Our friends at Social Design Site have launched a new blogging effort, just in time for 2009. An adjunct to SocialDesignSite.com, SocialDesignBlog.org will complement its parent site with a deeper problematization of the issues presented in projects on SocialDesignSite. Interested in publishing your thoughts on social design? They’re seeking contributors.
Thanks, Kate!
We couldn’t let the chance to lend a hand to our friends and allies slip by, so while you’re pondering what to do with that massive check grandma gave you, allow us to make a few suggestions:
Arguably our most important discovery in 2008, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest is a self-described weirdo thinktank whose impressive work keeps surfacing in our own practice. Donations to JOAAP are handled through their fiscal sponsors, Pond.
HONK! is a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions. Joyous community bands have begun to emerge in every corner of the world from the ashes of modern-day gloom, and could use your support for the next festival in 2009. Donate online here.
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who engage in personal expression and collective action to transform society. Click here to donate to Justseeds.
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Through its varied programs, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to inspire people to action. Donations are accepted online here, and via mail [PDF].
And, if you have a few pennies still left over, your help supporting our work would be much appreciated!
Dan Tague’s Church and State from Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Dan Tague and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery are reproducing Tague’s Cash Rules Everything Around Me as a line of t-shirts. One dollar from the sale of each t-shirt will be donated to the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity. I like Tague’s work, it has a similar appeal to Cildo Meireles’ Banknote Project, but, per Meireles, if we think of these commodities as an insertion into ideological circuits, it strips the subversive, disruptive qualities away, and Cash Rules Everything Around Me is no longer understood as an observation or social criticism, but an ethos. Then again, Meireles is in the Tate – voluntarily – and, though I don’t plan to purchase one, I would wear a Tague t-shirt. Thoughts?
Union Docs, in collaboration with Free103point9, recently presented Chorus of Refuge, a sound installation that transmits the stories of six refugees, to six radios. The voices of the refugees, who live in different cities across the U.S., are superimposed and coordinated in both rhythm and tonality to unite their narratives of struggle, survival and triumph. Arranged by composer Jason Cady, radio producer Ann Heppermann and former UnionDocs resident Kara Oehler, the installation was presented publicly on December 13th.
You can hear more about Chorus of Refuge on WNYC’s Art.Cult podcast, and listen to the first movement, AfghanistanBurmaBurundiIraqSomaliaSudan, here.
Thanks, Will!
Krzysztof Wodiczko has created more than 70 public projections over three decades. The works frequently speak to issues of human rights, democracy, violence, alienation, and inhumanity, and using sound and motion often include testimonies of the people whose plights they address. Wodiczko, born in Poland, now lives in Cambridge, MA, where he is completing a permanent responsive media public art project commissioned by the city, and scheduled to open this month. His most recent work, The Veterans Vehicle Project, was created in collaboration with American military veterans for Dialog:City.
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