Brainstorm Notes

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

Philadelphia

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

“Temples of Shopping”

Teen Room and Carnegie Library

Antiwar protest March 29th