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Photos of COMMUNITY VIDEO PORTRAIT Installation Added

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View photos from the installation at the Bunnell Street Arts Center.

Homer Installation – Only on April 14

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Thursday, April 14 is the one day you can see Community Video Portrait at the Bunnell Street Arts Center. Artist Hasan Elahi will give a presentation at 6pm. The installation features 25 screens of local residents sharing the stories. Please join us! Click for details.

A Bit of History

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The Bunnell Street Arts Center building.

Quotable

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Community Video Portrait artist Hasan Elahi shared his favorite quote (so far) from the video interviews he’s working from:

“Don’t ever put yourself between me and a fish, ‘cause I’m going to vote with the fish.”
-Clem Tillion, long-time commercial fisherman and nine-term Alaska state legislator

Update From Homer

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Visiting artist Hasan Elahi has a sizable stock of videos to work with for the Community Video Portrait project. The videos – of Homer residents – were recorded by other Homer residents, using video cameras provided by the Alaska Design Forum and made available through the Bunnell Street Arts Center.

COMMUNITY VIDEO PORTRAIT Installation – Only On April 14

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The Community Video Portrait installation will be open to the public from 11am-7pm at the Bunnell Street Gallery. There will be a presentation by the artist Hasan Elahi at 6pm.

The installation will be composed of several kiosks that will support between 20-30 video monitors.

Video Interviews Wanted in Homer

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We’re seeking individuals in Homer to capture stories that will be combined & edited together for the Community Video Portrait installation at the Bunnell Street Arts Center. The video installation will be available for viewing on April 14th. Read more

Homer Project Announced

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Hasan Elahi has proposed to facilitate a project titled Community Video Portrait as a communal vessel for the exploration of History as Common Space. The idea is to capture shared community history as Common Space, and present the media in an art installation at a public space.

Click here for the complete project description.

COMMON SPACE Artist on The Colbert Report

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Hasan Elahi is the featured artist for the COMMON SPACE Design Lab in Homer. See a video of Hasan when was a guest of Stephen Colbert.

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