A Free Skool program will operate within the University, offering the public the opportunity to propose their own courses – open and free for all who sign up and attend throughout the duration of the exhibition.”

From there, we will take a bus to Socrates Sculpture park – using our new found deep listening skills to examine the urbanscape as we travel. At the Sculpture Park, we will talk about similarities and differences between the Center, the Park, and the City; and then participate in a culture hacking activity.

Critical Frameworks: The show has been (a) partially built by high school students, (b) is about artist enacted social / creative interventions into public space, using found materials, performance, participant driven events. Both are artist founded spaces, showcasing new work by artists.

Resources: Research on Univ Trash, other participant driven schools such as Sundown Salon. Article on Dumpster Diving from “Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook”

—UNDER THIS LINE—

Today, we took a nice little trip all the way into some god forbid place in queens, to the sculpture park names Socrates Sculpture Park. It used to be an aberrant wasteland which people used to toss their unwanted things (like cars, blenders and maybe dead bodies). The land was so bad that not even the city wanted it. To the rescue came some really cool dude (named Mark di Suvero) bought the land and made it into the park that it was today.

A sculpture from Socrates.

In order to get there, we had to take a bus and walk several blocks. Bus rides are fun.

Talking always passes the time.

Our task for that day was to create something–whether it be photos of the place or videos containing zombies and/or reporters. We had to use the space in Socrates Sculpture Park to create our own piece of artwork.

We were allowed to climb things.

Luis running away from the garbage zombies.

Bloggers: Jade and Zoe