Work Around Utopia
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2018-01-01
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Visual Arts
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Imaging and Digital Arts
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Abstract
WORK AROUND UTOPIA is an alternative vision of service within public space that reimagines participants, practices, and tools using humor, craft, and design. Through playful reconfiguration, otherwise mundane maintenance activities become touchstones for serious issues: utopia, justice, social cohesion, mobility, infrastructure, and labor. At a city- block scale, the sculpture, video, and photomontages in the exhibition reclaim public space through critical making techniques. The exhibition includes four sculptural and performative works: Deflators, a wall installation of metal debris meticulously gathered from Baltimore streets. Magneto, a device made for picking up such debris. BW3H, a broom that explores cohesive labor by requiring three bodies to operate it. And Chariot, an ad hoc motorized street sweeper. The video uuutopia shows close-quarter perspectives of a car wheel in continuous motion. And finally, Models for Greener Policing is a series of photomontages speculating fantasies of public service.