Mary Ellen Caroll - Indestructible Language notes from the webinar

Q. Do you think, artists and architect think differently about the word permanence. ?? If a tree is 4000 years old, how can an object be limited, important to have material considerations. 
"We need to begin with our selfs but has to be in concert with other levels"

The importance of Language - Q - has you artwork been transferable across the language to ensure that there is no tension. 
A:- Glass of water - sytyic Irony, you hope that you spend the time to smear where you are and how and why you are doing it, so it isn't a faux pas because you haven't engaged or research. Tension needs to be managed, but intensity rather than tension because of mis-researched. Its got to be scorching, ​

 Sentience and connection while not othering

Connection of neighbourhoods that are under resourced, IN NO Public Utility 2.0 WFI in NO - found and created wifi on a different spectrum, so are now creating zoning so that people have accessible and linked to twitter.

In 1999, UCIrvine - Lecturer, Gertrude Stein and lectures of America, stuck in traffic back to LA and started to think about policy as material. 
Everything starts in writing and is stored as archive to develop. 

Prototype 180. - image above

Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Meret  Oppenhiem fountain in Bern. Fountain is never cleaned and the birds and the pioneers that drop the seed, the temple on top. The fountain is very interesting in the way it interacts with the space. 
Houston, TX Largest municipal that has no land use policy, market determine where things actually are.  2001 Mapped the city. Integration with the policy and the political process. Architecture being a political act. Houston based on real estate. 

Prototype revolution - removed house and used radio frequency and spectrum, looked and used HD cameras to give the perspective of the building - Exhibition - located in architectural context - Columbia University , included a policy timeline. The revolution, foundation was not stable and then building was unbuild 0 Daring unbuilt to artifiy the demolition  as a performance piece. 
Demolition is when sun is set. 

Ethnobotanic garden - that will now go in the space and work with £D printing to use construction waste to be used as the building material. 

Saved the waste and taking the waste from the old building and then rebuilding a skeleton. 
This commences next year.

DYKWTCA - Do you know where the children are _ immigration and lost children of migrants. Artists created works  and did an exhibition that travelled across the USA and all registered on the blockchain with random access sale to raise money for 4 Organization. This was match funded and therefore able to support more people crossing the border, from legal support, wellbeing. Terra Firma - RSVP - please respond. Metal and legal in the bronx but new global platform, Jessica - ready made architecture.

Its  green thinks nature in the dark - INDESTRUCTIBLE LANGUAGE on top of the old school house. Funded by MCM, Titos vodka, the turtle conservancy. 
Climate emergency will create turtles as female, originally placed by Donna Wingate and Johnathon stirnwell. _ Existential crisise ( 2006) 6 months, 100s of pages of spreadsheet.
Trademark fro Nothing - Activist committed to change .

Q:- Audience is transient,  did you have a target group to engage with this artwork.
"What does it do? Any work of Art - be that architecture, lit, film, music makes us aware of our own existence and our relationship to it "
​An emblem that can be used to engage conversation.
The impact on the artwork - it would be great to see how it resonates with different types of people and different surroundings. 
Evaluate, and metrics - increased conversation - in process until the new year. 

adJO _ Thoughts in response: 
This was my first encounter with Mary Ellen Caroll, I didnt feel an instant attraction, I wasn't drawn in and she reminds me of works that I have seen. Tracey Emin, neon, Michael Landy Shedded, Land Artists who have looked at urban regneration. 

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