The Space Savers Project

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On-Street Exhibition, Saturday, December 10 from 10AM-4PM

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Piper Brett
The Expandable/ Collapsible Space Saver
Fitzgerald St, between 12th and 13th/ Wolf and Ritner

Thomas Buildmore
Today was pretty awesome
E Girard, between Frankford and Day St

Michael Konrad
Camo Cones (Hiding in Plain Site)
N 25^th St, near Poplar St

Chris Landau
TABLE
10th and Moore

Jebney Lewis and Maria Möller
Where you are, where I am, where we’d like to be
Frankford Ave, between E Thompson St and W Master St

Isaac Tin Wei Lin
Leopard Cage
1200 Block of Leopard St, between Girard and Thompson St

Christopher P. McManus
Jordan V
Catherine St, between 22^nd and 23^rd

Benjamin Monette
Territory
West Mt Airy Ave, between Germantown and Bryan

Brent Wahl and Oscar Wahl
Mine
Pine St, between 20^th and 21^th

Linda Yun
Move Along/ Please Stay
13^th St, between Wolf and Ritner

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The Space Savers Project is a citywide public arts project, inspired by the Philadelphia custom of “saving” on-street parking. Saving public parking spaces, while technically illegal, is widely practiced throughout the city. Items like recycling bins, upturned garbage cans, cinder blocks and broken furniture are traditionally used as space savers. While the objects effectively “save” spaces, they can be visually crude and imply threat/ possession. We called on artists to design and create alternatives to the objects traditionally used to save spaces. This is public art project as well as an environmental and social experiment. We wanted to re-imagine what space saving in the city can look like. We wondered: Can a change in the aesthetics change the message of space saving? Or is the act of space saving immutable? Perhaps by replacing traditional space savers with art, we can transform the practice of saving spaces and begin new community dialogues.

Is saving a parking space with a work of art different than saving one with a cinder block tethered to a street sign? The Space Savers Project may reveal an answer.

The creative goals for The Space Savers Project are:
To re-imagine a Philadelphia custom;
To transform environments and social customs;
To engage viewers outside of traditional gallery spaces.

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