(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)
SPACES hosts Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Politics, produced by Temporary Services, an independent, Chicago-based collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Art Work is a newspaper and website that uses SPACES as its distribution hub. It consists of writings from artists, activists and academics on the topic of working amidst depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper will be distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico
The independently published, 40-page paper (printed at The Plain Dealer press) features the writings of Julia Bryan-Wilson, author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era (2009) and Work Ethic (2003); Holland Cotter, New York Times Art Critic and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism; Kristen Cox, Tim Kerr and Nance Klehm, editors for The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; Julie Deamer, founding director of Outpost for Contemporary Art (L.A.); Harrell Fletcher, visual artist; Futurefarmers, a collective design studio that supports art projects, artists in residencies and research interests; Robin Hewlett, artist/activist; Justseeds: Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative; Nicolas Lampert, interdisciplinary artist; Lize Mogel, interdisciplinary artist ; and Dan S. Wang, as well as other influential essayists to be announced. More Information
SPACES, Cleveland, OH, November 20 – January 15, 2010
The creators of the bi-annual journal An Architektur have convened a gathering in New York City in mid-November to explore post-capitalist space.
In the midst of another economic crisis, the organizers suggest shifting the boundaries of architectural practice so as to incorporate resistant strategies and build political momentum toward bridging the capitalist mode of spatial production.
Groundswell readers will remember our coverage of the City from Below conference earlier this year, and as such might recognize several of the names on the event’s program. Such familiar faces include Max Rameau, David Harvey, Brett Bloom, Lize Mogel and Alexis Baghat.
Wondering how to mark a decade’s passing since the Battle of Seattle? Some Londoners have a suggestion.
It’s easy to consider this a time for common reflection, since the event came to both represent and catalyze thinking around the movement of movements. Still oft-heard phrases like “another world is possible” owe their roots to the protest, and it informs much social justice thought – even the three word chant still makes headlines.
Signs of Revolt offers up a narrative for the decade, particularly of the creative resistance wrought over those ten years.
Using archive material and documentary photography and video from movement photographers and filmmakers. It reveals the story of how we got from Seattle to Copenhagen.
Works that were produced in, around, and for these social movements will be exhibited in London during the third week of November, and the show is coupled with a series of relevant talks and screenings.
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(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)
Hmm…so many institutes, schools and research-based projects as of late! A recent project called the Institute for Aesthetic Research by Daniel Lichtman and David Baumflek is holding some events at Exit Art in New York this month and next. Sounds like some good discussions and exchanges will come from this….but I can’t help but wonder – what if anything comes from these projects if they are temporary or event-based….how can we move beyond art as an event-economy in many ways – can the idea of this “Institute” be something long term and meaningful for an actual situated community – can that community be found in NYC? Cultural production outside of the realm of neoliberalism…what does that mean? Still good stuff though…
From Exit Art: As part of America for Sale, artists Daniel Lichtman and David Baumflek will host The Institute for Aesthetic Research (IAR) – a program of public events, talks and discussions focused on Art, Economics and Institutional Critique. They will attempt to translate the traditional role of the “think tank” into the sphere of cultural production and visual art. As the traditional think tank situates itself between the academy, special interests and government, the IAR will consider how to place itself critically within the circuits of distribution and legitimization of aesthetic objects and ideas. The IAR will itself be an experiment in the dynamics of cultural-political discourse. These five weekly meetings will culminate in a collectively-produced publication that explores the possibilities of cultural production in contestation, or outside the realm of Neoliberalism. (Image: University of Trash)
(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)
Last month, InCUBATE/Material Exchange/Adam Bobbette unveiled Repair Shop/Sunday Soups, a project for Conversation Pieces an exhibition at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY – currently on view until December 19th. The project invited the public to rent a space in the gallery or purchase a bowl of soup that contributed to artist grants voted on by those who contributed to the funds. Amazing!
Conversation Pieces is an exhibition that brings together projects by artists who stage, subvert, provoke, intervene in or document public dialogues. These projects have multiple, often interrelated objectives: claiming public space, time and attention to start specific conversations around specific issues; questioning the current states, definitions, and limits of dialogue in the public realm; and presenting alternative possibilities for or re-imaginings of the public through various models of participation in (variously public) dialogues.
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