Cornelia Hesse-Honegger paints morphologically disturbed insects, their malformation caused by human-made radiation.
Razzle Dazzle | An NYU student is developing makeup techniques that “could render very expensive facial recognition technology utterly useless.” [Animal]
Dirty Money | Mel Chin’s Fundred Project, an arts-driven advocacy effort to make safe the lead-contaminated soil in US cities, is coming to Boston’s ICA on April 9th. [Fundred]
From the Ashes, Literally | Can you create an artwork from industrial spoil? Falkirk Council invites submissions for socially engaged works. [Arts & Ecology]
Jacob Chamberlain deliberates on public art and integrity at Provisions Library
Built to Thrive | We often wonder how and why some terrible ideas manage to stick and survive. Shareable is hosting a forum to get at how good ideas can do the same. [Shareable]
Speaking of Thriving | Red Sun Press, our local movement print shop, did a short video protesting the Chamber of Commerce. [Red Sun Press]
Urban Bumpkins | The Berwick Research Institute has put out a call for a summertime art encampment, in which homesteaders will create public art installations on the Boston Harbor Islands. [Bumpkin Island Art Encampment]
We’ve lent a hand to sprout‘s spaghetti dinner this month, the theme of which is transportation and public space. The street has multiple identities, from state-held transportation infrastructure to a place for carnival and public joy. It’s a popular site of social contest, so much so that it’s axiomatic for use in reference to protest: before we overthrow a government, we must first “take to the streets.” It’s also one of the last remaining spaces that is not totally privatized. Each of the performers, activists, and cyclists uniquely address a definition of this space they help to create.
This Wednesday, we’ll hear from:
Appropriately (and as always) Food Not Bombs will dish up the spaghetti. Dinner will be served at 7:30PM, performances begin at 8. The address is 339R Summer St., Somerville MA.
Put that Where? | Art in Odd Places, a festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life, is accepting submissions. [AIOP Blog]
It’s Just Seeds | Our friend Josh MacPhee is at Red Emma’s in Baltimore tonight at 7PM to talk about Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today. [Red Emma's]
Public Process | Cambridge, MA, is commissioning ten public artists for a mile-long installation on busy Cambridge Street. Proposals range from real-life Twitter birds to the world’s largest potluck. [Cambridge Arts Council]
In combination with the Boston distribution of Art Work, a free newspaper dedicated to art and labor in the economic crisis, we invite you to a conversation about art and work with artists and cultural producers Meg Rotzel and Kelly Sherman.
Click to download a print-ready version of the poster.
Rotzel and Sherman will discuss the ways that their “art-work” and their “work-work” coincide and mutually inform each other.
This program is an informal conversation and a pot-luck dinner. Please bring food, ideas, and stories to share.
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics is a newspaper produced by Temporary Services, a Chicago-based collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. The paper, conceived as an exhibition and discussion prompt, addresses how artists, critics, activists and others work within the framework of economic conditions.
Organized by independent curator Rebecca Uchill and hosted by the Design Center for Social Intervention (DS4SI), At Work takes place on April 7th, 2010.
RSVP on Facebook.
Disclosure: We did the poster and distribute the Art Work newspaper.
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