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CULTURAL TIPS FOR NEW AMERICANS A public art project, lower Manhattan May 2 - 28, 2011
Produced by No Longer Empty for the About Face
exhibition, a part of The Festival of Ideas for the New
City organized by the New Museum. As the proverbial "Land of Opportunity," the United States has always had a steady stream of new Americans. For their Cultural Tips For New Americans project, Alina and Jeff Bliumis gathered advice to help recent arrivals assimilate and understand their new home. The artists took advice from published guides, public forums, streets questionnaires, social websites, and friends to create tips like: |
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Alina and Jeff Bliumis have illustrated these tips and created posters to be placed on telephone kiosks on the Bowery and in
Chinatown and Soho, from May 1 to May 28, 2011.
LOCATIONS: telephone kiosks @ Bowery & Rivington Street, Bowery & Grand Street, W Broadway & Spring Street, Broadway & Broome Street, NYC |
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Accompanying the street-level posters, the artists are also producing a handbook
of all the tips. Books were given for free to pedestrians during The Festival of Ideas for the New City organized by the New Museum on Saturday May 7, 2011 at NoLongerEmpty booth / Rivington and Chrystie Streets NYC. In addition, the artists asked visitors to share their Cultural Tips with them. By the end of the day the artists gathered 104 tips.
HISTORY OF THE PROJECT We started "Cultural Tips For New Americans" project in 2009 and t created eight foam objects in a shape of an open book. Every object has a tip and illustration. Those objects were part of our "Casual Conversations in Brooklyn" exhibition at Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, March - May 2009. After seeing public reaction to the work and receiving a steady stream of new "cultural tips" from visitors we decide to proceed with an idea of placing the project in the public realm.
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CULTURAL TIPS FOR NEW AMERICANS 2009 Series of 8 objects Materials: cast foam, acrylic and ink / painted pegboard, metal hooks Each object: 18 x 10 x 1 in Installation dimension: 12.5 x 8 ft Edition of 3
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This performance/variable media art work was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Major support of the Franklin Furnace Fund was provided in 2010-11 by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation and Jerome Foundation. This project was also made possible by the Center Without Walls project of COJECO, funded by the UJA-Federation of NY and Genesis Philanthropy Group. This work is produced by No Longer Empty for the About Face exhibition, part of The Festival of Ideas for the New City, organized by The New Museum.
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