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Art, Health: Jordan Wayne Long

Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 27, 2011 at 7:47 pm ET

Resource: Jordan Wayne Long.

Jordan Wayne Long is a performance and video artist originally from Bald Knob, Arkansas. He graduated with his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011. His current work deals with Trauma and the mechanisms used to deal with it.

…He will be shipped and locked in a crate from Bald Knob, AR to Portland, OR over 7 days while only communicating through an online game called LOTRO. The performance will take place on July, 7th 2011 at the Fourteen30Contemporary @ the 937 space curated by Rocksbox Fine Art.

Resource: Living in a box: gamer to travel a very Long way stuck in a crate via The Sydney Morning Herald.

If you have gotten this far in the reading of this post you have, hopefully, stopped rolling your eyes. Jordan Wayne Long’s work concerns trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and ways people can deal with it. Understanding and healing PTSD is important.

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Art: Yarn Bombing

Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 20, 2011 at 5:26 pm ET

Resource: Graffiti’s Cozy, Feminine Side via NYTimes.com.

The bronze statue of Rocky near the Philadelphia Museum of Art irked Jessie Hemmons. She found the statue too big, too macho and too touristy, so last month Ms. Hemmons, a 24-year-old artist, bombed him. With pinkish yarn.

I am against vandalism and trespassing and all of that, but I really appreciate this creativity — as long as it does not do damage. I can think of at least a half dozen pieces close by that I would not mind seeing wrapped in yarn, with permission from the proper authorities, of course.

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Art: Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”

Contributed by Rick DeVan on February 17, 2011 at 10:35 am ET

Resource: Flock Around ‘The Clock’ at NYTimes.com.

Resource: Christian Marclay.

Resource: Christian Marclay at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

Not being in New York, I have not seen this work. The idea is fascinating in our time-obsessed world. (I am rushing to complete this post so I can get to an appointment on time.)

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