BUREAU OF CHANGE | Social Services (P.S. Prospect)
We are what we see.
New Orleans, public art, institutional critique, education, civil rights, social justice, human rights, higher education, social practice, research based art, digital media, BUREAU of CHANGE, Margot Herster, documentary, New Orleans, collaborative media, social media, art, activism, photography, interactive, social media, Margot Herster, Margot Hester, Margaret, Herster, Hester, education not guaranteed, Louisiana
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BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services (P.S. Prospect)

November 18, 2017 – ongoing

Set against a backdrop of simmering international criticism of art festivals and biennials,  BUREAU of CHANGE will present a new installation in our evolving series Social Services. Seen from the street, Social Services (P.S. Prospect) aims to turn topsy turvy who we consider artists, art stars and prospects.

Social Services (P.S. Prospect) considers expanded access to the art world’s images, personalities and statements brought by social technology, as well as the creative tools available to outsiders and amateurs and  to communicate with niche or mass audiences. Layers of text pose questions about the role of artists and their institutions—small to large, shoestring to rich, obscure to “famous”—as mediators or arbiters of history, culture and conflict.

Installed at US|IS, a series of false storefronts that act as containers for integrating art into the street life of the city, Social Services generates its own records. Visitors reflexively respond to selfie-ready mirrored windows and photograph their own acts of observing to post to social media.

By design and resulting from its interactive, participatory qualities, BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services is an ongoing project. It has exhibited continuously since October 2014. Previous versions of the installation focused “revelry” as defined by New Orleans imagemakers, as well as trauma, violence and bystander effects.

 

 

 

 

 

441 Gravier Street at Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA  70130