AGITATORS COLLECTIVE

You've Never Let Me Down

2010-10-02T20:47:00.000-07:00

Jersey City, NJ

October 2, 2010

Thanks to everyone at 4th Street and special thanks to Agitators Jungle Unit, Sha Boyi, and honorary Agitator Youth Division

Paid In Full (Chocolate Cha Cha)

2010-09-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

Chocolate coins,

money bags,

short leg on the step stool,

...cha-cha-cha!

COLLECTIVE CONSUMPTION

Dumbo Arts Festival 2010

September 24-26, 2010

12-8pm

20 Jay Street, #1019, Brooklyn

Opening reception: Sept 24, 6 pm – 9 pm, with live sound performance by Matt Pass

The exhibition is curated by Claire Sexton and Christina Vassallo, and was selected by the Visual Art Advisory Board for presentation at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2010.

Tricks Are For Kids / This Is A No-Brainer

2010-06-01T19:34:00.000-07:00

June 1, 2010

Seton Hall University

South Orange, NJ

Black, pink, yellow duct tape

June 7 - August 27, 2010

The Walsh Gallery

Curated by Jeanne Brasile

Special thanks to honorary Agitators "Potty Mouth" and "No Show"

KIDS PLAY

2009-12-12T21:40:00.000-08:00

December 10, 2009

4th Street Ball @ City Hall, Jersey City, NJ

Duct tape. Two dangerously placed hopscotch courts.
Jersey City Politics are not for the faint-of-heart.

More Pictures: Click here

Thanks to 4th Street Festival for the invitation

Bring on the beauty

2009-11-10T18:00:00.000-08:00

Agitators Collective brings on the beauty.

58 Coles, Jersey City, NJ

Click here to read the Dislocations review

Opening Reception:

Friday, November 13th, 2009

7-10pm at 58 Gallery

58 Coles Street, Jersey City

fifty8.com

Click here: More pictures of the show on our Flickr page

Waste Not, Want Not (A Mitzvah $$$)

2009-10-04T12:39:00.000-07:00

October 3, 2009, Jersey City, New Jersey

MIZTVAH (mitsvah):
(n) (Judaism) A good deed performed out of religious duty
(n) (New Jersey) Lucrative organ trafficking

Thanks to Agitators: Jungle Unit, Sha Boyi, Nat McNite, Bubs O'Malley, AAA

Special thanks to Mac and Mark and everyone at 4th Street Festival
www.myspace.com/4thstreetart

Rain, Rain, Go Away

2009-05-12T19:03:00.000-07:00

May 12, 2009
Jersey City Heights

This is not a love song.

Cutters

2009-01-28T14:37:00.000-08:00

"We had fed the heart on fantasies - The heart's grown brutal from the fare…"

January 29 - March 14, 2009
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City

Bread and Milk

2009-01-13T08:54:00.000-08:00

Bread and Milk recipe

Prep Time: 3 min
Level: Easy
Yield: 1 serving

Ingredients:
2 thick slices good white bread
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup milk

Directions:
Tear the bread into rough chunks, and sprinkle with the sugar. Warm the milk and pour over the bread and sugar to serve. Enjoy. It's all you're gonna get.

Hard Times

2008-12-03T15:48:00.000-08:00

December 3, 2008
NE 17th Terrace and NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL.
Tinsel, street hustlers, hard times.

Red or Blue

2008-10-26T20:11:00.000-07:00

"Red or Blue, Cuz or Blood, it just don't matter. Suckers dive for your life when my shotgun scatters" —ICE-T (aka Tracey Lauren Marrow) of Newark, NJ.

A drawing in duct tape made directly on the sidewalk at 14 Mulberry Place, Newark, New Jersey. The drawing is a map indicating the major battles of the American Civil War.

"Red or Blue" is part of the exhibition "Red Badge of Courage Revisited" in Newark, NJ. (October 26 - November 30, 2008) "Red Badge of Courage Revisited" is curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.

Stephan Crane, the author of Red Badge of Courage, was born and raised on 14 Mulbery Place. A parking lot now stands in it's place.

The Luck Will Run Out

2008-10-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

The stranger asked to see the shoe;
The farmer brought it into view;
But when the old man raised his head,
He laughed outright and quickly said:
"No wonder skies upon you frown,
You've nailed the horse-shoe upside down;
Just turn it round, and soon you'll see
How you and Fortune will agree."

October 4, 2008, Jersey City, NJ,
Newark Avenue and Fourth Street.
2008 Fourth Street Festival.

Love Is All Around

2008-08-03T08:18:00.000-07:00

August 3, 2008, Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ

Yellow cups, chain link fence, the neighborhood, ...love is all around.

Jersey City Sunshine

2008-05-10T15:21:00.000-07:00

Agitators Collective • May 2008
Jersey City, New Jersey, (An empty lot, Pacific and Carteret Avenues.)

A cheap Indian spice
+
Agitators
=
Jersey City Sunshine

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae which is native to tropical South Asia. It needs temperatures between 20 and 30 deg. C. and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive. Plants are gathered annually for their rhizomes, and re-seeded from some of those rhizomes in the following season.

It is also often misspelled (or pronounced) as tumeric. It is also known as kunyit or haldi in some Asian countries[2].

Its rhizomes are boiled for several hours and then dried in hot ovens, after which they are ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in curries and other South Asian cuisine, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments. Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has an earthy, bitter, peppery flavor and has a mustardy smell.

Laugh'n Turns To Cry'n - Sweet and Sour Babies

2007-07-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

Kitty Korn

2006-10-25T15:19:00.000-07:00

2,800 Marshmallow Spooky Cats
60 lbs Candy Corn

Peep Parade

2006-05-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

May, 2006
River View Park, Jersey City

8,000 Marshmallow Peeps

Mission

2006-05-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

Agitators Collective creates site-related installations in Jersey City and its immediate vicinity. We choose urban locales that are under threat of over-development and gentrification, and or have fallen into neglect and disrepair.

Ideas are freely shared and labor evenly distributed in Agitators Collective. We specifically choose materials and objects that capture the culture of the community, such as candy from the corner bodega, Christmas lights and balloons from a 99 cent store, or found objects taken directly from the street.

Installations range from 8,000 marshmallow peeps on the stairwell of a city park, a written wall mural made up of thirty languages, to a 100-foot circle in turmeric in a parking lot.

Agitators Collective seeks to involve the public in our installations. The public's immediate reactions are incorporated into the work. These types of interactions directly influence and inspire our future projects.