“The ReMuseum is a participatory, mobile experiment that investigates museum processes such as collecting, displaying, valuing and commodifying objects…”(visit site)

Working with community members in DC neighborhoods such as Deanwood, Brentwood, Petworth, and Anacostia, the Floating Lab Collective “mobile curator” helped identify objects of personal value to that were then replicated on large and small scales.  Objects and their oral histories are displayed inside a re-purposed taco truck and inside the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  Visitors to the ReMuseum are invited to redistribute small, casted replicas into their home communities.

Curated by Laura Roulet, the project is part of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’s 5×5 public arts initiative, “twenty-five groundbreaking temporary public art installations that will be installed concurrently throughout the District of Columbia.” (DCCAH website).

For more information about the ReMuseum and to feed back into the project with your own images of objects in new places, visit www.floatinglabcollective.com.

From the VMFA:  “During the VMFA Fellowship Program’s 72 years, the museum has awarded more than $4.6 million and 1,174 awards to Virginia’s art students and professional artists. VMFA received 755 applications, which marks the highest number of applicants in the program’s history.”

More: (VMFA Press Release)

Location Arts Program Gallery
UMUC Inn and Conference Center, Lower Level3501 University Blvd East
Adelphi, MD 20783     Exhibit Hours: 9 a.m.–9 p.m. daily

Follow the above link and RSVP Online for the Opening Event!

http://www.restonarts.org/Exhibitions/BITE.htm

Visitors welcome to attend BITE: A Moderated Dialogue with Philippa Hughes, Monday, July 11, 7:30pm

June 3-30, 2011 in the Terrace Gallery of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC - This exhibition will include work from my series on the Visibility Color.

Kennedy Center SHIFT Events Page

Timing: The exhibition is FREE and open to the public from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Panel discussion with select artists on June 9, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Atrium with a reception following.  Free, but reservations required.  Please visit the above link for details on reserving tickets for the June 9 event.

About SHIFT from VSA:

“Every life contains moments of change. Shift seeks to investigate those moments that alter the direction of a person’s path and create a new reality. Through the artwork, each artist shares a moment in time when a shift in their landscape occurred– it may be personal or professional, mental or physical, internal or external.”

[Quick Edit]

My interest in the topic of visibility comes from both my critique of visual culture, and personal need. Since I was struck, pinned, and disabled by a car in 2007 while walking on the safety of a sidewalk, I have wondered how to keep others and myself safe from similar fates. I notice the fluorescent lime green vests that police and rescue workers wear, as well as construction workers, trash collectors, joggers and cyclists. I see the color becoming more prevalent in our (sub)urban landscape, even on everyday objects such as children’s backpacks.

I began research into the properties that make this color visible and signal warning to drivers. It relates to studies on colorimetrics, semiotics, and human factors research. The effect is curious when we don the color, imagining that it might stop or slow an oncoming car and protect us from injury or death. I wonder what will happen as the trend continues. As the color pops up everywhere, will this diminish the awakening effect on motorists?

I wonder, who is visible? Does visibility make us safer or more vulnerable? Can everyone be equally visible? How do we keep a sense of safety in a world that feels chaotic and over-sped? With these questions and more, I met with the Director of Transportation Services, and the Project Manager of the construction contractor, among others, at George Mason University. I am struck by the interest in creative works about public safety coming from the campus community. Both those offices offered up resources to fuel a project on visibility, including access to workers for interviews, donations of used high-visibility vests, flags, and so on.  Please check back as there will soon be more on that front.

In a photographic series In the Wake of a Lincoln Town Car, I center on the safety color fluorescent yellow-green.  This color shrouds, cloaks, and envelops me.  With light from automobile headlights, the gestures and textures bespeak both dwelling in and departure from the memory of being struck by a car.  Through these large-scale, painterly photographs, I explore new territory in relationship to color, safety, and memory.