SHADOWS WITH NO CAPITAL: IS THIS HOME?

“Shadows with No Capital: Is This Home?” will be a nighttime public art event held to conclude the Twin Cities’ visit of two luminous, travelling puppet explorers from across the world! Art work created by a group of Pillsbury House youth during a three-month collaboration with Minneapolis Arts on Wheels (MAW) will welcome them to the Powderhorn and Central neighborhoods.

This event will begin at the Pillsbury House with a community barbeque. This will be the start point of a giant puppet procession to the projection site-where the youth’s creative art work about their community and their ideas of “home” will be shared. The art work will integrate shadow puppetry, poetry, and stop motion video. All community members are invited to participate!

This FREE community art event will be held on Sat. May 8th, 2010 rain or shine.

Times & Locations:

7:30pm -Community Barbeque at the Pillsbury House

8:30pm -Begin puppet procession to Projection Site

9:00pm -Presentation by the Youth P.A.C. (Projection Art Crew) at 34th St and Elliot Ave. S.

MAW Ambassadors: Andrea Steudel, Sinan Goknur.

MAW Artists in Residence: Bart Buch and Kyle Loven

Guest Artists: Anton Jones, Peter Haakon Thompson, Pramila Vasudevan, Katrina Dikkers.

This project is made possible by funds from the Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization (CANDO) and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA).

Pillsbury House

3501 Chicago Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55407

612.824.0708

www.puc-mn.org

Youth P.A.C Stop Motion Expeditions

REVEALING CENTRAL...

On Tuesday April 13, artist Peter Haakon Thompson led a photography project with youth loosly based on a project created by his friend and artist Harrell Fletcher.

The basic format was having youth walk through the neighborhood collecting stop-motion images of things they found interesting, or things that people had told them in previous interviews with neighborhood residents. The youth worked with digital cameras and tripods collecting stop-motion shots of objects, locations, people, landmarks, animals, and anything that caught their eyes. They used their hands to slowly reveal the images they wanted to highlight.

Back in the artlab, Andrea patched them together to create beautiful short movies. We hope to post them soon. This project was super fun and really had the PAC engaged in the creative process.

April 6th & 9th - Mapping Portraits + Neighborhood Interviews

This week we continued to work with mapping systems and the live-draw software. Andrea and Sinan helped take portraits of youth and they created a digital wall map, using their faces to mark their homes on the grid. We talked about place, home, and asked them to describe what they see and hear when standing in their front door.

On April 9th, the P.A.C. broke into three groups with the artists and staff. The group assignment was to have youth conduct neighborhood interviews of residents. We collected 20 one-on-one interviews of our immediate neighbors by walking the streets of Central and Powderhorn neighborhood.

During the interviews the youth asked people where they live, where they were born, where they call home, how long they have lived here, if they know their neighbors, and what was their favorite and least favorite thing about their neighborhood. The youth also took portraits of the community members they met.

It was so great to see the youth break out of their shells and connect with people on the streets. Almost everyone we approached agreed to be interviewed. The youth loved this activity and really got into the interview process.

Here is a short stop-motion video that shares some of the photos and answers of the Youth P.A.C.'s neighbors.

Projection in Dance Studio: 04/06

West Bank Social Center workshops

Early on in the workshop process we visited the West Bank Social Center where Andrea helped us create a layered digital garden. This process was a great introduction to the "live-draw" software being used throughout the project.


Youth created their favorite fruits and vegetables which were animated and transposed to the digital mural. Later they created a whole colony of insects and birds to play in the moving landscape.