BATTLEGROUNDS

Battlegrounds is a city-wide, augmented reality (AR) public art activation in New Orleans, which interprets the word "Battleground" as broadly as possible.

 

Using the LA-based 4^th Wall AR app, we have geo-located thematically related artworks at the sites of the artists' choosing. These sites include polluted waterways, confederate statues, gentrified lands, levees, prisons, neglected neighborhoods, slave trade sites, formerly indigenous territories – to name just a few. 

 

It's a new type of subversive public art which asks no permission, but attempts to prompt thoughtful discourse around the most urgent issues the artwork and sites represent for the larger community they serve. The app is free and open to the public. This is an unapologetically political project, and does no environmental harm in a region of the country which is most vulnerable to climate change.

 

BATTLEGROUNDS opens on October 26^th with 30 works from 25 local New Orleans artists. 

 

 

Community programming and workshops are essential to this project, as is public access to the artworks. Your gift will help fund workshops (as pictured below, on September 21^st) with local youth in the lower Ninth Ward and related outreach projects. 

   

       

 

     
 

Your generous gift will also help support the artists, and costs of the exhibition itself. If you can’t be in New Orleans for the opening or in the months that follow, please experience it on 4thwallapp.org on October 26^th or check @4thwallapp or @nancybakercahill on Instagram for early glimpses of what’s coming!