Place Making: Installations at Hayes and Octavia
July 17 – November 20, 2011
Guest Curator:
Mariah Nielson
Location: Hayes and Octavia
This installation was sponsored by: envelopeA+D and Beronio Lumber, San Francisco.
Place Making: Installations at Hayes and Octavia is the third in the series of dynamic pop-up museums in various locations throughout San Francisco. Exploring the potential of impermanence, MCD was invited to be part of Hayes Valley’s innovative Proxy project, an evolving and temporary rotation of culture and commerce existing out of renovated shipping containers.
With three site-specific installations, the artists were motivated by themes of transparency, light or layering and responding to the site’s urban surroundings, developed distinct environment’s inspiring public interaction and engagement.
SF artist Andy Vogt opened up the exhibition with our first-ever Place Making event: a collaborative effort where MCD and the artist invited the public to work with him in building the installation. Provoking visitors to see value in reimagining how we perceive our material world, Vogt created a sculpted environment in a formerly vacant space using wood salvaged from construction sites.
Removing asphalt and rehabilitating soil to create a garden bed for planting, Jesse Schlesinger transformed the once barren city plot with a vibrant plant and sculpture installation. Public workshops and sculpting sessions offered a rare opportunity for community involvement in the evolution of the space and the overall installation.
TRILUX, designed by Future Cities Lab and artists Nataly Gattegno and Jason Kelly Johnson, is the final of three of our public art installations on view at Place Making. An experimental construction consisting of three vertical wooden lattice structures, visitors are encouraged to step into the woven interior and view the sky through one of the luminescent oculi at the top. A truly awe-inspiring and uniquely situated construct, TRILUX has served the community as a welcome space for social interaction and new ideas.
Photo: Nataly Gattegno and Jason Kelly Johnson, TRILUX, 2011. Photography: Adam Willis.
PHOTO GALLERY
Photo: Nataly Gattegno and Jason Kelly Johnson, TRILUX, 2011. Photography: Adam Willis.
ABOUT MCD’S POP-UPS
The Museum of Craft and Design was at a crossroads, requiring both a search for a long-term home and a short-term plan to meet our public mandate. Inspired by the current trend of pop-ups, MCD created a series of pop-up museum experiences that responded to the immediate need to continue offering exciting and innovative exhibitions and programs to the public.
The high vacancy rate in storefronts throughout San Francisco presented an opportunity to create small, temporary museum experiences in local neighborhoods. By focusing on educational and informative exhibitions, paired with dynamic programming, MCD reintroduced itself to San Francisco as a revitalizing organization and engaged new, local audiences by strategically selecting locations where San Franciscans lived, worked, and played.
