Marian Schoettle – The Clouet Gardens Project – art, community, social protest

When is a public park not a park? When it is destabilized by a roaring train, behind enemy lines, somewhere, elsewhere, here, now.

A public project in the temporary Clouet Gardens Park: an occupation of an unorganized territory in a conflict zone of disputed entitlement. Bureaucratic file cases and deflated parachutes are caught up in the old oak tree while a surveillance beacon sweeps the perimeter of the park. There is dark money, a control steering wheel, a couple of nomadic tents, megaphones, a swing and a dangling telephone. The full text of the lawsuit against 94 Oil and Gas Companies is strung on a laundry line. A chance to witness and participate. The Fringe Festival, New Orleans.

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full project description on who what where page

new orleans fringe festival

11/2014 mau schoettle

enter the park, past the laundry line of posted public documents and dirty money

to one of several desolate speaking places

a telephone hangs from above

just in reach of the swing

the public posting of the coastal erosion lawsuit

and dirty dark money

behind enemy lines

collapsed parachutes suspended in the trees with bureaucratic file boxes attached

perimeter light surveillance

i see a wheel controller

an encampment

soap box oratory

the game of consequence

The full text of The Coastal Erosion Lawsuit is being processed paragraph by paragraph in the poetry generator. In this game of CONSEQUENCE nothing more is revealed.