Notes for Youth Curatorial 2008
THEMES/CONCEPTS:
-Houses/provincialism/ sometimes stick to our own
-Garage bands
-Steelers phenomenon
-Transition areas/ Fractals
-Posting secrets into Gigapans
-Multiple Gigapans stitched on top/intermixed from various days, times
-Trying to stitch together neighborhoods in ‘similar’ locales
-Diverse group hangouts – stitched together to compare/contrast.
Taking groups out of context
-Confusing the stitcher purposefully
-Same place with one person dressed differently each time
-Emptying purses, backpacks, people’s belongings, “collecting”
-88 Neighborhoods in Pgh
-Houses/Homes---clicking on Windows in a Gigapan to go into pictures of interiors, ex: youth hanging out
-Activities where parents/adults and youth interact/react
-SWAP – live each others’ lives for one day
PLACES:
Stores: candy stores, Klavons, Strip District
Festivals: Children’s Folk Festival, places with costumes and color
PPG Iceskating
Forbes and Murray
GIGAPANS TO TAKE:
Teens doing jigsaw puzzles
RAVE / DANCE PARTY
Dance on Gateway Clipper
Drag show/ drag queens/kings
Compare religions/ us in different religious locales
MALL Culture
Skateparks/playgrounds
“Scramble crossings”
Calm v. Motion
Juxtaposition of safe v. unsafe
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Teen Room and Carnegie Library
Antiwar protest March 29th
