JR Artist, Inside Out Project: Reclaiming Education

Reclaiming Education

An Inside Out Project Group Action

For our class final, Prof. Bullock orchestrated a collaboration between JR Artist's Inside Out Project! Not only did we learn the history of graffiti and street art from books but we actually got first hand experience of what it feels like to post art on the street. Granted the work was legal but that didn't happen till the last few days of the class. For awhile there, we thought the project might have been done the old fashion way, by sneak attack.. but ultimately the great wall became available at Space 4 Art in San Diego! This class was absolutely one of the best classes I've taken at UCSD, both in terms of content and in the way it was taught!

Info about the project:

3 August 2013, Noon
Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., San Diego, California 92101

Inspired by Street Art and itʼs capacity to make a difference, UC San Diego’s first ever Graffiti & Street Art class, taught by Lara Bullock, has decided to get together to speak out about something we care about. Inspired by JRʼs Inside Out Project and its capacity to effect real change, we decided to participate in an Inside Out Project Group Action entitled Reclaiming Education. As college students, we recognize our privileged position, as most people in the US and the world cannot afford a post-secondary education. We would like to acknowledge this inequity and also point to some other issues that stand in
the way of making this education available to all.

Reclaiming Education is meant to draw attention to the deficiencies of a UC education and what we feel are misplaced priorities in the allocation of resources by the Californian government. Especially apparent is the prioritization of the over-crowded prison system and the military over the educational system. As students, we feel the effects of the accumulation of debt for a degree that is becoming increasingly irrelevant in today’s economy, as it guarantees nothing. Yet, at the same time we realize our privilege in being able to take out the loans to get this education, as there are many others for whom this is merely a pipedream. Together our faces represent a rupture, the reality of the spectacle of education.

View pictures: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_UceI8DodsAVm05MTd3ck1rdUU&usp=sharing

http://www.sdspace4art.org/category/upcoming-events/

ABOUT THE INSIDE OUT PROJECT

Inside Out is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images are made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators, for them to exhibit in their own communities.

Posters can be placed anywhere from a solitary image in an office window, to a wall of an abandoned building, or in a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and be made available online at http://insideoutproject.net

The INSIDE OUT project is a creation of the artist JR, recipient of the 2011 TED Prize.

ABOUT THE TED PRIZE
The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $1,000,000 and the TED community’s resources and expertise to spark global change. The award offers support to build a project’s core infrastructure quickly – so that others can add their own collaborative action.

The first TED Prize was awarded in 2005, born out of the TED Conference and a vision by the worldʼs leading entrepreneurs, innovators, and entertainers to change the world – one Wish at a time. What began as an unparalleled experiment to leverage the resources of the TED Community to spur global change has evolved into one of the most prestigious prizes. A TED Prize winner is a rare and powerful combination of someone who knows how to capture the imaginations and make a measurable impact, a visionary and a pragmatist, a dreamer and a doer. From Bono’s the ONE Campaign (ʼ05 recipient) to Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (ʼ10 recipient) and JRʼs Inside Out Project (ʼ11 recipient), the TED Prize has helped to combat poverty, take on religious intolerance, improve global health, tackle childhood obesity, advance education, and inspire art around the world.

For more information on the TED Prize, visit www.ted.com/prize

Image courtesy of Lara Bullock, UC San Diego Visual Arts PhD Art History Candidate.