Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Nov, 2008




"Storyline Transport: Chicago"
By Jaclyn Jacunski and Jung A. Woo

In this project they intended to create important cross-cultural exchanges and understandings. They wanted to use the East Pilsen Studio and use the space to transform symbolic conversations that express the complexities and concerns of everyday lives in the community.

They understand art to be like "The Whole Ball of Wax", as said by Jerry Salts, the senior art critic of New York Magazine. He continues to state, "Art is an energy source that helps make change possible; it sees things in clusters and constellations rather than rigid system.  Art is a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself, a medium or matrix through which one sees the world, and that grants that pleasure is an important form of knowledge.  Art is not optional; it is necessary."

They believe that art is essential in affecting social justice and change.  The investigations they proposed separates them typical sources of support and places them in locations outside the spaces of museums and art galleries.  They feel it is essential to bring artwork closer to diverse communities and the local residents.  Throughout their practices as artists, they question and seek to expand by making their roles as individuals more "elastic" in the larger communities.  They do this through continual investigation and consideration of what an individual artist's role is in society.  This "Storyline Transport: Chicago" project investigates what art is, what artists do, and the potential use for art to exist beyond traditional systems.  In our cultural, social and ecological landscapes, the answers are complex and the questions are without end.  However, the questions are reason this project was generated.  By developing collaborative and community-based projects they nurture their investigation of the role an artist ad how the practices are integrated into our communities.

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