R.I.P.
A public art initiative funded by the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation
Video by Joel Tusi
Border Patrol is pleased to announce the launch of R.I.P., a public art initiative addressing the politics and aesthetics of grief.
Just as we used our former home in the State Theatre building to inform our programming, R.I.P. highlights the relationships among art, extinction, loss, grief, death, advertising, ceremony, and private property within the cemetery and the mall -- both semi-public, semi-private spaces. We see both sites as places for community gatherings, collective rituals, and public memorials.
R.I.P. will place artworks and stage performances at the Maine Mall and Highland Memorial Cemetery (both located in South Portland) during the second half of 2019. This five month long initiative is free and open to the public.
Within the Maine Mall, R.I.P. employs an advertising kiosk as a space to display photographs that reference death and dying and emphasize photography's role in mourning rituals. Within Highland Memorial Cemetery, the project will support artworks ranging from poetry to plants to movement-based works inspired by funerary processions. R.I.P. makes use of the architectural and aesthetic cues within both contexts to address forms of death--ecological, economic, linguistic--within contemporary American society.
Just as we used our former home in the State Theatre building to inform our programming, R.I.P. highlights the relationships among art, extinction, loss, grief, death, advertising, ceremony, and private property within the cemetery and the mall -- both semi-public, semi-private spaces. We see both sites as places for community gatherings, collective rituals, and public memorials.
R.I.P. will place artworks and stage performances at the Maine Mall and Highland Memorial Cemetery (both located in South Portland) during the second half of 2019. This five month long initiative is free and open to the public.
Within the Maine Mall, R.I.P. employs an advertising kiosk as a space to display photographs that reference death and dying and emphasize photography's role in mourning rituals. Within Highland Memorial Cemetery, the project will support artworks ranging from poetry to plants to movement-based works inspired by funerary processions. R.I.P. makes use of the architectural and aesthetic cues within both contexts to address forms of death--ecological, economic, linguistic--within contemporary American society.
Follow R.I.P on Instagram - @r_i_p_maine