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James Akers

My oh my, The Mind Benders class I taught at FOCI wrapped up last night and what a wonderful whirlwind! I had the most amazing students who time and time again, were so hungry for knowledge, and wanted to learn more and more.
We learned to bend neon, make digital vector patterns, blink the neon with programmable microcontrollers and I even showed them how they could work with a glassblower to pull their own tubes.

My TA, @dinkytown was incredible- typically fulfilling the class's needs before I even asked her. I am thrilled that she learned a bunch in the class.
It was able to train two FOCI staff members to bombard (the dangerous process of purifying and putting gas in the tubes)- so now FOCI neon renters can get their tubes filled quicker.
The artist talk and demo I gave was well attended, and now FOCI has the doodle I made during the demo in their permanent collection.

Lila and I, smiling with my show title in the background
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A very messy table with some students in the background. Two neon color samples, transformers, digitally drawn patterns, circuit playgrounds, notebooks and beverages covering the table
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Students working and bending neon around a big octagonal table at FOCI. Neon torches and fire abound, clear glass tubes scattered around the table.
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A class poster to the left, and a show poster to the right. The class poster has a doodle made with colors that can only be bought in california (yellow, turquoise, purple and pink) and the show poster has my Soul Selling Timer with a neon green "DATA DRIVEN" in the forground in an acrylic box emblazoned with big tech logos carved into it and big red button on the top.
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#neon#class#roadtrip
Gary Hall

You’ve 9 more days to catch the Lives Less Ordinary : Working-Class Britain Re-seen exhibition at Two Temple Place:

twotempleplace.org/exhibitions

Well worth a visit. It expands the idea of the w/c beyond the usual cliches. Though it’s not without limits of its own – perhaps inevitably so. That’s the problem with representation: you construct – and so more or less violently delimit – the very thing you think you’re just depicting.

Why is working class life so often presented as being grim in one way or another? In this sense, Lives Less Ordinary offers a marked contrast to the joy and vitality displayed by those working class artists, designers, photographers, models, musicians, fashion stylists and art directors who feature in The Face Magazine: Culture Shift exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery:

npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions

Two Temple PlaceLives Less Ordinary - Two Temple PlaceTwo Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.
#art#culture#classwar
Jennifer Moore 😷

New book on "the white working class" etc - looks interesting

Kenan Malik on Joel Budd's new book "Underdogs", in the Guardian.

"White workers may constitute a distinct group but they are not, Budd argues, homogeneous. A key distinction he draws is between “heartlands”, “enclaves” and “colonies”."

"The tactic of using the working class as an alibi for elite prejudices is deeply embedded in British history."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

James Akers

Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.

It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.

My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.

Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company

Stick sculpture with neon inside the pyramid of sticks
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A student (Juyon) with a wobbly piece of formerly flat glass with imagery and mirror on it
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My stick and neon chandelier sculpture mid packing. This one- packed last minute before we leave- is packed in a form fitting cardboard box with the "bend over" method
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Another Juyon piece of glass she mirrored. The bubble was heated, and sucked in- leaving 5 trails of glass leading to the upper square ring, and membranes of solid glass left behind. Lots of other silvered glass on the cart in the background
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#roadtrip#mirror#class
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