Presented by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, The 5x5 Project is an ambitious District-wide program of contemporary, temporary public art dedicated to exploring new perspectives on our city through the lens of five curators. In fact, it is the largest, temporary public art project in the District. The project will run through December 2014
 | The 5x5 Project: Cameron Hockenson: Migration 1000 4th Street SW Thru Tue, October 7 Migration is a “nonument” about leaving and finding home in a time of dramatic social and climatic change. Migration brings light to unnoticed communities that form the old growth urban ecosystem of Washington, DC. These nests are much like neighborhoods now on the move, embracing, adapting, or resisting forces of gentrification now sweeping the city, and the world. |
 | The 5x5 Project: Jennifer Wen Ma: Portrait Garden 1000 4th Street SW Thru Tue, October 7 Upon arriving at Nonument Park, visitors will enter a garden that takes the form of personal portraiture on a magnified scale to celebrate the unsung heroes of daily life, at an unspecific moment, and without a prescribed value system. Community member Alpha Lillstrom was chosen by lottery for the portrait, paying homage to a citizen whose deeds are not necessarily grand in the scheme of human history, but whose challenges are still heroic in the arduous struggles of daily life. |
 | The 5x5 Project: Jonathan Fung: Peep 1000 4th Street SW Thru Tue, October 7 Human trafficking is a criminal business that profits from enslaving people for sexual exploitation, forced labor and domestic servitude. Free the Slaves estimates there are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history: 21-30 million. Peep examines the atrocity of human trafficking through semiotics and the use of repetition. |
 | The 5x5 Project: Naranjo Morse: Digging 1000 4th Street SW Thru Tue, October 7 Digging will take place over thirty days. Beginning with level ground the team will work daily to create earthen mounds. In the last four days the earth will be re-leveled. Participants in the performance will wear costumes representing different aspects of American culture like the service industry, business class, farmers, and criminals. Using hand tools dirt will be accumulated into mounds. Through more than 580 combined hours of labor Digging empowers each of us to face personal and social challenges. |
 | The 5x5 Project: Peter Hutchinson: Thrown Rope of Trees for Washington D.C. 1000 4th Street SW Thru Tue, October 7 Earth artist Peter Hutchinson first began creating his thrown rope installations in the 1970s by throwing a rope and placing plants along the random path it formed. Hutchinson thought of the newly created plantings as the lifeline that he was not able to throw to his brother who he lost in World War II. Peter and Lance envisioned Thrown Rope DC as a sinuous line that divided Nonuments Park into sections housing each artists work. |
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