Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection

Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection

Among the thoughts of Occuprint designers, Julie Gueraseva writes, a few stand out: “This poster must be of tremendous urgency and relevance; it must agitate and disturb; it must stop you dead in your tracks; it must enlighten and inspire you to act. This poster must be so compelling that distributing it becomes essential. This poster requires courage.”

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

James David Morgan

Creative Time will realize its most ambitious project yet this fall, with its third annual summit and the opening of Living As Form, a show by 25 curatorial advisers surveying more than 350 socially engaged projects.

Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

James David Morgan

The Israeli interior ministry recently authorized construction to begin on Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance despite protestations that its siting will violate the historic Ma’man Allah, or the Mamilla Cemetery.

Pro-Bono Design Work as a Protective Layer for Capitalism – Scapegoat Journal’s Issue 01: Service

Pro-Bono Design Work as a Protective Layer for Capitalism – Scapegoat Journal’s Issue 01: Service

James David Morgan

Scapegoat Journal’s Issue 01: Service charges that the charity acts of designers, artists, and architects are, they claim, a neoliberal stand-in for for the state.

Fuse Magazine, Performing Politics for 35 Years

Fuse Magazine, Performing Politics for 35 Years

James David Morgan

Fuse Magazine turns 35 this year, and to celebrate, its new edition reviews several decades of the most stirring authorship contributed to Canada’s foremost critical periodical on art, culture, and politics.

Sean Martindale Explores the Politics of Place with Love The Future / Free Ai Weiwei at Whippersnapper Gallery

Sean Martindale Explores the Politics of Place with Love The Future / Free Ai Weiwei at Whippersnapper Gallery

James David Morgan

Groundswell was recently invited to contribute an exhibition essay for Sean Martindale’s Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei, a sculptural installation at Whippersnapper Gallery through the end of this month.