Social Frame (2005)

a contextualizing

After installation in Riverside park

Overview

Social Frames was an ephemeral training project for recontextualizing space within boundaries provided by simple readymade pvc pipe cubes. The project, easily recreatable by anyone, allows for any layman outside the art world to experience contextualizations important in contemporary art and provides a social platform to discuss with public space how art definitions function.

This project was enacted by two separate teams as a fun way to teach and experience art. Each group determined the best way to construct the precarious cubes by relying on the support of a pre-existing support, in the form of a tree. The groups collaboratively determined the aesthetic properties of where to locate the frames within the space given. The structures were then disassembled moments after they were completed.

From these power struggles came an art experience which was not dictated by pre-determined artists, but by the public community and how these people interacted with public space.


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