In the picture below, my friend and I blew up balloons and put them in a store. We went in, popped some, laughed a little, said thanks, and went on to the next one. This was a really good intro to our next hour or so we spent at Kensington. We participated and became children again.
Another installation I need to tell you about was the "What I meant to tell you". A cozy room was set up outside in a tent and the idea was to pick up the phone and tell the person on phone something confessional or just chit chat. I had a close to 10 minute discussion with someone about the idea of this installation being art. She believed that it wasn't and I believed that it was. The concept of this telephone confessional / art-not art discussion, got even more interesting when I found out that the person I was talking to was in a tent across the street. Again, this installation was highly participational and the concept was appealing to me because it dealt with the idea of a telling someone a secret or confession. I am Catholic and this concept has been drilled into my head. I also found it intriguing how eager participants were to connect with other people. This kind of reminds me of the installation at Justina Barnicke Gallery and the idea of connecting and disconnecting. Conversations with people, whether we know them or not can elicit all types of emotions and can effect how and what we say to one another.
Sorry some of my pics are sideways... its a good time to remind you to stretch your neck, arms and shoulders when viewing or working at the computer for long lengths of time!
Some other things we participated in were writing a letter to a tree, watching a wall painter, writing on a car to support more bike lanes in the city, "the Portrait Party" - I liked this one alot.
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