Project Summary
The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and '70s. Each event takes place at the site of the original speech, and is delivered by a performer to an audience of invited guests and passers-by. Videos, audio recordings, and photographs of these performances are presented in various venues and distributed online and on DVD as open-source media.
The first event in the series, Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent, took place on September 16, 2006 and was based on a speech given by Coretta Scott King at a peace march in Central Park in 1968.
The second reenactment, Port Huron Project 2: The Problem Is Civil Obedience, took place on July 14, 2007. It was based on a speech originally delivered by author and activist Howard Zinn at a peace march on Boston Common in 1971.
The third reenactment, based on a speech given in 1965 by SDS President Paul Potter, took place on July 26, 2007 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Three additional reenactments are planned for 2008; these will be produced by Creative Time.
About the Artist
The
Port Huron Project is organized by Mark Tribe, an artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. He is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, where he teaches courses on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. Mark is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. In 1996, Mark founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new media artists, and he now chairs Rhizome's board of directors. He received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. He splits his time between Providence and New York City. You can find his CV and examples of his other work at
nothing.org.
The Port Huron Project Team
Production Team for Summer 2007:
• Meghan Boudreau
Meg is a Modern Culture and Media student at Brown University, enjoys radical politics, avant-garde film, and fine wines. She has been known to ride scooters.
• Christina Ducruet
Christina is a rising senior at Brown University where she studies Modern Culture and Media. She is especially interested in cultural experience as formed by the built environment. Outside the classroom, she is an active member of the free culture movement and is passionate about media and technology law. Other interests include music, cooking, typography, and art.
• Claire Harlam
Claire is a student in the Modern Culture and Media Department at Brown University, where she spends much of her time studying modern culture and producing media. She spends the rest of her time playing classical piano, listening to old records, filming on her vintage Bolex camera, enjoying her original Nintendo Entertainment System, and wondering what she's doing in this century. She also really likes American Idol.
• Margaret Perkins
Margaret studies film theory and production as an Art Semiotics concentrator at Brown University. She is active in the theater at Brown and elsewhere, both as an actor and as a director. She is also a member of New Works/World Traditions, a West African dance company.
• Paul Wallace
Paul is an artist who currently attends Brown University. His work in video, sculpture, and installation focuses on the physiological and psychoanalytic structures of language, desire, and faith. His art can be seen at
theworkofpaulwallace.com.
• Shane Brennan
Shane received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art, critical theory and
media studies from Brown University in 2007. He has worked at
Creative Time
and the
Lisson
Gallery, and completed a curatorial fellowship at
Rhizome.org. Shane
produced
New
Climates, an online curatorial project exploring the relationship
between art, global climate change and networked culture. In May 2007,
he relocated to New York City to pursue an internship at the Whitney
Museum, and to continue writing, curating and making art. His work can be seen at
shanebrennan.net
Supporters
Support for the Port Huron Project has been provided by:
• Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
• Office of the Vice President for Research, Brown University
• Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards, Brown University
Contact
Address for Summer 2007:
Port Huron Project
323 West 39th Street, 612
New York, NY 10018
Email:
porthuronproject@gmail.com
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