Confluence Project 2011

In Residence: March 23 – May 6, 2011 Exhibition: Opens Friday, May 6, 2011, at MCA Denver,continues through May 29, 2011 in the Fox Family Idea Box at MCA DenverYouth: Confluence Project*: ArtLab + TeCoIn the Spring of 2011 ArtLab will be working with PlatteForum’s Creative Resident, Daniele Pario Perra as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art’s TECO program for the second annual Confluence Project.  TheConfluence Project: PlatteForum Artist Residency + MCA Denver is a shared Artist-in-Residence program between PlatteForum and MCA Denver.  Creative Resident Daniele Perra will create new work and lead workshops with teens from PlatteForum's ArtLab and MCA Denver's Teen Council. The artist and students' works will be exhibited in the Fox Family Idea Box at MCA Denver. This residency is the second annual collaborative project with the two organizations along with the support from the Anthropology Department at the University of Denver.Daniele Pario Perra is a relational artist*, researcher and designer engaged in exhibitions, research projects and teaching. His work ranges across different disciplines: art, design, sociology, anthropology, architecture and geopolitics. For some years now he has been exploring spontaneous creativity, cultural trends and patterns of urban development in a constant relationship between material culture and symbolic heritage. He investigated spontaneous communication in various European cities with the “Fresco Removals” format, teaching people, in real urban actions, how to store notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation.ArtLab and TeCo students will study the process of graffiti along with spontaneous communication throughout the world, understanding the politics and rhetoric of written communication/graffiti in the city.  The students will follow the format Daniele has used in various European cities.  Daniele uses the “Fresco Removal” process as an example of how to preserve notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation.  Students will interact with their community as well as go through the entire fresco removal process with Daniele.  The work culminates with an opening at the MCA Denver on May 6th, 2011 with the students' and Daniele's work shown side by side.*Relational Art is an emerging movement in art identified by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French philosopher, who recognized a growing number of contemporary artists used performative and interactive techniques that rely on the responses of others: pedestrians, shoppers, browsers—the casual observer-turned-participant.