LOVE LINE
LOVE LINE, 2020Greensboro, NC
Artist A K Mimi Allin is looping L—O—V—E in cursive letters across Greensboro, blazing a new footpath with an old rotary telephone, collecting voices from people on the street and from visitors to Elsewhere Museum, short messages of love, encouragement and friendship. She will collect and deliver messages for one month. Her phone is rigged to play these messages back through the receiver. BRRrrringggg!! BRRrrringggg!! Messages of love and support will be passed from one resident to another, one neighbor to another, one neighborhood to another. The artist selected the telephone from the museum collection as one that embodies the idea of LOVE. As the LOVE LINE loops over class and race line, it seeks to dissolve the divisions decades of privilege have imprinted on our cities. Given our current political crisis LOVE has become yet again a radical form of resistance against dominant culture. LOVE LINE is an attempt to embed a new space dedicated to the enactment of LOVE, a Thirdspace carved into a built environment, a heterotopia between the everyday and the other spaces of LOVE. The artist seeks to make this space visible by inviting citizens from every district to contribute to the re-coding of space by expressing and listening for LOVE. If LOVE, as a cultural expression and tool for community building, is excluded from the landscape, we must dedicate ourselves to creating space for it.
CALL FOR WALKERS, ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS | WALK THE LOVE LINE→Noon, Sat 7 March. Meet at Elsewhere Museum, 606 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC. Wear or carry anything that relates to your expression of love.
CALL FOR WALKERS, ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS | WALK THE LOVE LINE→Noon, Sat 7 March. Meet at Elsewhere Museum, 606 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC. Wear or carry anything that relates to your expression of love.
ARTIST TALKFriday 6 March, 7pm, Elsewhere Museum, 606 S Elm St, Greensboro, NC
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