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About Me

"Shopplacing" is a collective of artistic inquirers who investigate relational understandings. It is an emerging concept from the dialogical understandings among artworks, written works, musings, and conversations of many artists, researchers, and scholars.Other artists/researchers/pedagogues are investigating relevant themes/issues/concepts. "Shopplacing" is used as a variant to "shoplifting." Shoplifting occurs when items are stolen from a place of commerce by an impersonating customer. Shopplacing, in contrast, occurs when a "shopplacer" generously "places" a voluntary constructed artifact in a specific context with the intent of it being received by a willing, and hopefully delighted recipient. This is done with intentions of good will, generosity, whimsy, inquiry, pedagogy, and to provide feedback for artistic inquirers. How does your artistic practice relate to shopplacing? Let Shopplacing know.I edited my profile with a little help from a generous friend

My Interests

Recycling discarded objects and turning them into new artifacts. Making clothing as art and "shopplacing" them in order to be discovered, worn, celebrated. Making new understandings as feedback from artists/researchers/teachers/learners (shopplacers) is made public (post in "comments" on this myspace page) in order to share understandings through a conversation.

I'd like to meet:

The following are artists, and/or, researchers, and/or, educators whose work impacts the project of SHOPPLACING. Dr. Rita Irwin atShepherd Fairey atOtto Von Busch atAm-I-Able Network for Mobile Responsive Environments at

Music:

How can musicians, audio artists, and story tellers participate in this project? Share your discoveries with Shopplacer.

Movies:

Filmakers and photographers are powerful storytellers. What are the possibilites in engaging participants in a generous, educational, and sensitively provoking/inquisitive way regarding these notions of shopplacing? Poets, check out the film "Elling" and the shopplaced underground poetry...

Television:

Turner Broadcasting System Inc. uses a guerilla marketing campaign to promote a television show and creates panic in Boston

Books:

Graeme Sullivan has created at least one artwork from a recycled book, which he placed in a public library to be discovered. Check out his website and imagine new possibilities with other shopplacers by sharing images or an account, description, or narrative of your own shopplacing.Dr. Graeme Sullivan at http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/a&hdept/arted/facult y/gs354/gs_works2.htm

Heroes:

Be your own hero and the hero of others by shopplacing your artifacts.Paul Curtis, aka Moose, who washes walls as street artLearning to Love You MoreAlso visit www.cracksinthepavement.com and...