Battlegrounds

is a city-wide, site-specific, augmented reality (AR) public art activation in New Orleans curated by Nancy Baker Cahill and Jesse Damiani, which interprets the word "Battleground" as broadly as possible. We have geo-located 30 thematically related artworks in AR created by 24 local artists at the contested locations of their 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. Battlegrounds offers a new type of subversive public art that asks for no permission but attempts to prompt thoughtful discourse around the most urgent issues the artwork and sites represent for the larger community they serve. This is an unapologetically political project, and does no environmental harm in a region of the country that is most vulnerable to climate change. Community programming and workshops are essential to this project. Special thanks to Megan Koza Mitchell, Dawn Dedeaux, Keith Calhoun, and Chandra McCormick, to Fulcrum Arts for being our fiscal sponsor, and to all who contributed gifts large and small to make this exhibition possible. Nic Aziz, Family Dinner: Finger Clickin’ GOOD, 2019 Ron Bechet, A Love Supreme, 2018 Allison Beondé, Bedside Flowers, IV, 2018 Jennifer Blanchard, The Corps Is Careless, 2019 Jennifer Blanchard, The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, 2019 Lily Brooks, Kudzu and Tree near Site of Kugler Cemetery, May 22, 2019 Lily Brooks, Dow Chemical Through Open Bays, May 22, 2019 Keith Calhoun, Sunlit Nightmare, 2006 Keith Calhoun, Travis Trumpet Black Hill Funeral, 2015 Hannah Chalew, Toxic Ecology, 2019 Dawn DeDeaux, Acid Frog Rising, 2019 Dawn DeDeaux, ACID FROG SEARCH AND RESCUE: THE NEW ORLEANS SUPERDOME, 2019 Jan Gilbert, Call to DisArm: Yearbook, 2011-19, Snow Job sound by Metronome the City L.Kasimu, The Vanishing Black Lounge, 20 Ana Hernandez, SLAVERY TIME, 2016 Horton Humble, Devil's Drum, 2017 Chandra McCormick, Holy Family Spiritual Church Chandra McCormick, Grandma Phennie and Keith,1993 Leah Floyd + Cristina Molina, River River, 2018, Still from video. Jennifer Odem, Rising Table, 2018 Rontherin Ratliff, Never The Twain Shall Meet, 2017 Kristina Kay Robinson, Temple of Color and Sound, 2019 Jonathan Traviesa, New Cartographics, II, 2019