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Prototype drawings of a house that moves

Colby had his nieces and nephew draw up some houses that move.
This will be the activity we will be hosting for the children at the Tenderloin Clubhouse and Tenderloin Neighbor Development Corporation's After School Program

Potentail organizations Cents collaborate with..Awesome!!!

The Group Out n About in The Loin'

Cents Project and Mission

Is there such a thing as a shared voice? And if so, to what extent is place an affectation of that?
Our passion for the phenomenological event as a deeply human and uniquely individual experience is our conceptual foundation, and our proposed activity is hinged on participatory involvement. If art is the sensuous embodiment of our shared experience, it is the revelatory aspect of it that we wish to stress.
By involving the community in a project in which its residents are both its progenitors and recipients, we will be galvanizing cultural expression.
We propose a mobile meeting point, from which postcards will be exchanged in response to dialogue with passers-by. The façade of the meeting place will be based on a combination of drawings made by local school children asked to depict “a house that moves”. On regular intervals throughout the duration of the exhibition, our group will set up the “house” at various unoccupied parking spots within the Tenderloin.By doing so, we hope to involve the authors (recipients), designers (school kids) and facilitators (artists) in an expository conversation about time and place.
The mobile house will serve as a place of exchange wherein participation generates it’s own documentation.The local children supply us with the motifs for the postcards (which will also be archived in a book)and, in a roundabout way, the design for the mobile house. From there, interactions with people on the
street will generate both ephemeral (conversational) and more resolute (written) exchanges revolving around the notions of home and personal connection. The project’s legacy will be when we (the artists)are notified of postal or personal interactions as a result of our sustained presence within the community.
As a communicative vehicle, the postcard simultaneously embodies the past, present and future, and is a device that enables a greater sense of global community. Structurally, the front picture of the postcard can represent the past; an idealized or stylized presentation of a specific time or place. The act of writing
a message on the postcard is the present; to the writer, it’s whatever is “happening now” that’s worth recording. Mailing the postcard represents the future; whoever wrote the postcard will have mailed it with the premonition of someone reading and (hopefully) enjoying it.
Through the postcards, drawings, and community outreach we hope to create a dialogue centered on the phrase: “home away from home”.