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 the architecture of 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. Each month from June 1 - September 30, 2019, one photograph will be placed in a rotating advertising display in the the Maine Mall Food Court. The photographs collectively reference death and dying, landscape, and the role that photography plays in mourning rituals.
Within the Highland Memorial Cemetery, the project will support artworks ranging from poetry and temporary sculpture 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 the architecture of 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. Each month from June 1 - September 30, 2019, one photograph will be placed in a rotating advertising display in the the Maine Mall Food Court. The photographs collectively reference death and dying, landscape, and the role that photography plays in mourning rituals.
Within the Highland Memorial Cemetery, the project will support artworks ranging from poetry and temporary sculpture 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