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Sherri Lynn Wood: The Mantra Trailer
Around town, April 11 - 27, 2008
ThreeWalls is excited to host The Mantra Trailer, a civic engagement project by interdisciplinary artist Sherri Lynn Wood in Chicago, April 11 through April 27, 2008.
Wood’s Mantra Trailer will be onsite at locations through Chicago, recording local ‘mantras’ for The Mantra Trailer archive and for release with Issue 3 of Paper and Carriage magazine, launching May 19, 2008 at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
The Mantra Trailer is a new media tool, documenting the people's prayers, petitions and aspirations for self and society. Parked at the intersection of imagination, evangelism and propaganda, it is a traveling mediation space, recording studio and site of mysterious broadcast in the form of a 1972 breadbox trailer.
As defined by the artist "A mantra can be anything from a prayer to a few words that carry personal meaning at the center of one's life, work or play." The recorded mantras are broadcast through a high-tech, ultra-sound speaker attached to the trailer, that mysteriously projects a focused beam of sound.
Wood is currently on a 2-month, cross-country tour with the Mantra Trailer. She began the tour in March from her home base in Durham, North Carolina. The project includes a website, video blog and podcast and is fiscally sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund.
Sherri Lynn Wood is the recipient of a 2006/07 North Carolina Visual Fellowship. The Mantra Trailer has received foundational support from the North Carolina Arts Council, The MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Southern Documentary Fund.
The Mantra Trailer will be on site and making recordings:
Saturday, April 12, 2008 from 12:00 – 4:00 PM at Intuit, 756 N Milwaukee Ave.
Friday, April 18, 2008 from 11:00 – 3:00 PM at the drive at 401 N Michigan Ave.
Friday, April 26, 2008 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S Cornell Ave in conjunction with Creative Move: Moving Mountains, 24 hour celebration.
Please visit Wood’s website, www.mantratrailer.com to learn more or make a tax deductible donation in support of this project.
Links to the Mantra Trailer and Sherri Lynn Wood:
Wood's Review in TimeOut (a downloadable PDF)
Mantra Trailer on Third Coast International Audio Festival
Purchase Paper & Carriage 3 with a limited edition copy of Mantra Trailer recordings.
Other projects by Sherri Lynn Wood: Passage Quilts
