VESTIGES: Valorization of the Anonymous (VOTA)
1993, Boston, MA and New Orleans, LA
A year-long collaboration between two core groups of artists in Boston and New Orleans who interacted with each other individually and as a group to investigate sites that were unknown, overlooked or historically camouflaged, in order to question traditional and commonly accepted ideas of the spectacular.
The project included, courtesy of the Boston participants, the shipping of a one-ton table of ice within which were frozen various artifacts and other assorted gifts, from Boston to New Orleans where it melted in public view at the Contemporary Arts Center while being used to serve chilled raw oysters to the public. In return, the New Orleans participants boarded a plane with their own peculiar and distinctive "luggage", including suitcases filled with Mississippi River mud in which various artifacts and assorted objects were buried, and proceeded to have an interactive installation/exhibition at The Space in Boston.
Participants: Charlie Bishop, Joan Brigham, Andrei Codrescu, George Fifield, Jan Gilbert, Danella Hero, Debra Howell, Stella McGregor, Ross Miller, Duke Reiter, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Bart Uchida
Funded By : National Association of Artists Organization's "Multi-Site Collaborations Program" and the Pew Charitable Trust
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