AGITATORS COLLECTIVE

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

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

May 12, 2009
Jersey City Heights

This is not a love song.

Cutters

"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 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

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

Red or Blue

"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.

Mission

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.