Circulation


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Education

Funded by a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts, REPOhistory has developed an educational component for CIRCULATION. The following school have created art works exploring various issues involving blood as an entity and as a metaphor for identity.

Institute for Collaborative Education, a New York City Public School

The Bleeding Edge is on-line zine that explores circulation as a metaphor. The features include "Blood for Beginners" (an illustrated dictionary), "Blood Lines/Close Ties" and "Red-Time Stories" (bilingual projects), and articles produced by 6th - 11th grade students at the Institute for Collaborative Education, NYC. Project Coordinator: Meryl Meisler

ICE teachers: Francine LaPorte, Niesha White, Scott Mann
Student Teacher: Kristine Bowen

http://www.thebleedingedge.org

City-as-School High School
New York City Public School System
documentation

The social and political discourse surrounding blood as the product of a multimillion dollar industry, the site of extended knowledge of and control over bodies through DNA technology, and the carrier of HIV is punctuated by stories of the body. Stories include selling blood for yarn, a case of baby switching caught by DNA tests, the culture of vampirism, and contracting hepatitis from raw oysters. My student collaborators, in short interviews, insert their own critical commentary on the project.

And these are the main organizations where we interviewed:

National Hemophilia Foundation
Bronx-Harlem Needle Exchange
Fire Department 9
New York Immunogenetics Center
New York Blood Center
City-as-School
RepoHistory

St. Cloud State University Art Departmen, St. Cloud, Minnesota

The circulation sign project was organized by students and faculty of the St. Cloud State University Art Department. It represents a dialogical inquiry into race relations. The question "What's race got to do with circulation?" was asked on campus and the response words became the basis for the visual work. The effort is in conjunction with the Circulation project in New York City organized by the artist collective REPOhistory. A project website documentation includes designs, the sign installations, the response as well as reflections.

Participants: Tasha Albertson, Ryan Anderson, Sheila Evenson, June Engler, Ioannis Niklas, Noah Wenz Co-directors: Keith Christensen, Anna Wagner-Ott The project is sponsored by the Open Design Studio, a program of the SCSU Art Department, St. Cloud, Minnesota.

http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~art/students/ods/circ/circ.html