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7/10/2002

Changing Light

Fort Point Channel area, Boston

Public Art in a Season of Transition; a series of public artworks and events opening in October.

When:
10/8-10/22 (with many events scheduled to coincide with Fort Point Open Studios)

(Boston) Dedicated to expanding the visibility of Fort Point's vibrant and vocal community, the Fort Point Cultural Coalition (FPCC) is continuing its ambitious public art series. Changing Light: Public Art in a Season of Transition is a celebration of change, taking stock in the past and looking towards the future. Members of New England's largest artist community make art among the moving shadows and tides of this very special neighborhood called the Fort Point Channel. The public art and events surrounding the Fort Point Open Studios are dedicated to all things uncertain, and to a neighborhood in a state of transformation. The public art pieces will be installed throughout the Fort Point Neighborhood. Changing Light will feature the work of nine Fort Point Artists:

*We Are Here! -- a life size hologram of Fort Point artists speaking about life in the Fort Point neighborhood. Voices will be heard from under state-of-the-art audio domes! -- by Harriet Casdin-Silver, Kevin Brown, and Daniel Ackere in collaboration with hologram fabricator John Perry. (Location: South Station Concourse from October 12th-18th; Opening Reception: Saturday, October 12th, 4-6pm)

*Channel Lanterns Project -- six lanterns that will be installed over the new lamps on the Children's Museum Wharf. The lanterns transform existing lamppost standards along Museum Wharf into sculptural elements made animate through illumination and wind -- by Mike Tyrrell and Sandra Vieira (Location: Children's Museum Wharf; Unveiling and Lighting of the Channel Lanterns, along with the official release of the Fort Point Vision for Public Art: a Multidisciplinary Charrette's Conference Summary: Friday, October 18th, 6:30 pm)

*Take an Artist to Lunch Foundation (TALF) -- promotional posters and video parody of starving artists appealing to benevolent corporate stereotypes -- by Jeff Smith

*Comfort/Discomfort -- a series of cement pillows sited throughout Fort Point and the City, to bring attention to the loss of artist space in the City of Boston -- by Anna Crowley

*Mapping Fort Point -- a self-guided "audiotimewalk" of sites in Fort Point where visitors hear stories and learn about the history of this neighborhood and itstransformation from a predominantly industrial warehousing, light manufacturing zone to an area revitalized by artists and artistic production,to the new frontier of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and private developers of luxury condominiums, Class A office space and parking lots -- by Shannon Flattery and Megan Hurst (Mapping Fort Point: An Audio Timewalk also includes a website at http://www.mappingfortpoint.com)

*Endangered Species -- a series of information placards, similar to zoological information, about Fort Point artists -- by Chris Nau

Other FPCC public art pieces that continue to prevail in the Fort Point area are: *Peer Amid and Gnomon (floating sculpture in the Fort Point Channel by Don Eyles), *Spray Bomb (a large welded sculpture of a bug repellent aerosol can by Eric Legacy), *Filling in the Gaps (ceramic pieces that are filling in cracks in the sidewalk by Danielle Krcmar)

Tickets:
Free; for more information call Mobius at 617-542-7416

For more information on the Fort Point Cultural Coalition's (FPCC's) Public Art Series, see the projects' website at http://www.saveourstudios.org. The FPCC's Public Art Series is funded with support from the Fund for the Arts, a restricted fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Boston Foundation Arts Fund.

Mobius
Boston's Artist-Run Center
for Experimental Work in All Media
354 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02210
phone: 617-542-7416
fax: 617-451-2910

Where:
outside throughout the Fort Point Channel area of South Boston; near South Station and the Children's Museum

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