Artiscycle, a project of the Institute for Applied Aesthetics, explores and visualizes applied aesthetic models of participation, learning, and collaboration, that help form authentic communities. Six guiding principles inform the running of their physical space, while the Manifesto for Applied Aesthetics describes their paradigm.
Amy Franceschini describes:
The idea is to develop an appendix of best practices from collaborative artists and educators at the forefront of interdisciplinary practice and to incubate a re-imagined community learning space that will house the Institute.
Eventually, Artiscycle’s database of field research will be built into a platform for interdisciplinary exchange. The group is currently seeking submissions.
Tomas Saraceno, Flying Garden (detail), 2006. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
On show at Barbican June 19 through October 18, 2009, Radical Nature highlights a 40-year history of environmentally concerned artists, activists, architects and other Utopian thinkers. The result is promoted as “one fantastical landscape, with each piece introducing into the gallery space a dramatic portion of nature. ”
The curators have commissioned special, and restaged historical installations, within a cross-generational show. Key figures such as
the architectural collective Ant Farm and visionary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, artists Joseph Beuys, Agnes Denes, Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson are shown alongside pieces by a younger generation of practitioners including Heather and Ivan Morison, R&Sie(n) , Philippe Rahm architects and Simon Starling.
Radical Nature can’t rightly be called a retrospective, but it succeeds in that way, capturing pivotal moments and players from nearly a half-century, and, appropriately, paying attention to the shifting ground on which they worked.
Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Dismantling the Corporate State and Other Amusements opened June 19th.
Josh MacPhee of JustSeeds dug up the portfolio of the 1970s-80s UK radical print makers, the Poster Film-Collective.
Coagula Art Journal released Issue #98, with an cover-story interview with Finishing School.
The Work Office: informed by the WPA, a gesture to “make work” for visual & performing arts. (Thanks, Eve!)
The Design Studio for Social Intervention pointed us to a plethora of infographics to help you understand the financial crisis.
Resistance Studies Magazine released its call for theoretical and empirical articles on power, resistance and social change.
“Art Group Mistakenly Believes it is Fighting Recession” made for an Onion-worthy headline, only it’s for real (via @culturepundits).
Who couldn’t love the Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry?
The second coming of Provisions Library’s Close Encounters features 14 artists with distinct acts of social imagination, the premiere performance of Floating Lab Collective’s Screamer, and musical guests the Tom Gardner Trio.
Our intention with Close Encounters is to create an autonomous zone– a workshop– where difficult questions and ideas about the state of the world can interact in sometimes disturbing but always thought-provoking ways. . .The exhibition’s design, which includes relevant books from Provisions Library, invites deeper reflection and dialogue.
Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination opens June 25th at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in NYC.
(Milwaukee-based street artist and object maker Jesse Graves is a guest blogger for Groundswell.)
Jeremy Novy is a street artist currently living and working in San Francisco. Novy uses his art to beautify spaces and draw attention to issues that affect everyone:
I am using what the city hates the most (spray paint and wheat paste) to fix or address the city’s problems. I also like the idea that everyone sees street art unlike museum art were the rich and educated only see it.
Novy wheat pastes images of inviting windows and doors over abandoned, boarded-up buildings. This act brings forgotten places to the attention of city officials and community members in hope these places will once again be productive homes and businesses.
By pasting electrical outlets on dumpsters, Novy invites pedestrians to consider the energy that is in our trash.
Novy also creates work that’s purpose is to bring beauty to dull spaces, like schools of stenciled Koi fish, or silly robots.
Formally trained in Photography, Novy uses his camera to capture nuances that a street artist observes, but may not be apparent to others – like the layered painting created by multiple taggers and city workers writing and painting over the same surfaces.
Visit his website to see more work.
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