Honduras Solidarity-- Banana Tree Project

The Honduras Solidarity Banana Tree Project is an artistic intervention and public awareness project to combat disinformation surrounding the ousting of the democratically elected President Zelaya during the June 2009 Coup D'etat in Honduras.

Space Rec is making information bananas and hanging them from trees to be dismantled and disseminated--and encouraging YOU to DO THE SAME!!

One side looks like a cute banana that will make gosh-darn-cute-banana-trees-god-bless-it, and the other side will have information about the political climate leading up to the coup, human rights violations taking place under the purview of the de facto government, quotes, statistics, and most importantly the phone number and postal address to Secretary Hillary Clinton and Tom Shannon at the State Department. The bananas will have written instructions to mail in the Nanner as an alternative form of grassroots lobbying.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1.Download the pdf banana images and fact page *click here
2.Cut, paste, and assemble
3.Punch a hole in the top of the nana and attach string
4.Hang bananas from accessible trees in highly trafficked areas and take a flick
5.Send the picture to spatialreclamationproject@riseup.net and we will post them on our site and send them to Honduran organizations so the Honduran people can see that cities and campuses across America stand with them in solidarity to protect the integrity of democracy world wide.

*If y'all are too busy to turn trees into bad-ass-guerilla-art-protest-tree-installations than at least send in a banana or call and leave a message (with a banana fact) for Clinton (who maintains that the US will support the Nov. 29th elections in Honduras regardless the out come, or the fact that they are being held by an illegal governement). Call 202.647.4000

Stories Put in Place

Stories Put In Place
a radical cartography project

When I think about who I am, I think about where I've been. Each memory I have has a setting. The environment can have a profound influence on our identity, and specific places become a part of who we are. Sometimes, the motion of the city creates a feeling of anonymity, but we all share these spaces and have stories that go untold. SpaceRec believes we can build community through storytelling. Since we've been exploring psycho-cartography, we wanted to find a way to put peoples stories back into place. To carve out a space where our messages can be seen and heard, and most importantly valued over billboards and advertisements. Stories Put In Place is a project that allows us to reclaim space through site-specific storytelling. It lets our histories become a part of the landscape.

SpaceRec encourages you to take part in this activity, and to get some friends together and make a party out of it.

Here's some instructions:

Step One: Make a map. Draw your city, mapping out everyday routes, familiar places, hang out spots, places you avoid, the neighborhood you live in...etc.

Step Two: Record personal histories with the specific places on the map, the way certain locations make you feel, what has happened there, what you remember about that place.

Step Three: Share and Compare. See how each person interpreted and rendered their environment, and what events have shaped there lives and their relationships with places. what are the differences?

Step Four: Choosing points from your map, translate your historical accounts onto flags. Get creative! You can make your flags out of all kinds of materials. Paper, tape, and a stick is pretty basic; write on cloth and stick it onto a clothing hanger-- take it a step further and use materials that correlate with the specific site!

Step Five: Walk through the city and place your flags at the according locations.

Step Six: Take pictures of your flag installations and your maps and email them to spatialreclamationproject@riseup.net and we'll post them on counterspace!

Information Through Images Cartography Project

 

Map Making Party

The Spatial Reclamation Project held an unconventional-map-making-party. These are illustrated picture maps. They are meant to be viewed and interpreted as maps, and portray real and imagined places. After the maps were finished, the group discussed each place, what it would be like to live there, and what an average day would be like. To view the rest of the project's maps, click on the map above.

Favela Land Proposal

The Favela Land Proposal is a photo détournement, "global-citizen" awareness project. Click on the Land Proposal to read more about the project. The Proposal and détournement image were left at the site where the photograph was taken.

The Peoples' Print Project

The Peoples' Print Project is an alternative media, thought box, open-to-the-public-ation. Its a two-tiered mechanism: one part print-stop, containing paper, pen, some mild guidelines and Space Rec leaflet-- equal part drop-stop, thought box, labeled depository; the community dissemination station. We left them in unobtrusive locations to avoid untimely dismantlement. The woodland park Print is in an off-the-beaten-track woody cluster between the roses and the zoo. Most likely, it will find some young explorers or your common tokers. The other Print was left off to the side of the Shilshole tracks where it'll find a lot of graffiti artists. We didn't want the Print to be secluded to it's built-in audience so we made MAPS! The maps will be continuously dispersed in between stacks of news papers, public library books, and through other covert operations.

Phinney Land Proposal Photo Détournement