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is a collection of recorded oral histories from the original drawer owners, gathered by Napoli and Rondell Crier. The gathering of these oral histories is an ongoing project that assembles audio recordings of interviews. A selection of these recordings may be heard on the Floodwall website.
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has been displayed on the floor like tombstones in a cemetery, sometimes functioning as a memorial and other times a room that envelops the spectator. The installation has also been used as a setting for collaborative theater performances involving singing and dance.
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system, Napoli collected debris from the storm. She retrieved 750 drawers from dressers, kitchen cabinets, desks and bureaus. The empty drawers were cleaned, and the addresses of the houses were marked on the back. Napoli stated that
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The contents that remained were then photographed. The resulting objects, along with the recorded oral histories, make up the installation.
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Since the December 3, 2011 cremation of the Floodwall installation, Floodwall and its cremation lives on in an art documentary entitled,
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poses the question to its onlookers: what price are we willing to pay for the protection of the intimacy of our households?
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s first construction in 2007, Napoli has installed it in multiple ways. Sometimes installed as a monumental wall,
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The film will be shown next in the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
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was an attempt to give voice to the silence of a city in ruin and a people in Diaspora."
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Understanding Water and Before (During) After, Photographers Respond to Katrina,
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Floodwall in the Louisiana Association of Museums catalogue. Summer 2009.
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National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland. July-Aug 2010. Photo by Philip Oeschli.
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On December 3, 2011, all 700+ drawers were cremated on the banks of the
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In 2005, two months after Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the
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made its screening debut at the 2015 New Orleans Film Festival.
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stands eight feet tall and stretches as long as 192 feet.
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Curricular Conversations: Play is the (Missing) Thing
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Consulate General of the United States Krakow Poland
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installation
Jana Napoli
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans
levee
World Financial Center
Louisiana State Museum
Blanton Art Museum
Clifton Cultural Arts Center
On Piety
Prospect 1 Biennial
Previously On Piety, an auxiliary exhibition of Prospect One
Contemporary Arts Center
Archived
Wayback Machine
Deutsches Auswandererhaus/German Emigration Center
National Museum, Wrocław
Diverse Works Art Space

Floodwall Cremation
Mississippi River
Algiers Point
Wrocław
Poland
"Spare Times-Floodwall"
"New Orleans 'Floodwall' Exhibit Comes to Berlin"
"The Cultural Visualization of Hurricane Katrina"
"Biography"
"Algiers Bonfire Fueled by Hurricane Katrina Art"

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