| The Present Tense |

While children in the United States indulged in the ritual of trick or treating on October 31st, the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai China came to a close. Throughout its six-month run, 73.08 million visitors inhabited 5.28sq. Kilometers of space, which housed the creative imaginations of 246 countries and international organizations.  Alongside this closing, People in [...]

Lewis Gesner is an artist that has been creating surrogate performances on behalf of artists such as Boris Nieslony and Vassya Vassileva for several years. Implementing his work through People in Space was an intriguing experience, knowing that through his own practice, he often puts himself in the position that we were in. Lewis’ pieces [...]

Boston-based artist, Heather Kapplow had a special role with People in Space. She actively made herself available to offer her insight during the development stage of the project. This gave her a unique perspective, strengthening her performance concepts to be enacted at the World Expo. Kapplow’s pieces seemed to serve as premonitions of the chaos [...]

When asked why they made the decision to visit the World Expo, the majority of the people that People In Space met answered that they wanted to experience the “spectacle”. Infinite lights, color, sound, copious space, the abundance of Haibao, the Expo’s absurd “imaginary” mascot made the expo, indeed, spectacular. The surrogate performances that People [...]

Boston- based artist, Jeff Huckleberry uses the phrase “Success in Failure” to define his practice. This idea has always resonated with me because it gives integrity to chance and haunted me while trying to implement surrogate pieces at the World Expo.   Some of the actions that we curated into “What Are We Waiting For?” [...]

People in Space has been on site at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai for the past week implementing surrogate creative actions.  We have had an audience of several thousand people experiencing ephemeral art in a largely ephemeral space. The expo as a whole is crawling with people; the majority are Chinese who are interested [...]

In 6 days I will be on ground in Shanghai as part of the People In Space project. We will be venturing into the 2010 World Expo in an attempt to bridge the participation gap between the US and the rest of the planet. Approximately 375,000 people attend the Expo each day. Many of these [...]