Graham
Coreil-Allen

Sitelines

April 24 – May 15, 2015

ICA Baltimore at Current Space

SiteLines is a multimedia collection of online videos, experimental walking tours, and an immersive art installation featuring banners, photography, typography, and cartography derived from nearby invisible public spaces.

SiteLines is a translation of the artist's New Public Sites walking tours into a participatory video web series capturing the artist and walking tour participants as they playfully explore public space while he shares the sites’ histories, design, and uses. The ongoing New Public Sites project interprets the overlooked and invisible sites within cities, investigates the negotiable nature of public space, and pushes the boundaries of pedestrian agency. Filming for the first season of SiteLines began in September 2014 with four tours: Crossing the Highway to Nowhere, Reservoir Chill, Old Town Walking Revival, and Power Plant Alive! These collections of new public sites are connected by suburban style development in an urban context, including freeways and pedestrian malls.

Videos from these walks will be incorporated into a larger installation of banners, photography, typography, found object sculptures, and a gallery-sized map. During the course of the three-week exhibition, Coreil-Allen will also lead three walking tours in collaboration with additional artists working in the surrounding Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District. All tours are free and open to the public.

Full playlist of SiteLines videos

Crossing the Highway to Nowhere (video)

Remote Sidewalk Sublime (video)

Graham Coreil-Allen

Graham Coreil-Allen is a Baltimore-based public artist and organizer working to make cities more inclusive and livable through public art, radical walking tours, and civic engagement. Coreil-Allen received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and has created projects for numerous spaces, places, and events including the The Deitch/Creative Time Art Parade, Eyebeam, openhouseNY, Washington Project for the Arts, Arlington Art Center, VistArts, Artscape, Transmodern Festival, Current Space, RedLine, Arlington Public Art, Baltimore City, and the US Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale.