IMG_2236 Com Exchange Allison Smith
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- As an open-sourcing of my own access, my work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that become available through the non-visual senses.
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- Often requiring trust and closeness, these engagements disorient the participant while introducing new modes of orientation that allow for perceptual and sensorial discovery.
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- Each walking tour, workshop, collaborative performance, public intervention, museum project and art object that I produce is a temporary system of access—a gesture that contributes to a productive understanding of accessibility.
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- I design experiences that allow those involved to expand their perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces.
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- Aki Sasamoto prepares to tell stories from her food cart.
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- Smith’s chair will be a mobile work of public art moving into and out of public spaces throughout the summer.
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- Allison Smith shares her oversized Windsor armchair with Judith Leeman.
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- Smith presents an oversized sack-back Windsor armchair ( also called a “double Windsor”) that is large enough to encompass sitters in its sculpted saddled oval seat.
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- Allison Smith presents a site-specific project engaging the Cambridge Common and its history within broader concepts of “the commons” as a utopian ideal and critical site of communication and exchange.
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- The conversations prompted by Smith, explore a series of individual functional objects, like the chair itself, suggest a social and poetic response to the politics of our time.
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- One of many musicians performing throughout the Common as part of Xaviera Simmons’ Number 22 ( Overlay)
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- One of many musicians performing throughout the Common as part of Xaviera Simmons’ Number 22 ( Overlay)
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- Julianne Swartz’s We Complete invites visitors to launch a soundtrack by simply sitting and holding hands.
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- People connect to hear voices through speakers in Interactive bench by Julianne Swartz.
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- Sign lists audio from James Baldwin, John Donne. Walt Whitman, Bernie Sanders, Erich Fromm, Maya Angelou, Dorothy Day and many other quotable notables.
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- One of many banners with personal memories of Cambridge residents developed by Kelly Sherman.
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- One of many banners in We Were Here:memories of Cambridge Common coordinated by Kelly Sherman.
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- Cooperative touch performs public address.
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- manifesting connectivity in a joyous and playful encounter.
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- Songs, poetry, and quotations echo from a marked bench as two people sit and touch hear-shaped plates to complete an electric circuit to run the speaker system,
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- Signs like this placed at points throughout the Cambridge Common offered schedule updates.
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- Food Rental uses a familiar park fixture of a pushcart to dispense unexpected and often hilarious acts by the artist.
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- Aki Sasamoto presents Food Rental in which she operates a handmade food cart to deliver one-on-one performances for visitors to Cambridge Common.
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- and dancing with vegetable-chopping shoes.
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- wearing lemon glasses, playing oyster-shell castanets
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- True to its context, Sasamoto features food-related projects that operate on the logic of “mis-use:”
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- Carmen Papalia leads eyes-closed walk through Cambridge Common in May 2017.
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- Photo from a similar walk through the Common in May 2017
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