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April 2007
Check our new short film:
Off-Leash
Art
Osha Neuwmann & Jason
DeAntonis
off-leash at the Bulb
New short film
about these two
incredible Landfill Artists!
More
on Off-Leash Art The Movie
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July 21, 2005
The city of Albany has begun
carving new access roads and
removing homeless camps,
is the artwork next?
Recent Articles
The Albany Landfill Waterfront
Park is the latest Bay Area off-
leash access to be threatened.
It seems our local Sierra Club
and Citizens For the Eastshore
State Park have pressured the
parks administration to put up
signs banning off leash dogs
at the Albany Landfill.
Sign the
on-line petition to
preserve offleash access!
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Off-Leash Art, Off-Leash Dogs,
and the Battle for the Soul
of the Albany Landfill
will capture in words and pictures the rude beauty of
this improbable ecosystem and the extraordinary public art that
it nourishes. This book will chronicle the artists, hobos, vagabonds,
dog walkers, bird watchers, cops, bureaucrats, and outlaws who
have struggled over the future of this piece of land.
This book will not avoid the controversy that swirls around
the landfill. It will be frankly partisan, a contribution to
the battle to keep the space as a successful experiment in self-regulating
bio-cultural diversity. |
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The story of the landfill is the
story of a dump transformed into a place where plants, birds,
dogs, and humans coexist amid a calligraphy of twisted metal
debris and monumental slabs of concrete that thrust up through
the vegetation like the ruins of a failed civilization. It is
the story of the many lives that have been lived on the landfill:
*the homeless who hid
amid the brambles and the bushes and built shelters with million-dollar
views,
*the dog lovers who have
fought to keep the landfill a place where their companions can
run off-leash, and
*the artists who have
produced, out of materials found on the landfill, some of the
most extraordinary public art to be found anywhere in the country.
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| The art of the landfill comes and goes. Some—notably
Mad Mark’s Castle— was produced by the homeless. Some
of the best was done by a group of four artists who lived elsewhere
but came to paint on the weekends. They called themselves "SNIFF"and
painted on concrete blocks and the decking of a floating dock
that washed onto shore. Their work is raucous, erotic, and brilliant.
They painted like inmates escaped from an asylum singing in
four-part harmony. |
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