Project Description

HUNTING THE NOW , CAZANDO EL MOMENTO by TCNS

As part of the 1st Public Art / Urban Interventions Day - GROUNDED? orginazed by Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts, we are making a public art project on the theme of “HUNTING THE NOW ”/ “CAZANDO EL MOMENTO ”. This is a bilingual treasure hunt game, intended to divulge unique features of the present social-urban development of Mission and Valencia Streets between Cesar Chavez and Duboce Street. For more than two centuries these two streets have had a long history of various developments contributing to the cultural mixing, segregation, and iniquities exhibiting today. From the Mexican, Central, Latin American to the European, Asian and African American experience, all of these communities have had a major role in shaping the cultural face of both Mission and Valencia streets. In every instance urban developers, landowners and occupants are contributors to their transformations and vestiges of the past, present and future. In search of this epoch, “Hunting the Now” creates an unusual foundation or ground into how we look at these two streets as we playfully gaze over them in a Saturday Afternoon.

TCNS is launching the game on SATURDAY DECEMBER 1, 2007 and distributing it through various venues over the month.

By Mabel Negrete - (a.k.a TCNS)