1,095: One Year's Worth of Other People's Plates
LACMA Digital Commission
Part of Fallen Fruit’s “Let Them Eat LACMA” on Sunday November 7th, 2010, 11 - 7pm
NEED: Dinner plates – unbroken, any style, standard dinner plate size, any material from ceramic to plastic
QUANTITY NEEDED: 1,095
DEADLINE for pick up or drop off donations: November 5, 2010
TO DONATE and schedule a pick up or drop off EMAIL: [email protected]
CALL FOR PLATES:
LA artist Bari Ziperstein invites the public to contribute their dinner plates to “1,095: One Years Worth of Other People's Plates”—a large-scale, temporary, site-specific ceramic plate mandala—and to have their plates participate in this one day public collection.
For every plate you donate, you can pick out a new commemorative “1,095” plate during the November 7th “Let Them Eat LACMA” event. Present your plate donation receipt to pick out your new collection of dinnerware in the amount of your donation. Plate donations are also accepted the day of the event and likewise eligible for exchange. Ziperstein is collecting plates up till November 5 for a one-day event at LACMA on November 7. Plates will only be collected by the artist or dropped off at her Glassell Park studio not at LACMA. Plates can be donated the day of the event at LACMA, but not before.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
“1,095: One Year's Worth of Other People's Plates” is a continuation of Bari Ziperstein’s on-going investigation of the architectural and design history of Los Angeles and the effect of consumerism and collecting on the urban landscape. This project incorporates Ziperstein’s idiosyncratic process of reassembling and transforming functional domestic objects, utilizing her dexterity with materials to create an interactive three-dimensional installation of one years worth of other people’s ceramic plates (3 meals a day x 365 days = 1,095 plates) in the shape of a mandala. Collected via social networking, each plate will have a commemorative sticker on the back marking the plate’s participation. Ziperstein will build and place the ceramic mandala from the collected plates over the course of four hours (11am – 3pm) in the Art of America lobby at LACMA. Over the course of four hours, the mandala will fluctuate drastically and in unexpected ways with the acquisition of incoming plates and the distribution of collected plates. Part swap meet part sculpture, this one-day collection of plates will be redistributed back to museum visitors or donated to a local thrift store if leftovers remain.
Special thanks to Fallen Fruit, Liz Anderson of Department of Graphic Sciences, and Justin Lebanowski.
@LACMA digital commission
@LACMA is a series of ongoing digital commissions from artists interested in collaborating with the museum on creative projects that use mobile technology to deliver art outside the museum walls.
Taking as her inspiration the thaumatrope, a "persistence of vision" toy popular during the 19th century, Bari Ziperstein has altered and juxtaposed photographic images from the exhibition Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915.
Thaumatropes often included riddles or lines of poetry, and Ziperstein has collaborated with writer Justin Lebonowski. Ziperstein, who works with photography, collage, and sculpture, draws attention to the way various built environments, ranging from architectural to consumer-oriented constructions, relate to desire and aspiration. She creates site-specific sculptures, ceramics and photographs that challenge viewers to discern the familiar from the strange and to question psychological, economical and emotional attachments consumers have to objects.
She says, "Through this combination, I am able to create sculptures and photographs that waver between the fantastically absurdist and the comfortably commonplace."
Artwork by Bari Ziperstein. Riddle by Justin Lebanowski.
Click here to view the thaumatrope http://www.lacma.org/art/images/exhibitions/Ziperstein.gif - and other digital commissions on LACMA's website.- http://www.lacma.org/art/ArtistsRespond.aspx#bz
Special thanks to Amy Heibel, Justin Lebanowski, Carmen Argote and Craig Kirk.
