RedBall Project

It was a crazy packed day at the BOB!

GRCC Fieldhouse

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GRCC RB heads to Fieldhouse

The RedBall came to play Friday at the Grand Rapids Community College Fieldhouse on our first full sunny day! Anchored beneath the second story overpass connecting the student center and Fieldhouse, it hovered above the sidewalk for much of the afternoon keeping students and bus-stop dwellers both startled and entertained. One of the first projects to visit GRCC, it turned out to be the only ArtPrize work many students had yet seen. One of the most visually potent RedBall sites so far because of the bold geometry of the building, we also had a good mix of people who followed the project from its previous site, wondering aloud

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Rosa Parks Circle

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Pandemonium at Rosa Parks Circle

Yesterday RedBall Project visited Maya Lin

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UICA Opening Night

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Day One Gerald Ford Museum

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RedBall Project

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Gerald R. Ford Museum

Gerald Ford Museum

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RB Quotes

'The temporary has the potential to afford public participation in its making of during its life. So, RedBall lives in all its conceived or carried-out musings on lace, in all the impossible places it occupied but could not remain. Whereas for the Kapoor (sculpture in Millennium Park) great lengths were taken at great expense to achieve the near impossible, RedBall breathes because of its temporality. RedBall invokes impermanence in its constant mutability and migration.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'One of the best things about RedBall Project is that it's really very funny. The absurdity of this balloon-at-large makes you smile. It also brings, like all good sculpture, a compulsion to reach out and touch.'
Matt Buchanan, The Sydney Magazine
'Every time a passerby says - 'You know, I know the perfect place to put it!' - RedBall has succeeded in creating a moment of imagination. This is the core of the Project's goal, not the object itself, but how in relation to a site and in the context of its temporary movements, the passerby can immediately take it on as an imaginative act.'
Kurt Perschke, Artist
'He exemplifies a generation that neither subscribes to the Modernist, formalist notion of redesigning, aesthicizing, beautifying, nor to the Postmodernist confrontation of injustices paved over and social needs abandoned. Aware of both, he maintains a flexible position. For artist such as Perschke, the possibilities for public art are open and multiple, unlimited as an engagement of sites and people-in-place.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'RedBall's occupation of the spaces that are taken for granted briefly foregrounds the invisible backdrop of urban life. What used to be neglected space becomes a realm of possibilities.'
Angela Melkisethian, Sculpture Magazine

Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project

Grand Rapids Ballet

The BOB

GRCC Fieldhouse

Rosa Parks Circle

UICA Opening Night

Day One Gerald Ford Museum

Gerald R. Ford Museum

RB Quotes