Ilana Spector and Mark Grieve
Recorded
December 8, 2020
Archived
December 8, 2020
52:45 minutes
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Id:
mby020257
Description
Creative partners Ilana Spector [no age given] and Mark Grieve (55) talk about the peaceful protest of Burning Man that they orchestrated in 2008, which called community into conversation around the event and what it stands for. The two also talk about the impact the peaceful protest has had on their lives and in their artistic practices.Subject Log / Time Code
MG talks about working with IS in the public arts field for the past 15 or so years and “an exercise in democracy for 500 bucks”, peaceful protest for Burning Man.
MG talks about picketing the particular event, found that to be very “American” which was the theme of the event.
MG talks about the various signs that they used in their peaceful protest and what the signs said.
MG talks about the importance of irony and humor in their artistic work and in the peaceful protest.
IS talks about some of the things they were trying to bring awareness about by doing their peaceful protest, including transparency in the grant writing protest.
MG talks about the people who “got it” and the people who “didn’t get it”.
MG talks about when the officers finally found a place to put them for their protest, by creating a “freedom of speech” zone, and Texas the one officer who wasn’t in agreement with this plan.
MG and IS talks about the response from other people towards their protest.
MG talks about public art and how doing this peaceful protest affects and inspires their work to this day, and IS talks about being radically engaged and what radical love looks like within this protest.
MG talks about what he hoped the protest would accomplish.
IS talks about some of the impact that the protest has had.
Participants
- Ilana Spector
- Mark Grieve