flotsam/jetsam

Flotsam/Jetsam is a video projection installation exploring themes of memory and loss. Two projections, one in the 2nd floor window facing Poplar, and one on the side of the building facing the courtyard, show distorted and re-editied 16mm home videos. As the figures abruptly appear and disappear, the transistions between their presense and absense is emphasized, addressing the transistion between the act of losing and the noun loss.

Address: "Parkside" 1969 Poplar, Memphis, TN 38104

closing night! Thursday, December 9th 5:00-8:00pm

-natalie hoffmann

Overton Park Map of lost histories

Overton park is not only home to our college, the zoo, the Brooks museum, the shell, and one of the few old growth forests in a city like Memphis, but is also the setting for history lost in time.  Histories and memories that have impacted the people who lived in, and have visited the park since before it was a park. 

The map of lost histories gives vigniettes of these stories lost, or obscured by time. the map also calls into question the objectivity and factuality of the history presented to us and our readiness to accept it. All in a fun filled pamphlet.

So come on down to the Overton park bullitin board near the playground next to rainbow lake and find your way around Overton and its lesser known history!

Transient: 190 Chelsea Avenue

190 Chelsea was the site of Pope Leroy Elementary School, built in the early 1900’s. Currently, nothing remains of the school except two sets of stairs that lead to an empty field.

Many abandoned school lots exist because of redistricting and the community loses part of its center of youth and important development. The schools removal has been expressed as a tremendous loss to the mainstay of the surrounding community. Transient acknowledges the historical and communal context of the site in an attempt to capture the school’s momentary existence.

Shadows of school children were chosen represent the loss associated with this site. The children are temporary and will wash away as suddenly as they appear representing the impermanence of time the space served as a city school, as well as an unfinished narrative of students walking to the entrance of the school that is no longer in existence or virtually ignored by the community.

To view the piece in its entirety, please visit 190 Chelsea Ave, Memphis TN 38107.

Marie Provence

The Non-Ad Ad

The Non-Ad Ad is a handmade collage depicting an urban landscape crowded with billboards and corporate signs. The viewer will notice mass media has been erased, or rather replaced with solid shapes of color. Essentially, the idea is to apply the notion of graffiti removal to corporate advertising.

The Non-Ad Ad is an attack on capitalism. The Non-Ad Ad comments on the incomprehensibility of jumbled mass media by providing another layer of incomprehensibility. The Non-Ad Ad is a subtraction as well as an addition. The Non-Ad Ad is an invasion on the invasion of the psyche. The Non-Ad Ad reflects the emptiness of corporate advertising by replacing it with a void.

The Non-Ad Ad was distributed among car windows in shopping center parking lots in East Memphis. It was also posted up in various locations of midtown and downtown Memphis such as:

the corner of Beale and 2nd
LIttle Italy
Kwik Check
Shangri La records
Otherlands Coffee Bar
Easy Way on Cooper
the corner of Central and Cooper
Black Lodge video
the corner of Nelson and Cooper
Burke's Bookstore
the corner of Young and Cooper
Goner records
Java Cabana
Republic Coffee

Installation Dates: Monday, Dec. 6 through Friday, Dec. 10

Divine Dollars

Divine Dollars are an attempt to address gender assumptions by demystifying cross-gender expression. Through the guise of dollar bills, strategically placed by devotees in public restrooms, Divine Dollars are intended to be an unexpected part of a person's day, not an epiphany causing object, shedding only a very small light on the complexity of gender.

Visit the www.divinedollars.info for more information (duration, location, participation, etc...)

In Spite of Place.

"In Spite of Place" exists on the corner of Second St. and Vance Ave. near downtown Memphis Tennessee.

It deals with the idea of home that lives in all of our minds and the displacement of the word in a physical way.

Emily Marshall

December 2010