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SOME
ARTISTS WORKING WITH RUST-BELT
ISSUES:
UK:
Geoff
Weston, Pigeon
Loft
Photographic artist, has worked extensively on
NE issues. (A Pigeon Loft is for racing pigeons,
a traditional local working-class
hobby).
Mike
Golding
Photographer, has done work on new Japanese and
service industries.
Book
of the North
A group of writers and artists starting work on
a CD project.
Germany:
Emscherpark
in the Ruhr region, is a large trail
of
architectural works often using disused
industrial structures.
USA:
Michael
Moore
(Dog
Eat Dog Films)
The Mother of All rust-belters. Made the film
Roger and Me, about job losses in Flint,
Michigan. What can I say ... brilliant, funny
and painful. Now on TV with Video
Nation.
Tony
Buba
(Filmography)
Another quirky film-maker, out of Pittsburgh.
Made possibly the only musical ever about
Braddock (see my
photo of
Braddock).
Valerie
Clarkes's Big
Bar
Photos from the Torch Bar, Flint. One of the
few American bars that I've liked. I liked Val
too!
Exploring
Detroit's Abandoned
Spaces
Group of good installation/web
artists.
Heidelberg
Project
Tyree Guyton is an 'outsider' artist who does
amazing huge installations with junk in some of
Detroit's many empty buildings.
metahuman
technoboys from Pittsburgh with a sense of
humour/society. See the remote petting zoo, and
telematics work with prison inmates in Newcastle
(USA).
Nine-Mile
Run Project,
Pittsburgh. Art/Ecological project concerned
with reclaiming land post-heavy -industry. Good
links to other such projects.
Critical
Arts Ensemble
formerly(?) of Pittsburgh. I heard Steve Kurtz
of CAE say at a conference that as multinational
companies could now simply move around the world
is response to resistance, then the only valid
activism had to be telematics-based. Interesting
- but not sure I agree.
Row
House Project in
Houston reclaims abandoned houses for uses
including the artistic.
Sandy
Stone cyber-goddess,
linked here because her students at Uni of Texas
have in the past done artwork about Border
(US/Mexico) issues including
maquiladoras.
Clyde
Hare
Landscape photographer, Pittsburgh.
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ISSUES:
Globalization
From Below
Expand
the Debate on
Globalization
from Time magazine.
Focus:
HOPE Detroit
organisation/charity involving training,
childcare, some art projects etc.
(I
photographed there)
Coal
and Community Research at Sheffield Hallam
University
UK
Maquiladora
Information Links
ART
GALLERIES AND ORGANISATIONS:
UK:
Northern
Arts Region galleries/arts listings
Newcastle-upon
Tyne area: Museums what's on
Canada:
Artcite
Inc Windsor,
Ontario
USA:
Wayne
State
University
Art events. Detroit.
The
Detroit Institute of
Arts Big
gallery (with Diego Rivera murals).
Center
for Creative
Studies
Detroit art college.
Greater
Flint Arts Council
Arts
Foundation of Michigan
Carnegie
Mellon School of Art
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Filmmakers
Three
Rivers Arts
Festival
Pittsburgh
The
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh
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'International
Ironic Links'
Last updated Jan 03
