Clothing provides new medium for exchange
http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/printedi [2008-7-21]
Tag : exchange receptacle
So, was it a chic consignment shop or an art gallery? Well, both.Sort of.
Stuart Keeler, who staged the two-day event on the last weekend ofJune, invited visitors to bring clothing they no longer wanted andexchange it for something someone else had brought. But theclothing exchange was really an enticement to bring people into thegallery. What he hoped to create was a social exchange.
As the gallery took on the intimacy of a Loehmaan's fitting room,perfect strangers gabbed and compared notes —- about clothesand art —- and some 160 people, including some gallerynewbies, graffitied the wall with stories about their clothing.
"Stuart is a 'connector,' " says artist Joe Peragine. Invoking aterm from the best-seller "The Tipping Point," he explains, "Itrefers to people who have a gift to bring people together, createsynergy. . . . Our art community needs more people like that."
Like a number of artists in our midst, the Vancouver-born Keelermoved here from elsewhere —- Chicago, specifically —- ayear ago, because of his partner's job. The flexibility afforded bycellphones, laptops and a big airport enables artists to stayconnected to the larger art world. Keeler can work on his ownpublic art projects —- large-scale works fabricated by others—- organize events and conduct research anywhere he lays hislaptop.
So, was it a chic consignment shop or an art gallery? Well, both.Sort of.
Stuart Keeler, who staged the two-day event on the last weekend ofJune, invited visitors to bring clothing they no longer wanted andexchange it for something someone else had brought. But theclothing exchange was really an enticement to bring people into thegallery. What he hoped to create was a social exchange.
As the gallery took on the intimacy of a Loehmaan's fitting room,perfect strangers gabbed and compared notes —- about clothesand art —- and some 160 people, including some gallerynewbies, graffitied the wall with stories about their clothing.
"Stuart is a 'connector,' " says artist Joe Peragine. Invoking aterm from the best-seller "The Tipping Point," he explains, "Itrefers to people who have a gift to bring people together, createsynergy. . . . Our art community needs more people like that."
Like a number of artists in our midst, the Vancouver-born Keelermoved here from elsewhere —- Chicago, specifically —- ayear ago, because of his partner's job. The flexibility afforded bycellphones, laptops and a big airport enables artists to stayconnected to the larger art world. Keeler can work on his ownpublic art projects —- large-scale works fabricated by others—- organize events and conduct research anywhere he lays hislaptop.
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