Jay Critchley

Video installation @ Ptown Film Fest: Grace Gouveia – Smoking Bomb; BANNED ON LONG POINT as HAZARD TO NAVIGATION.

// June 20th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Video banned from Long Point Lighthouse as “hazard to navigation”;
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Jay Critchley’s homage to Grace Gouveia to show at Provincetown Film Fest at Aquarium Mall Aqua Bar on June 16;

Long Point of View Theater: Grace Gouveia – Smoking Bomb.

Just let me live in a simple world
Where I can climb my heights
Or sink to my lowest depths
Without your comment or neon lights. – Grace Gouveia
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An experimental video by Provincetown artist Jay Critchley – Grace Gouveia: Smoking Bomb – has been banned from being projected onto Long Point Lighthouse, deemed by the US Coast Guard as a “hazard to navigation”, but will be shown instead at the Aquarium Mall Aqua Bar. The video, which is editied by Carol Pugliese and Critchley, is sponsored by the Provincetown Community Compact and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is a selection at the Provincetown International Film Festiva. It will be shown on Thursday, June 16 at 9:00pm. Free and open to the public.

Grace Gouveia was a teacher, activist and poet who arrived from Oloa, Portugal at the age of seven. Artists and writers were fleeing Europe during World War I for the US – Grennwich Village and Provincetown. It was 1916, the year playwright Eugene O’Neill’s first play was performed on a wharf in town. The European diaspora settled in.

The Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. (The Compact) was established in 1993 by Jay Critchley as a community-building and philanthropic organization to support living artists and the vitality of the arts community.

The mission of The Compact is to advance the cultural well being of Provincetown, its people, and the natural environment of the Lower Cape. The Compact also acts as an incubator (think-ubator) for social, environmental and artistic projects. It manages two dune shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore and sponsors the annual Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, set this year fon September 10.

www.thecompact.org

www.provincetownlightkeepers.org

Special thanks to: Massachusetts Cultural Council, Mitch Rosenberg, WOMR FM, Joyce Johnson, Juilia Cohen, Beth O’Rourke, Provincetown Community Television (PTV), Ginny Binder, Provincetown Visitor Services Board, David Ellis, Don Beal, David Fortuna, Lauren Richmond, Seth Rolbein, Provincetown USA, Joseph Mantegna, Ptown Diaries, Carl Gouveia, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum. Paul Mendes, Paul Bowen, Ben DeRuyter, Aquarium Mall Aqua Bar.

Stills from video installation, Provincetown Harbor beach: Grace Gouveia – Smoking Bomb by Jay Critchley, edited by Carol Pugliese & Jay Critchley, 6-16-11, Aquarium Mall Aqua Bar, Provincetown International Film Festival.

Nuclear Power Report: 14 “near misses” in 2009/10

// March 25th, 2011 // No Comments » // My Blog, Uncategorized

One of the near misses was at Diablo Canyon in San Luis Obispo, California, which sits on an earthquake fault. This Seismic Radiation Institute at Diablo Canyon was proposed in 1988.

National Seismic Radiation Institute at Diablo Canyon

Re-Rooters Day Ceremony-Cape Cod Times-Eric Williams

// January 15th, 2011 // No Comments » // My Blog, Re-rooters Day Ceremony, Uncategorized

Here is the video from the Cape Cod Times of the 2011 Re-Rooters Day Ceremony

Artist acquires historic outhouse

// December 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Blog, Uncategorized

Old outhouse to get new, artistic lease on life
By Pru Sowers

Russell, Jay & Wayne before the Prize.

PROVINCETOWN — Restoration of old buildings is a time-honored tradition in this historic town. But the owners of possibly the last outhouse here are taking historic preservation to a new level.

Russell Friedman and Wayne Briggs, the owners of 8 Fishburn Court, a Cape-style home built in 1850, didn’t know they had an outhouse in their backyard when they purchased the property in September 2009. But after their broker told them about the undated structure, they weren’t quite sure what to do with it. While there are a few working outhouses connected with the dune shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore, Friedman said he thinks this may be the last outhouse within Provincetown town limits.

Fast forward to this year, when the two men decided to make some renovations to the home that would involve getting rid of the outhouse. Even though the structure was still standing, “standing” was a bit of a stretch, as the outhouse was decidedly tilted and only about half upright.

“It was a little bit past keeping,” Friedman said. “But since it did have some historical value, when Jay contacted us, we thought it would be great to preserve it.”

“Jay” is Jay Critchley, local artist and organizer of the Swim for Life, who has preserved a below-ground cesspool on his property and used it on occasion for theatrical performances. A friend told him about the imminent demise of the outhouse and he called up Friedman and Briggs, proposing to take down the structure and rebuild it on his property. And true to his word, Critchley showed up at Friedman and Briggs’ home last week and proceeded to dismantle the outhouse. He’s not quite sure what he’s going to do with it yet; “It’s an intuitive thing,” he said. Critchley joked that he may be able to rent it to tourists who descend on the town in the summer, eventually needing a bathroom break.

“I could use it as an outhouse summer rental. I could turn it on its side, a traveling outhouse art gallery. I could use it as a meditation space,” he said. “You acquire something and it speaks to you.”

INSURGENT BODIES, closes Aug 11

// August 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized