NUMBER
14 • #1 • 10 • 100 • 3.14 • 69 • 99 • 212 • 718 • 7eleven • 9/11 • 911 • 3/11 • 24/7 • 365 • 10-4 • 13 • 666 • 1492 • 1776 • 1857 • 1968 • 1984 • 1989 • 12/21/2012 • 47% • 99% • 1% • 0 • ∞ • 2013
AiOP’s ninth annual public art and performance festival will take place October 11-20, 2013 along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in NYC. This year’s theme is NUMBER.
A Note from the Curator
Numbers are shape shifters. Disciplined yet volatile, precise yet electric, singular yet collective, iconic yet generic, transparent yet slippery, cool yet momentous, restrictive yet buoyant. Transforming continually, they populate our daily life, clicking, ticking, cajoling, chastising, pressing and promising. From bank balances to checks and balances, votes to foreclosures, inflation to recession, pin numbers to alien registration numbers, rush hour to happy hour, statistics to demographics, lotteries to lucky numbers, dates to duties, they demand our continual attention, molding the experience of our everyday.
How can artists respond to the numerologies of our time? In proposing Number as the theme for Art in Odd Places this year, I invited artists to transform this seemingly bloodless technology of representation into an active zone of experience. AiOP’s own embedded numerical reference played no small part here: its invitation to scout the urban landscape not only for the quirky, unexpected or weird but also for the thrill in the extra, the leftover, the incomplete, the odd.
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AiOP Critical Mass
Saturday, October 12, 1 - 5pm
Between Sixth and Eighth Avenues
AiOP Critical Mass
Saturday, October 19, 1 - 5pm
Between Avenue A and Second Avenue
Featuring a selection of artists projects in an intense AiOP experience!
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