On June 25th in Paris I witnessed a tenderly moving performance by the artist Nicola (no last name, but not to be confused with the Nicola, no last name, who sang “Don't Break My Heart” at Romania 2003live Eurovision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYw4Ze1nK2k). Our Nicola fashioned here a group occurrence entitled "La Cape du Blues" (The Cape of Blues) at Place Saint-Sulpice as part of "Les artistes cassent la baraque" (with the assistance of Galerie Patricia Dorfmann). Some of you may be familiar with Nicola’s late-1960s/early-1970s group street performances such as Red Coat: Same Skin For Everybody and the outstanding 1975 piece Rug. This performance was very much in the same vein, this time involving 12 performers, 1 saxophonist, and Nicola herself, who directed the event - with a crowd of around 50 people all watching and walking along following the pageant.

The Ballona Theory Project is a design theory project initiated and advanced by Terry Hargrave in collaboration with media artist Christina McPhee and a group of students in third year undergraduate architectural design studio at California Polytechnic in the winter quarter 2007.
model/mikaela spielman/ballona theory project/ hargrave+mcphee studio 2007: ballona theory project 2007