Product Placement TIMELINE

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

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