Drift: a tool for getting lost in familiar places
Finally launched and available in the iOS App Store! Drift helps you get lost in familiar places by guiding you on a walk using randomly assembled instructions. Each instruction will ask you to move in a specific direction and, using the compass, look for something normally hidden or unnoticed in our everyday experiences. As you [...]
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More Great News: We’re the Recipient of a Windsor Endowment for the Arts Grant!
We’re thrilled to announce this, and very flattered to be in such great local company!!! Honouring leaders in Windsor’s arts community, the Windsor Endowment for the Arts (WEA) will officially present the WEAs, winners of the WEA Arts Leadership Awards and WEA Arts Grants on Saturday, May 5 at Windsor Music Theatre. Ten recipients will [...]
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We Made the “2012 Sobey Art Award” Ontario Long List!
We’re really exited to post this … just found out today! We made the 2012 Sobey Art Award Ontario Long List! It’s incredibly flattering to have made it to this stage of the competition, and we owe a huge thanks to Srimoyee Mitra for the nomination. And, in case you didn’t know, we’re not the [...]
In Store: A Series of Documentary Shorts on SRSI
We’re incredibly excited to be able to post this trailer for the forthcoming series of documentary shorts, In Store, produced, directed, and edited by the astoundingly talented, Daragh Sankey!
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“Alive & Well” viewable on Google Maps
Our project for the 2011 Windsor Biennial, Alive & Well, was created with the hope that it would be captured on Google Maps to make a monument or announcement of sorts to the rest of the world about Windsor as we near the end of the year and ahead of being torn up for the new Aquatic [...]
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Towards a New Collectivity: A Declaration of Principles (for artists, cultural workers, & supporters thereof)
Above, some things I’ve been thinking about lately. It may or may not be useful to you, but feel free to share, post, tweet, email, photocopy, etc. with a larger image or pdf.
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HFBC Book Ready for you to Explore (& get a copy for your collection!)
Remember a couple of weeks ago, we received some copies of our How to Forget the Border Completely book? Well, there were a couple of print issues that have now been resolved, so if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on a copy, now’s the time! HFBC was an 8-month research project that looked [...]
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Cross-Border Communication: We’re In This Together
Last night we projected a message from Windsor to Detroit. It was a message we’ve been meaning to send for a while. We wanted Detroit to know that we know that, “We’re In This Together.” And we mean that, in every way. This message is part of a project that we started working on in [...]
The Brief
Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research collective and non-profit organization working to explore and unfold curiosities around locality, infrastructures, and creative practice leading towards civic change.
We work in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and abroad.
Notes
Steve Powers: Distilling Daily Stories into Incredible Street Art
Saw this video of a talk given by Steve Powers (who we’ve written about before) posted on Juxtapoz. Steve Powers (aka Espo) speaks about his art at the PSFK Conference NYC. Powers discusses his recent public and private art projects, along with explaining his one-a-day art “Daily Metaltation” pieces. Powers is one of our cover [...]
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Rethinking the Role & Site of Social Services: Mike Kelley’s Suburban Home at MOCAD
Image via Artlog Michelle and I visited this project when it first appeared at MOCAD back in 2010, and it’s incredible to see the next phase of this, just announced as a massive new addition to the project in Detroit that seems possibly not unlike Project Row Houses, but with a distinct Detroit feel. From [...]
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Hi, 5 with Luci Everett
About the Hi, 5 Interview Series Hi, 5 (5 Questions) is a web-only interview series which presents five questions to artists, activists, and creative thinkers alike. The project acts as an educational device which allows us to gain insight into the narratives that define successful individuals. We are interested in the motivations behind ambitious ideas and [...]
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New Project by DodoLab: The River and the Land Sustain You?
This is going to be an incredibly fun project! Our friends at DodoLab finally return to Windsor, make sure you check it out! A Project by Professor William Starling of DodoLab May 5 – June 9, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday May 5, 1-4pm AGW Talk/Tour: Sunday May 6, begins at 1pm DodoLab and SB Contemporary [...]
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The One and The Many, pg 7
As the history of modernism has repeatedly demonstrated, the greatest potential for transforming and re-energizing artistic practice is often realized precisely at those points where it’s established identity is most seriously at risk. -Grant Kester in The One and The Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
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Hi, 5 with Sandy Noble
About the Hi, 5 Interview Series Hi, 5 (5 Questions) is a web-only interview series which presents five questions to artists, activists, and creative thinkers alike. The project acts as an educational device which allows us to gain insight into the narratives that define successful individuals. We are interested in the motivations behind ambitious ideas and [...]
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In Store: Norman (DIY Surveillance)
An intimate portrait of Norman exploring DIY Surveillance during our Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation.
Hello new friend, some initial tests with our new vinyl cutter
We recently acquired a Graphtec CE5000-60 cutter and we’re already dreaming up a whole bunch of new projects to put it to use. It cuts up to 24″ vinyl rolls (though I’ve also seen it score and maybe even cut cardstock) and with the Illustrator plugin, its incredibly easy. Above, a test with some gold [...]
Drift: a tool for getting lost in familiar places
Finally launched and available in the iOS App Store! Drift helps you get lost in familiar places by guiding you on a walk using randomly assembled instructions. Each instruction will ask you to move in a specific direction and, using the compass, look for something normally hidden or unnoticed in our everyday experiences. As you [...]
IN STORE: THE DEPARTMENT
Another installation of In Store by Daragh Sankey covering some of the incredible work that happened as part of our SRSI project a couple of summers ago. Here’s the overview of this week’s segment on the Department of Unusual Certainties from Daragh: I basically shared an area with these guys. Like Sara French and of [...]
More Great News: We’re the Recipient of a Windsor Endowment for the Arts Grant!
We’re thrilled to announce this, and very flattered to be in such great local company!!! Honouring leaders in Windsor’s arts community, the Windsor Endowment for the Arts (WEA) will officially present the WEAs, winners of the WEA Arts Leadership Awards and WEA Arts Grants on Saturday, May 5 at Windsor Music Theatre. Ten recipients will [...]
We Made the “2012 Sobey Art Award” Ontario Long List!
We’re really exited to post this … just found out today! We made the 2012 Sobey Art Award Ontario Long List! It’s incredibly flattering to have made it to this stage of the competition, and we owe a huge thanks to Srimoyee Mitra for the nomination. And, in case you didn’t know, we’re not the [...]
New Exhibition: Unrest Everywhere (Tools for Playing with Halifax)
Just back from an incredible week installing at Eye Level Gallery for our show, Unrest Everywhere (tools for playing with Halifax), which runs until May 12, 2012. The show features a number of multiples and interactive works, all of which are yours for the taking and borrowing. The premise for the show was to create [...]
Everything I Wanted Is Right Here (street installation shot)
A little preview of our exhibition, Unrest Everywhere, up now at Eye Level Gallery. More shots of the process and install soon, hopefully over the weekend.
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