NY -- NYC -- High Line -- Art: Silent Agitator (by Ruth Ewan):
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Silent Agitator
April 2019 – March 2020
Ruth Ewan researches communities, organizations, and individuals from the history of activism and alternative educational models. She then presents this research in a variety of interactive and experiential formats, ranging from a jukebox of political songs, to the development of socially-engaged magic tricks, to an installation of 10 decimal clocks that reference the short-lived time system of the French Republic. In both subject matter and approach, Ewan’s projects reveal the dignity and accessible reality of these discrete but profound social movements. She reminds us that revolution is here—and always has been here. Often it appears in humble yet thriving communities and circumstances—in Sunday schools, gatherings of workers, or collections of songs. Her understated style offers opportunities for learning about beautiful moments in the history of social resistance and the potential offered by alternative ways of thinking and organizing.
For the High Line, Ewan presents a monumental-scale clock on the park at 24th Street, also visible from street level. The clock is based on an illustration originally produced for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union by the North American writer and labor activist Ralph Chaplin that reads “What time is it? Time to organize!” The illustration was one of many images that appeared on “stickerettes,” known as “silent agitators,” millions of which were printed in red and black on gummed paper and distributed by union members traveling from job to job. The stickers were advertised through publications such as Solidarity and the union’s newspaper Industrial Worker, and through events such as national “Stickerette Day” on April 29, 1917 and May Day of the same year. The clock nods to the round-the-clock organizing work of the IWW, and the ubiquity of the clock in labor struggles: both the ways that factory owners separated private and public time and the fights fo ...More...
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2019 photos: Overnight trips this year:
(May, August, October, December) Four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con),
(July) My 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
(August) Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experie/nce rain in another state, and
(August) Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie.
Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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