ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Jason S. Brown
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My production as an artist includes kinetic sculpture, performance, and installation. Throughout all forms, I temporarily transform places through actions that create a confounding spectacle in order to question routine patterns and social norms. This work represents a series of sculptures that are props and instruments for social interventions in urban and rural spaces. While the sculptures appear to have some measure of authority, they are intended to initiate a critique of power structures in state and corporate institutions. The elements of bright colors, wheels, and flashing lights are related to the utilitarian language of safety equipment in a construction site. These work zones also represent a kind of intermediary space - somewhere between order and anarchy - that is the core of social constructions and relationships. Designed to invite audience participation, I want my objects and projects to challenge users to engage in a civic dialogue about individual, community, and place.