PRODUCT PLACEMENT TIMELINE
UPCOMING
Product Placement / Kansas City
Intervention: June 2012
Location: COSTCO
Product Placement / Mongolia
Interventions: July-August 2012
Exhibition: Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
COMPLETED
Product Placement / New York
Intervention: March 2012
Location: Public actions & interventions on Madison Avenue, New York & Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn
Exhibition: Gridspace Brooklyn, NY
April- May 2012
Web: http://gridspace.org/may-tveit-product-placement/
Product Placement / Black Friday / Kansas City
November 2011
Kansas City, MO. USA
Public Action.
Walk from my studio 2.5 miles up and back on Main Street to COSTCO Black Friday- the busiest shopping day of the year.
Product Placement / Test Drive F-150 / Kansas City
November 2011
Kansas City, MO. USA
Prototype of mobile spectacle: F-150 pickup truck filled with Security red balloons.
Test drive on streets and highway I-670 west.
Product Placement/ Rig Research/ Kansas City
November 2011
Kansas City, MO. USA
City Rent-a-truck
Belger Cartage
Drawings, calculations.
Product Placement / Costco-no-no / Kansas City
November 2011
Kansas City, MO. USA
Meeting with Costco manager, 3 proposals
Proposal Drawings
Product Placement / Alma, Kansas
Alma Food Mart
October 2011
In store intervention / collaboration
Product Placement / Alma, Kansas
October 2011
Main Street, intersection intervention
Product Placement / Alma, Kansas
October 2011
Alma Dirt Road
Soybean Field / Lawrence, Kansas
October 2011
Location scouting / test
Losing/ Finding Happiness / Kansas City
September 2011
Kansas City, MO.
Intersection at 18th & Walnut
While videotaping the balloon Happiness rolling away from me and the camera… a homeless man pushing a shopping cart runs after it and brings it back saying to me:
“Did you lose this?”
Product Placement/ Berlin
Adventures on a Tram
June 2011
Berlin, Germany
Tram interior, tram stop, met a Russian sociologist/ photographer who took photographs.
Product Placement/ Berlin
Michelberger Courtyard
June 2011
Berlin, Germany
Hotel window & courtyard
Product Placement/ Berlin
Intersection
June 2011
Berlin, Germany
Product Placement/ Dubrovnik
Sea Worthy (Carriers / Disseminators)
June 2011
Lopud Island, Dubrovnik
Collaboration with 9 KCAI students, 1 curator and 1 lawyer in the Adriatic Sea.
Product Placement/ Dubrovnik
Mooring Liberty
June 2011
Video of me swimming with the balloon liberty to a mooring.
Historical link: Dubrovnik began as a Roman settlement. From the Middle Ages on it was a prize sought by Venice, Hungary, Turkey, and others who recognized the city’s logistical value as a maritime port. But Libertas (Liberty), the city’s motto, has always been uppermost in the minds of Dubrovnik’s citizens, and through the ages their thirst for independence repeatedly trumped other nations’ plans for domination.
Product Placement / Venice
Life
June 2011
Venice, Italy
Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Venice
Belonging / Avoiding Belonging
June 2011
Venice, Italy
Video. Pedestrian interaction avoiding, moving around, kicking, interacting.
Shot inspired by Peter Greenaway’s film watching water.
Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Venice
Happiness
June 2011
Fondamenta della Zattere, Canale della Giudecca
Venice, Italy
Video in water, in canal. Happiness subject to currents and waves, bobbing up & down, eventually catapulting out of the water
Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Venice
Free for All
June 2011
Campo San Barnaba
Venice, Italy
Release of multiple balloons in public square- pedestrians, passersby and children playing.
Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Venice
Venetian Dialect & Japanese
June 2011
Campo San Barnaba
Venice, Italy
Meeting with owner Osteria La Bitta- translate words into venetian dialect & Japanese characters. Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Venice
Vaporetto Debocle
June 2011
Venice, Italy
Aborted mission on Vaporetto on way to train station.
Interventions took place in multiple public spaces during the 54th Venice Biennale.
Product Placement / Kansas City
Product Placement- Export
June 2011
Kansas City, MO.
Still images of deflated balloons packed in plastic baggies in suitcases. Handed off to KCAI students at airport to be carriers/collaborators.
Product Placement / Kansas City
Winter of my Normalcy
January 2011
Kansas City, MO.
Snowstorm intervention in Costco parking lot.
Product Placement / New York
Tether, Hold, Float
June-July 2010
Art OMI
Ghent, NY
Product Placement / New York
Dart Driven
June-July 2010
Art OMI
Ghent, NY
Product Placement / New York
Three on a Wire
June-July 2010
Art OMI
Ghent, NY
Product Placement / New York
Tru-Value Normalcy
June-July 2010
Art OMI. Ghent, NY
Spontaneous prototype, delivery pick up truck, normalcy, field
Product Placement / New York
Field of Ideals
Art OMI
Ghent, NY
June-July 2010
Planted 9 balloons in a field
Product Placement / New York
Homeland Security
June-July 2010
Art OMI
Ghent, NY
Release of Security 60’ into air in a field
Product Placement / Massachusetts
By Land By Sea
December 2009
Cape Cod, MA.
Retail Therapy
January 2002
Site-specifc gallery installation
Epsten Gallery Overland Park, KS.
Contextual framework and springboard for Product Placement
Please see maytveit.com for more information on Retail Therapy