Pop City writes up Public Record in their innovation news section this week! It’s a great reminder that the gallery show was only the beginning of a piece that lasts in perpetuity; an ethereal installation haunting the streets of Pittsburgh.
In other news, this week marks the opening of The Howling Miller, a world premiere performance by Quantum Theater featuring sound design by Public Record audio wizard Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl. Check out the piece in the Post-Gazette today.
To any and all users of the iPhone Public Record system:
For this weekend (7/16/10-7/19/10) the iPhone will NOT automatically trigger Public Record’s poems when you enter a location’s proximity. Instead, that poem’s location marker will turn from red to green, and you can tap it to begin playback.
This is because of the unforeseen, and semi-hilarious, problem of the 937 Liberty gallery’s proximity to one of the locations – making it so that anyone using the iPhone in the gallery gets stuck in a loop of that piece’s playback. (In other words, it works too well…)
Tee hee…
Nice article in today’s Pittsburgh City Paper about Public Record, by new(ish) CP writer Jenelle Pifer. The online version – obviously the version you’ll see, oh blog-reader – includes Lisa Toboz’s wonderful photograph “Peace and Order of the Sabbath Day,” illustrating the PubRec poem of the same name. Check it out Friday night at the launch party and gallery opening!
A piece by the brilliant Brit artist Rod Dickinson based on the 1894 attempted bombing of the Greenwich Observatory, using recreated primary source material designed with the idea that the attack had succeeded. Not sure how I missed this before, but I’ll slide it under “inspirations” despite my late-to-the-party discovery, because Dickinson in general is a big influence on the thoughts behind Public Record. Beautiful.
I recently met one of the anonymous masked crusaders of the Howling Mob Society, a cadre of comrades dedicated to exploring and celebrating Pittsburgh’s deep history of labor unrest, and to reminding us all that this city was built by little-known men and women who created from its chaotic crucible the beginnings of America’s movement for progress in the workplace. HMS’s detailing of the Railway Strike of 1877 – with maps and historical markers – was one of the many local inspirations that led to Public Record being the way it is.
Pittsburgh new-theater group Bricolage is in the midst of its now-annual Midnight Radio series – doing live-performance radio-style dramas along the lines of X Minus One and other genre-drama material. And we’ve just confirmed a really exciting collaboration – with Tami Dixon and Jeff Carpenter from Bricolage creating a short dramatic interpretation of the Public Record poem “Devil a Knife I Had” for one of their interstitial pieces!
Midnight Radio runs at 9pm July 15, 16, and 17 at 937 Liberty Ave., first floor. (Public Record show runs July 16-24 on 937′s second floor – so, ya know.)
Public Record is the subject of this week’s Next Page feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a weekly guest-written Sunday feature. It includes a really fantastic original drawing by the P-G’s Stacy Innerst illustrating “Devil a Knife I Had.” Gotta love it.
