Chalktalk
Something I learned about you this week…
Every week students responded to a prompt with chalk on sidewalks throughout Bellingham and uploaded images of their responses to an Instagram site. Chalktalk was an opportunity to imagine addressing an organism of another species as a subject with agency. It was a means of transcribing outside in the lived environment and sharing with the larger community what the students were discovering and writing about in the intimate space of their Commonplace Books.
As an insertion into public spaces, Chalktalk became a temporary artifact in an environmental art installation. In situ and in the moment, it was an opportunity for community interaction. Photographed and uploaded to social media, the temporary gestures were preserved and recirculated.
