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Public Dreamer: Paula Jardine
Maps and
Stories
Jardine describes the focus of her life's work
as "reviving and redefining community arts and the artist's role in
community."
Her work
claims public space for community process, using the landscape as
metaphor and the city as stage. She devised the earliest Public
Dreams in 1979-1981, a time when Jardine remembers herself as "an
angry young artist fed up with art in a box and theatre that
pretended the audience wasn't there."
In these early projects, Jardine conceived the
idea of planning theatrical events that unfolded spatially, engaging
the audience in a participatory process and a metaphorical journey.
She continues to plan journeys, parades and processions in this way.
The scripts for her large-scale public projects are maps.
Jardine is a storyteller and a mythmaker. She
is concerned with devising ways in which diverse publics can come
together to make myths and share stories of their lives,
oppressions, cultures and histories, musing, "There is a human need
to structure our experience, acknowledge our place, and become part
of something bigger than ourselves."
Click on any image below to view a
large size and to start a slideshow of the work.
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Movie:
Paula
Jardine,
Public
Dreamer
(22 years
in 7
minutes)
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