It's happening!
Harmony Thompson, Jay Sand, and I are so please to announce....
The inauguration of the on-going LAVA Installation project.
The Lancaster Avenue Autonomous Zone is a center for radical media and organizing at 4134 Lancaster Ave in West Philadelphia. The LAVA collective's mission is to create an empowering and welcoming physical space where diverse communities converge to build connections and break down barriers, blending media-making, artistic expression and hardy nuts-and-bolts organizing in order to advance movements for justice.
The LAVA Installation project is an attempt to fill the entire three-story row house that is LAVA with permanent art installations by Philadelphia artists who are interested in using art to move social change forward.
Jay Sand invited Harmony and I to organize this on-going project, and organize we did!
In addition to inviting, curating, scheduling, and publicizing, Harmony and I have both created installations in the space.
The images below are from my installation- The LAVA Navel Project. Each form is a plaster cast of the navel of a person who is involved in the LAVA space in some way. The installation is on the stairs from the second to the third floors of the building.
press!
The Philadelphia City Paper
The Philadelphia Weekly
The first round of installations opened with a well-attended reception on Saturday November 4, 2006:
the crowd
bathroom by bilwa
tile mural by harmony and beth
posters by eian
molly sand wheat-pastes with zoe in the " show someone how you feel about something" bathroom
harmony means business. donate, dammit!
participating artists include:
Beth Uzwiak & Harmony Thompson
Bilwa
Des Jackson
Dominic Lepore
Eian Weissman
Elysa Voshell
HAAK Collective
JJ Tiziou
Jodi Netzer
Michael Schwartz
Mary Tasillo
Sarah Phillips
Zoe Cohen
We are now seeking proposals for the next round of installations, due to open in May 2007. Interested artists can stop by the space during open library hours, Wednesdays 4-8pm and Sundays Noon-6pm. Please contact me for more information.
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