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///// Side Street Projects is temporarily located in a vacant lot in-between Church’s Fried Chicken & an abandoned victorian house that is slated for development. Our lot is 25,000 sq ft and has some wonderful features including a foundation of an old barbershop.

During our residency, we are hosting 4 on-site artistprojects annually that engage our community & incorporate into our free weekly Saturday community programming, Saturdays@SideSTREET, 11am-1pm.

For more info or to submit a proposal email: info(at)sidestreet(dot)org

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ON-SITE NOW–>

UPCOMING/PRESENT ONSITE

ARTIST PROJECTS 

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COMING THIS FALL…

Side Street Projects will host the 2^nd residency of the collaborative artist group, Summercamp’s ProjectProject.The group will facilitate a collaborative site-specific installation that references themes of home/hospitality with a forest like secret garden aesthetic. During different parts of the larger site-specific installation we will host 4 events throughout the project that take advantage of different times of the day. 

More details to come!

For more info visit:

http://summercampprojectproject.blogspot.com/

 

 

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–>PAST ARTIST PROJECTS

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NEWTOWN & SIDE STREET PRESENT:

UNTAMED (PARKING) SPACES

       Lisa Mann – Tentnology 2.0

Inside her illuminated tent, a blogging camper has brought along the technological comforts of home: cell phone, digital notepad, and laptop.  A portable cell tower disguised as an evergreen tree provides a 5-bar signal and a generator recharges all batteries. Projections of U.S. National Parks sprout “stealth” cell towers. The campsite is complete with a flickering, virtual campfire.

Purgatory Arts – Recollect

The afterlife, solitude, peacefulness, the passage of time.  A physical representation of a fictional character’s memories and feelings that evoke Nostalgia in the viewer.

       Theresia Rosa Kleeman – Allegory of the Tipi

An appropriation of Plato’s Cave Analogy; an ephemeral nomadic structure where the viewer is not bound by chains but rather free to move around.  Shadows dance around on the exterior while within the source of the illusion is blatant and the magic is revealed collapsing the spectacle to a mere trick.  The illusion falls apart and the magic is lost.

       Nicholas Fedak II – Wedding Bell Blues

The past is yet to come!  An installation about memory and the evanescent, ethereal, and intangible past. A ‘floating’ disintegrating wedding dress and wedding tuxedo hang in the doorway to welcome visitors inside a private dream world through visual and olfactory bombardment. Once inside, each person is free to discover their own personal memory of the familiar.

Kira Vollman – Do Not Enter

            An explosion of broken signs, Frankensteined dead-ends, dripping blood red off-limits and scattered reminiscences of forbidden locations.  A metaphorical hysterectomy that blocks the audience from taking a necessary path in life and evokes a jarring sensation through auditory and visual perception.

Margaret Adachi – House of Cards

Life spins out of control. Events can seem to happen in random yet fateful patterns. House of Cards presents the viewer with a choice: to play the hand you’re dealt or change the game.

This show was made possible by in part by the Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.  NewTown is also funded by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. And NewTown Memberships.

 

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H(AIR): Lisa Mann’s Inflated Whimsical Installation

Artist Lisa Mann’s inflated, whimsical sculpture celebrates hair, culture, and identity in the past, present Northwest Pasadena. Refreshments from Whole Foods Arroyo. Performance by local musician. The sculptural installation will debut during Pasadena’s ArtNIGHT Oct 14th and a series of kids’ workshops will be offered. in conjunction with the project which is funded in part by the Pasadena Arts and Cultural Commission and City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division. 

 

The projections will incorporate faces of people who now live in the Northwest community, reframing and relocating them within a cultural and historical period spanning the the 1950s through mid-2000s, using popular hairstyles from each period to provide a context.

*Inflatables hand fabricated by the marvelous “InflataBill” – For more info visit http://inflatabill.com/

 

 

A Public Art Project by Survey West Collaborative:

This House has a Bright Future

Exhibition dates:May 20 – June 24, 10am -5pm M-F

Survey West Collaborative engages architecture and site symbolically as they collapse past, present and future in their large-scale outdoor installation, This House has a Bright Future. Engaging the metaphoric potential of Side Street Projects’ current headquarters in Pasadena, SWC will build a monumental, temporary, site-specific piece.

SWC’s installation will sit atop one of the on-site foundational ruins that include a neighborhood barbershop, an apartment building, and Maitza’s taquería. The site also boasts the Decker House, one of the oldest Victorian houses in Pasadena, now boarded-up, weathered and ghostly, yet protected for its historical significance. Each of these buildings, except for the Victorian relic, was torn down to make way for the Heritage Square Development; a project intended to revitalize the area. Neighborhood concerns threatened the development and the project came to a halt as the economic crisis made breaking the impasse impossible. An eyesore of a vacant lot remained and Side Street Projects, a completely mobile, artist-run nonprofit organization, moved in and transformed the space through education outreach and artist services.

The duo will represent the future through six sets of brightly painted scaffolding that form a new floor plan for the viewer to enter. This representation of the future will physically embrace its own past as Victorian embellishments, barbershop stripes, Maitza’s horseshoes, and local children’s portraits and ghost stories fill the structure’s grid-system. Here, shifting perspectives on need, success and desire will come into one dynamic vision as distinct moments in time become veils, screens and windows to another.

For more info visit: http://www.surveywestcollaborative.com/

 

 

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WALL TO WALL

A video installation/performance by Daphna Lapidot

Daphna Lapidot, visual artist, will present her new work “Wall to Wall”, a video installation and performance that explores the themes of motherhood/domesticity.It is a reflection on the issues that women encounter as new mothers inundated with the perpetual daily routine. Thank you to the Pasadena Department of Cultural Affairs.

4 Days in April 2011

 

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Pulse & Parcel: A Continuing Exhibition & Community Engagement

Presented by Artist Jamie Crooke February 5 – March 18, 2011 

The project “Pulse and Parcel” aims to create awareness of the space we live within and share with others. Through community participation and investigation, we will explore ways of dividing up space, creating community, and policy planning towards an imagined alternative future. Using the tools of Urban Planners, Policy Makers and Citizens, we will practice ways of engaging with the land around us in a democratic way, with a goal of creating conscientious citizens that engage in their community. You can participate in the project in person (dates below), online (www.GLADPAP.us) or by phone (#). All on-site activities are designed for persons of varying age, ability and art know-how.

 

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Driven by What’s Inside

An Outdoor Performance and Cinema Event at Side Street Projects Details: DRIVEN BY WHAT’S INSIDE October 2, 2010, 7-9pm Inspired by 10-day-long traffic jams in China, devastating oil spills in the gulf, the “end” of the Iraq war, and fatal off-road races in the Mojave desert, Driven by What’s Inside is an outdoor performance and cinema event that reconsiders the role of the automobile in contemporary society. The evening brings together recent performance and video work by Vera Brunner-Sung, Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Alexa Gerrity, Joseph Imhauser, Noah Klersfeld, Julie Lequin, Benjamin Love, Susan Mogul, and Carlin Wing. These artworks undermine the banality and brutality of the automobile by any means possible whether through psychedelic road-tripping, FM radio talk-shows, or love songs. Artist Elana Mann presents Driven by What’s Inside as a way to deepen explorations in her own work related to cars, driving, and war. This event is the second in a new series for Mann, in which she will be attempting to redress her grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan Project by creating a “peace bomb” with other artists. Drive-in, walk-in, cycle-in, but bring a blanket, folding chair or seatbelt, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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These projects are made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission & the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.

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