Thank You for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day (Wearable Sculpture) by Agata Olek / Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN, New York City / 20091010.10D.55342.P1.L1.SQ / SML

Thank You for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day is a performance piece by Agata Olek (Facebook / Flickr / Portfolio) created for Art in Odd Places:SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

 

Curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam

Director of AIOP: Ed Woodham

 

Artist Statement

"Inspired by a uniformed attendant holding the sign Hold the Handrail in a Taipei metro station, I've created this moving installation/performance piece. In wearable sculptures of multicolored crocheted camouflage, my performers appear in various sites on 14th Street, displaying photographs of signs I've collected from different countries that are in emphatic, ironic or amused dialogue with their location."

 

See also video by Technology Artist filmed on the same day at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXrKQVwPU

 

More information about the festival

+ www.artinoddplaces.org

 

Press

+ Timeout New York: Fall Preview 2009

+ Timeout New York: Own this City

+ New York Times: Spare Times

 

Related SML Univese

+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group) (FriendFeed / Twitter)

+ SML Flickr Collections: Art + Artists

+ SML Pro Blog: Art

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