the VESTIGES Project: Works in Progress   1994, New Orleans, LA   "Works in Progress" consisted of three events held one evening at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. First was the premier of "A Year in VOTA", a video written and produced by Danella Hero chronicling the Boston/New Orleans collaborative exchange entitled "VESTIGES: Valorization of the Anonymous (VOTA)". Also premiering was "Tatters" a new work by performance artist Charlie Bishop accompanied by a video montage produced by the VESTIGES Project. Finally, there was the announcement of the "Honorary Votante Award" , a presentation by Andrei Codrescu to the winner of a public call for the best visual or literary art piece on Boston/New Orleans.

Participants:  Charlie Bishop, Joan Brigham, Kaye Canipe, Gerald Cannon, Andrei Codrescu, Judy Cooper, George Fifield, Jan Gilbert, Danella Hero, Debra Howell, Francis James, Sheldon Jones, Stella McGregor, Ross Miller, Tom Mims, Duke Reiter, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Bart Uchida, Tim Watson   Funded By : National Association of Artists Organization's "Multi-Site Collaborations Program" and the Pew Charitable Trust, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Art in Public Spaces Program of the National Endowment of the Arts

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