Schedule of Events
Friday 5.14
- opening reception -
The Steelyard ||
featuring various artists
27 Sims Ave., 5-7 pm
Film screenings, poetry readings, interactive media, and a steelyard’s worth of artistic works occupy the former site of Providence Steel Inc. Now occupied by the Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build, industry meets artistry with artists from all over the U.S. represented by sculpture, mapping projects, spacial reconstruction experiments, video/photographic documentaries and more. Reception is free and open to the public.
- games + exploration –
Live Free and Drift ||
JohnJ McGurk
The Steelyard, meet at 2:00 pm
Using a variety of historical and present-day maps, an exploratory derive will wind its way through Providence neighborhoods. We will bserve and discuss the progression of architecture and the function it serves, and how that shapes the community that live within.
Benefit St. Upclose ||
Kerry E. Adams
34 Benefit St., 3:00 pm
At an apartment building located at thirty-four Benefit St., I will give tours of abandoned basement spaces and rooms. I have created site-specific installations that transform these forgotten spaces into a context for art and the exploration of space, mood, personal experiences, and social concerns.
- public interventions -
Analog ||
Jenna Mastroianni
The Steelyard, 5-7 pm
The concept for this piece involves the use of both old and new technologies, with the recalling of an expereince from our past. Just as these “lost” spaces are becoming transformed and revisited, this interactive performance links both the past and future in the present experience.
Rough Sesh V ||
Pillow Fighting with Fucking Costumes
Prospect Park, 11:00 pm
Meet at Prospect Park to take Providence... Costumes and masks a must, no forks in the pillowcases, no cheap-shots, dress to impress. We have waited for this moment...
- services -
Post-Postcard ||
Erika Howsare
Downtown waterfront, 8-11 pm
A postcard “factory” will be available for public use. This postcard kiosk will invite participants to choose photographs, text, and other imagery to create original postcards based on their perception of the city.
