April 2010
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Watchvia Pink Line Project:
Andrew Wodzianski joined Salon Contra this week from his 100 square feet pop-up living space in a storefront on U Street via Skype this week. At the Salon, artist Kathryn Cornelius explored with Andrew questions about the distance between reality and fiction and what it means to be a performance artist on public display.
You can watch Andrew go about his mundane life...
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holla at us on foursquare
In the interest of experimentation and social networking, we’ve added foursquare functionality to all of the pop-up spaces. foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. When you visit one of our spaces, check in to foursquare and text your impression of the space. Team LIVE Team WORK Team PLAY Team CREATE Team...
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Status Update: Team Live
Team LIVE’s artist in residence, Andrew Wodzianski, is living in his pop-up space in a performance piece named POP-UP LIVING. Andrew is broadcasting his trials and tribulations during the two week residency on Ustream. Come by the space during his performance hours: Monday, April 19 3:00 PM > Tuesday, April 20 11:10 AM Tuesday, April 20 8:30 PM > Wednesday, April 21 6:30...
Artist Andrew Wodzianski will be living in his... →
And they're UP!
Whew - the project teams put in some hard work and long hours over the past couple of weeks and the fruits of their labor have popped up in a neighborhood near you. Check’em out:
Connect | 250 K Street NE (in the Loree Grand)
Live | 1318 U Street NW
Play | 2121 Crystal Drive (in the park out front)
Work | 1929 12th Street NW (in the Moderno)
Team Create’s space is making...
March 2010
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Pop-Up Gala Kick-Off Cocktail Party
This past Thursday we had a cocktail party to celebrate the five teams who have been developing the pop-up art spaces that will be displayed around the city beginning in mid-April. The kick-off party was in the new addition to the H Street neighborhood’s art scene - Industry Gallery (right above Conner Contemporary).
Walking from the Metro, rain beginning to fall and the wind whipping dirt...
Guest post: Anne L. Corbett, CuDC Executive...
On Wednesday our five pop-up teams came to Flashpoint to tell us about their projects. I heard someone say “the mead theatre lab looks like developer architect prom!” But seriously, how cool was it to see everyone come out to present their concepts to one another and get feedback. Everyone has really embraced this project and all of the ideas are fabulous yet radically different. Here’s a taste:
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Meet Team PLAY
Here are the members of the Pop-Up Gala’s fifth and final group: Team PLAY
Team PLAY is made up of Developer Vornado, Architects VOA Associates, and Artist Gediyon Kifle.
Keep checking back for more information on all of our groups!
Meet Team CONNECT
Cohen Companies is the developer for our fourth Pop-Up Gala group, Team CONNECT.
The architect behind this group is CORE Architecture + Design (Fun fact: These guys are also responsible for the architecture of Georgetown Cupcake)
And last but not least, Jefferson Pinder is Team CONNECT’s artist member. Jefferson was featured in the Washington Post this year and you can check out...
Meet Team WORK
Lakritz Adler, Sorg Architects, and Edgar Endress are the creative masterminds behind Team WORK. Keep checking in as we follow their progress along with the other Pop-Up Gala teams.
Meet Team CREATE
Hello! My name is Rachel Luciani and I’m going to be your Pop-Up Gala “tour guide” from here on out. As a newcomer to the DC area (2 months down and going strong), I’ll be relaying information about this project - and the artists, architects and developers involved - to you as I learn about it myself. Regardless of your current relationship with DC’s creative community,...
February 2010
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Meet Team Live
Each pop-up space will be created by a team - an artist, architect and developer - that will respond to a key word - live, work, play, create. Team Live has officially kicked-off, meet the players:
developer The JBG Companies
architect Studios Architecture artist Andrew Wodzianski
What is a Pop-Up Gala?
Hi. My name is Merin. I plan Cultural Development Corporation’s events, namely, our annual gala. Sitting through an annual gala can be quite dull (not to mention planning it), and boring is not our MO. So this year, we are doing what we do best – getting creative.
We make space for art. Vague, right? What exactly does that mean? And what is this art space anyway?
All good questions. This year we...