Spotlight Project: MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making A Kinder World
Stations
Stations is an interactive public artwork accompanying the international tour of the play "Truth in Translation" about post-aparthied South Africa. STATIONS is a stark reminder about the healing power of forgiveness. The steel wall serves as a writing surface with markers attached to write reactions and microphones embedded in the wall to electronically record words of forgiveness and peace.
Karen Blessen, artist and founder of the non-profit arts organization TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING, and current President Diane Hosey contacted Dallas artist Nancy Rebal to discuss the idea of a traveling interactive artwork that would accompany Michael Lessac’s play, “Truth in Translation” on its world tour. An artistic collaboration grew bringing in other Dallas artists Tim Coursey and David Searcy plus James Neel. The collaboration conceived a graffiti wall which was later expanded and renamed, STATIONS: An Interactive Public Artwork.
People from all cultures, private citizens and public figures have added their voices and words including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He asked that STATIONS be brought to the inaugural gala of the Desmond Tutu Center in New York. Archbishop Tutu, other dignitaries, and citizens alike lined up to affix their thoughts and record their emotions.
The tour of the play and STATIONS began in Dallas, Texas in September 2007. In Belfast, Ireland, a recent stop in the tour, a reviewer said: “As I left the theatre I felt the urge to write a line from Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces on the forgiveness wall: Neither repentance nor forgiveness can erase an immoral act.”
STATIONS was funded by The Embrey Family Foundation. It awaits the next leg of journey to its final installation where the recorded words will be played out into the ethers surrounding the world with words of forgiveness.
Project artists
Nancy Rebal
Tim Coursey
James Neel
David Searcy
