GOING INTO THE NEW YEAR - THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYSPACE PROJECT AND OTHER THINGS

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GOING INTO THE

NEW YEAR.
The Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project and other Things.

As I go into the new year I’m compelled to look back at accomplishments, I have had the ability to listen at some interesting conversations, meet interesting people, travel to spectacular spaces. What comes of it all. I will like to comment on two meeting that I went too recently that should lock it all in.

DR. HOLLIS
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·         Dr. Simon Hollis – made a presentation at the International Relations Department, University of the West Indies. His thesis examines the role of regional organizations and their Disaster Risk Management capacities. Dr. Hollis is a visiting research fellow at the institute of International Relations and a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish National Defence College.

What is interesting about Dr. Simon Hollis, is his interest in aesthetics, and how aesthetics can build resilience in coping with risk management. As I listened to these men speak at the table, Dr. Knight, was also present at the table. There was mentioned of Art, Museums, Heritage, Culture in a conversation of developing strong capabilities for survival.

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·         The other meeting was on Monday where I attended an ACTT meeting, held at National Carnival Commission, Grand Stand. Here was spelled out some of the gains that were accomplished in the budget, which in all estimates are good for the cultural sector, if we’re able to get them to roll out. These are,

1.   The creation of a National Arts Council

2.   The Creation of a Genius Grant ala MacArthur Foundation Grants

3.   The Commissioning of 44 (24 in the first year 20 in the 2^nd) Memoirs and Histories of aspects and personages from local culture eg the History of Dance, the History of Ramleela, etc as well as biographies of Sparrow, Kitch, Sundar etc.

4.   The regularization of the Land Tenure of all Panyards in the country.

 

·         The Presentation of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project – here we were able to present a radical new way of looking at how art and design can be presented in our communities. As one person told me, the project as in the Western art scenario, looks to deconstruct this project looks at reconstruction and the building of an attitude in the development of people.

These three meeting all seem to be looking at the whole-ism of our particular position and attempting to create a conversation around how development will happen

The creation of a National Arts Council, if rolled out properly will see the development of  all sector groups, proper transparency in funding, upgrading in training for sector groups, groups will be in a central location, which will allow for better communication (hoping). An Arts Council isn’t the hell bent solution, but it is a step where we can get an idea of conversation in the whole-ism of development and the creation of a better hell to live in.

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THE NEW YEAR WISH.

Man! Woman! Child!, culture is a buss, it gone to the dumps, it has fallen and the guardian who holding the swords must take acknowledgement that I have, we have, allowed it all to go to hell, due to our selfish, myopic, arrogant, low-self-esteem, ignorant, brown-nosing, attention grabbing, individualist pursuits, looking to get our individual concepts of art above all else, rather than the progressive development of art and design and in extension of our cultural development. I will like to see more synergy between people and groups. We need to foster hard to build capacity with people, the state, corporate sector, bring them to the understanding that local content will not kill advertising.

The wishes –

1.   I will like to see first the development of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project – which we hope will see data developed that we can start understanding how art and design and the memory concept can take shape in the imagination of our people.

2.   I will like to see the Art Society take a more political position considering their position as a vanguard position. The Art Society needs to take serious vocal position in art and the role it can play, the new roles, where it comes to social art and design. They also need to build synergy

3.   As the Department of Creative and  Festival Arts, UWI, acquire their new building. I hope there is a serious new conceptualization of the whole-ism of art and design, preparing our future artists for that new world, workshops, building artists who under synergy development, collaboration and the importance of a social consciousness.

4.   The Ministry of Culture to find the heart of culture and speak to it in the language that is needed for them to really represent and support the people who can re-position and construct new dynamism.

5.   The University of the West Indies, I will like to see them in the space with their new portal, where community can tap into and get a look at the research that is going on, at this point it is hard to get to read and download, reserch  

6.   The Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects – First they need to include artist, designers who are working in the social space to be part of their membership. Also they need to be more vocal about the landscape that is being shaped before us. There is a need for more conversation about design and the development of an architectural space either at UWI, which we believe can happen and maybe happening.

7.   The Planners – things are happening and the Planning Association, what up? Do stand up and be counted.

8.   Civil Society, need to build relationship with artists and design, in the development of a newer activist re-positioning. The Fire Circle is one situation that may take that into consideration let see what kind of data is thrown out.

9.   Finally I will like to see the Aripo Project a steady course – which the conceptualization of re-designing of the Aripo Village around Value Added, which will see art and design at the forefront of the development discourse.

10.               I will like to see Alice Yard, Studio 66, the galleries in a kind of ordering a talk about representation, art, design, festival etc

11.               I will like to see an artist’s dinner one of these days.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYSPACE PROJECT - GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL-POST PRESENTATION

THE LINK TO THE PDF
http://artzpub.com/sites/default/files/pdf/FINAL-V-7-Tacarigua_Playground_Catalog_Spreads_V7.pdf

THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL

 

PLAYSPACE PROJECT

FIRST ENCOUNTERS OF THE 4^TH KIND,

NEXT LEVEL RE-POSITION.
9 December 2014

I presented an idea with the help of a lot of friends; so we presented an idea, we have seen an emotive response and gotten nice taps on our backs. We have sat in a few meeting to solidify some of the enthusiasm that was show on FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, I got a call and met with them, sent in a proposal and we wait for the response of how it will all flow.

We must now develop our internal working infrastructure in the organization to support external income, pledging. Once this happens there will be a certain amount of responsibility on us to present what we said we can. Here, in the second phase of a project is where emotions getting to paper will run thin, voices will be high and low as you re-design, scratch, morph, evolve something into something again.

 

 

 

 

MARKETING STRATEGY 

There needs to be the Development of a marketing strategy that will see us developing other interest, both in the community and out of the community, there must also the need to open the international dialog, build synergies, where we can get a host of people voices into the conversation of social design. What this will look like? I'm not sure, it has already happened in the people who have partnered with the project and the other people, who will join in the conversation. I will like to see in the end a conversation with organizations, like the Institute of Architects of Trinidad and Tobago, the Planners, Civil Society groups. This afternoon, there will be a civil society meeting at UWI, Fire Circle, I'm guessing in this meeting there will be an open conversation which will bring up the topic of how women are treated in a society, which is hostile. How can we address this is through social design.

 

FLEXIBILTY OF THE PROJECT

As the year bends off into the tailing winds of the

Northern sky, opening the door for the roar of North-East blazing sun, I’m in the studio, the project has settled and there are whispers around, there are doubts, as one friend mentioned to me by some people about the project, I sit at times and wonder what is this doubt that people will have...

Over the time, my reservations has been supplicated by the clear understanding of project management, the project coordination will be utilizing a system called "PARTNERING" and the professional manner my colleagues express how this particular proto type project should unfold. Even at what capacity does a young group should embrace, we should understand limits, Sean understands this and has designed to suit how this particular project should evolve. So the project has been design with these characteristics in mind. We’re also very aware of the demands of people who invest in projects, expecting certain responses from the project. The amazing flexibility of the project where we can see something happening on the ground in 12 months :

ü  Landscaping

ü  Natural Berm

ü  Play Fence

ü  Lighting

ü  Design Seating

It is interesting how we develop groups in this new modernism, new groups must look at how they operate, develop new methods which understands new forms of leadership, new ways of keeping records, new ways of meeting; new ways of speaking in meetings. Dada, has this new opportunity to create new leadership models. I'm thinking off the top of my head and thinking that Alice Yard, is directed in that informal position, Studio66. 

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE

So as I sit in the studio and ponder the people that I have collaborated in developing not only this project, but other projects, my painting, the Aripo Project, just by listening, coming to the meeting, showing up means something, when ideas are concerned. This particular project has the ability to bring people to the table even if it is just curiosity, how it will pan out will be noted in the records. 

 

 

 

COLLABORATION

I'm glad when I call someone and they say, hey lets meet, we meet with a cup in hand and go over ideas, plans they share, things get shaped, the ideas as it was is now something else, a little more powerful, I might be perplexed that my concepts will have to be challenged, I have grown in the knowledge of collaborations protocols and what that truly means. Sharing concepts means, shedding the ego, put it away. I have learned, I have learned while kicking and fighting.

I have also learned to insist that this is my idea, there is a time when there must be control of that. Collaboration, like "Partnering", like Social Design, will involve a certain amount of loss of the individual or a higher understanding from the individual of how they will be needed to operate in the evolving science of social involvement with our individual artistic pursuit. Art for Art Sake; is a pejorative that we can't use, at this particular time, just as "Post Black" can't be used in Afro-American artistic parlance, as Ferguson, New York, the I CAN'T BREATH protest from celebrities to the burning and death of our young men by gun culture from there peers and police in Trinidad and Tobago, says that we must look at how aesthetics operate in this socially fragile state.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DEATH OF INDIVISUALISM

When it comes to social designing the artist becomes a conductor, placing the right people in the right place, allowing them to be who they are means the best for the project, it also means that the artist must adapt to a new way of seeing work move from one status to the other. There is the political and the integrity of the project, which must be protected in the name of the project not necessarily the artist. The project is alive, carrying within it something very potent and constructive, when placed with all its properties will have a voice, speaking for its the space and the people of that space. The people should in all humanity speak for the space, the project, they should grasp something deep within them, be moved to find that empowering emotive voice, as will when we see the horror of abuse to a child, if this does not happen, there is more work to be done.

 

 

 

So hear I’m, here we’re at the cusp of  something sweet, something abnormal in the brutality of a space, that at times I fear the political and social naivety of my country to embrace the full trajectory of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project.

A friend mentioned, she is concerned about process, I’m concerned also.

So there is a pledge sheet around somewhere or you can call 1-868-722-6153 if there is some contribution you’ll like to make.

 

 

 

 

 

this is the project coordination which we will be using for the project -
"Partnering is aimed at clarifying the stakeholders' expectation; and it ensures that the stakeholders develop a WIN-WIN relationship that discourages gain by one at the expense of the other. It also facilitated communication including the free exchange or sharing of pertinent data/information; maximizes teamwork and contributes enormously to achieving a successful project."

 

 

 

 

 

SPONSORSHIP 

There is no losers here, any involvement here is what I will call immersive branding, deep into the bowels of the community, working I hope alongside a project that will be built in stead with or in contribution with the community. Social design, art as other projects which imply those same tools, have something that needs recognition. This is the psychological empowering aspect of these types projects embraces in them. As it is a tool that see craft people walking away in a frame of mind that sees the greater possibilities of their hands, their minds. But these interventions can't be one off, it needs continuum and further development. the Heritage Cities project, development of space of other spaces around design protocols, which will have maintenance, social, economic responsibilities that will be laid down. The development of garden groups that will maintain the space in hand over; the garden group needs to be trained at Centeno maybe, the development of  structural watch group, the formation of play attendants, these are all possibilities.  

 

 

 

 

 

MAN YUH JUST HAVE TO SAY THANKS! AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH

 

Dean.