PROJECTS

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Happening at CCB Plaza, Downtown Durham / June 21, 2019
Walsh / Blazing were invited to project Changing Worlds: Durham onto 21C Museum Hotel. This 7 min looping video depicts the imagined evolution of local landmarks and challenges residents to confront what’s at stake if our battle to save the environment is lost. This Happening brought together six Durham-based artists for a two-hour collaborative performance. Presented by Justin Tornow, Saba Taj, and Pierce Freelon, with support from Downtown Durham Inc, 21C Museum Hotel and Kontek.

WALSH / BLAZING were engaged by Solis Brightleaf to produce a large-scale, mixed-media painting for the lobby of their new and NGBD Green Certified apartments. The work is visible from Main Street and is in conversation with the modern architecture and distinctly Durham feel of this downtown property.

Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University
Enviro-Art Gallery Showcase / April 2019
WALSH / BLAZING’s free-standing animated video environmental sculpture DURMatitis was on exhibit as part of the Enviro-Art Gallery showcase of professional and student artwork designed to highlight the beauty and struggles of nature. DURMatitis depicts local landmarks in a graphic novel-styled imagined Durham if our battle to save the environment is lost. The work asks what role each of us plays toward that outcome -- Am I the problem or am I the solution? You are one or the other, or both, but you cannot extract yourself from the equation.
April 6 - WALSH / BLAZING gave a presentation about their science-based practice of letting climate communication research findings, focus groups, and viewer input shape their approach to environmental messaging through visual art.

Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media Symposium
NC State University / March 29-30, 2019
WALSH / BLAZING shared the evolution of their collaborative practice that includes video, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Based on scientific research, their work is designed to effectively engage the public around environmental issues through unique and personally relevant storytelling art experiences. Their goal is to empower others to speak out about the dire consequences to humankind if we fail to act.
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The Bull Meets the Bayou Artist Collective
New Orleans, LA & Durham, NC / February - June 2018
Changing Worlds: Rear View, a wall-mounted environmental sculpture and video installation by WALSH / BLAZING was on exhibit as part of The Bull Meets the Bayou Artist Collective Exhibit in New Orleans, LA. The entire exhibit then traveled and was on view at The Carrack Modern Art in Durham, NC. Changing Worlds: Rear View, consisted of a tablet-sized, video display set within a wall-mounted, distressed, scrap metal assemblage. The looping video montage depicted real environmental disasters projected onto a foreboding, other-worldly paint and collage cityscape. Contrasting audio delivered a woven tapestry of an aging midwestern family’s actual ‘voices of remembrance’ recalling simpler times growing up in the Midwest.

Changing Worlds: Earth Month Exhibit and Community Programing,
Pleiades Arts, Durham, NC / April 5-29, 2018
WALSH / BLAZING produced the exhibit Changing Worlds which was on view in April (Earth Month). Pleiades artists offered stunning interpretations of the beauty of our environment, the need to protect it, and the necessity of conversations about the warming of our planet. Upstairs in the solo gallery, WALSH / BLAZING brought a multimedia installation that invited viewers to both honor our past and confront what’s at stake if we fail to embrace long-term strategies for sustainability. The public was invited to join several climate-oriented discussions featuring environmental scientists, artists, and animation filmmakers.

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Packaging Space: Presented by Calvin Brett
Cameron Gallery, Durham, NC / January-February 2018
This interactive installation invited visitors to consider all the items society packs, ships, and discards as a means of defining class and comfort. Through the exercise of gathering items and repackaging boxes, people were asked to consider how all our actions relate and how the trash of one class often becomes the treasure of a lower class, but all discards, regardless, eventually become the contents of landfills. The immersive installation was conceived by Calvin Brett and constructed by a group of artists. WALSH / BLAZING’s Changing Worlds looping video was projected onto the scene as a reminder that the perils of excessive consumption are already upon us.