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9/5/2003

Harrell Fletcher

Real Art Ways, Hartford

Now It’s A Party

A project for Real Art Ways by Harrell Fletcher with members of the Parkville Senior Center and students from The Hartford Art School, Now It’s a Party combines a gallery exhibition with a series of temporary public art projects for or about aspects of Parkville, Real Art Way’s neighborhood in Hartford, CT.


The project is in seven parts:

Come Sit Down Beside Me, Friend
Salvaged couches from Parkville spliced together to make one big couch and placed in a local park, and borrowed snapshots from local family photo albums of people sitting on couches also spliced together to make an enlarged 3 x 3O ft picture, exhibited in the gallery.

The Problem Of Possible Redemption
A video adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses shot at the Parkville Senior Center, with the seniors reading the lines from cue cards. The piece addresses society, war, and personal mortality. The video will be screened on Thursday May 8th after dusk, outside the Senior Center, and continuously in the gallery.

We Love To Tell The Story
An outdoor performance on Sunday May 11th at 3pm in Day Park at the corner of Arbor and Orange Street that combines Bro Danielson playing music in his tree costume and 100 members of various local church choirs in their robes singing backup. Bro Danielson (Daniel Smith of The Danielson Family, www.danielsonfamilie.com) will also be performing at the exhibition opening on the night of May 10th.

And The Sun Shines For You Today
A free newspaper reporting “good things” that have recently happened to people in the Parkville area. Copies of the broadsheet will be available at various neighborhood locations, in the gallery, and at various galleries, bookstores and museums around the country.

Learning To Love You More Assignment 21: Make A Bust Of Steve
Learning to Love You More is a web-based participatory project by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July. The site offers “assignments” that anyone in the world can “report” on. The results are then posted on the web site (http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com) and as part of various exhibitions and screenings. Assignment 21: Make A Bust Of Steve was designed specifically for Real Art Ways. During a visit to Hartford for the Real Art Ways project, Fletcher took a taxi and met Steve, a Greek taxi driver who discovered Fletcher was an artist and then asked for a bust to made of him. He gave Fletcher a picture of himself to put on the web site so that people could sculpt him and have the busts displayed at Real Art Ways during the exhibition.

Happiness Follows Us Like A Shadow
A portable artificial epiphany machine made from a large scale wagon with four bright lights on extension poles, and speakers that play a mix of multiple church choirs from Parkville singing a single chord together. The machine is activated by a motion sensor and will be sited in various Parkville locations at night, and stored in the gallery during the day.

We Are Not Asleep
Free meditation classes will be offered at The Parkville Senior Center on various dates during the run of the show. The public is invited to join the seniors during these classes.

Harrell Fletcher
Over the last ten years Portland, OR based artist Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on interdisciplinary, site-specific projects exploring the dynamics of social spaces and communities. Fletcher has done projects for New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, and The de Young Museum in San Francisco, Alleged Gallery, and The Drawing Center in NYC, COCA in Seattle, WA., PICA, in Portland Oregon, and DiverseWorks in Houston, TX. He has been commissioned to produce public art projects for the San Francisco Art Commission, The Washington State Art Commission, The University of Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon’s Regional Art and Culture Council. He has received grants and residencies from The Creative Work Fund, Gunk, Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the California Arts Council. To find out more about his work go to: http://www.harrellfletcher.com

Real Art Ways
REAL ART WAYS Founded in 1975, Real Art Ways is a non-profit contemporary arts organization dedicated to providing emerging and established artists with the resources needed to make and show new, innovative or experimental work, while serving the region as a showcase for, and advocate of, art at the forefront of current disciplines. Real Art Ways seeks an overall balance among artistic disciplines, between emerging and established artists, and among work of local, regional and national significance. Real Art Ways is an active presenter of different art forms, including music, performance theater, spoken word, film, video and visual arts. Recent exhibitions have included work by The Atlas Group, Aziz + Cucher, Yinka Shonibare, Sam Taylor-Wood, Cornelia Parker, Shirazeh Houshiary, Hanne Darboven, Mark Bradford, Panamarenko, Sue Williams, Charles LeDray, Kehinde Wiley, Mel Bochner, Tolland Grinnell, Tom Sachs, Shellburne Thurber, Olafur Eliasson, Josiah McElheny, Janine Antoni, Jocelyn Taylor and Spencer Finch.

Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, Connecticut

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