Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically
Joe Bigley is touring Afghanistan, creating what may be the largest ever social sculpture. This Afghanistan is not the territory that comes to mind, that geopolitical entity bordering China, Pakistan, Iran, and the others, but only its outline, traced within the United States, with a 3,435.5 mile bicycle ride beginning and ending at Ground Zero. [...]
Aman Mojadidi, the Jihadi Gangster
American-born Afghan artist Aman Mojadidi has caught the attention of Afghanistan’s art scene, and Western eyes as powerful as the Wall Street Journal. His work intends to provoke, using his dual cultural heritage, and the hefty subject of jihad to satirize contemporary Afghan politics and social mores. Below is a selection from his A Day [...]
Ai Weiwei Works Here
Public Ideation is a periodic offering from Groundswell that allows more discursive space than our usual posts. Here, authors get to think out loud, and we invite your feedback. Want this to be your soapbox? Get in touch. Weiwei Works Here, 2011, by Amy Harwood and Ryan Pierce On January 11, 2011 the studios of [...]
Susan Buck-Morss and Wafaa Bilal Join OCADU’s Art Creates Change Series
Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series at OCADU This February, Toronto’s OCAD University offers the Kym Pruesse speaker series titled Art Creates Change. Susan Buck-Morss and Wafaa Bilal (previously seen on Groundswell) will each speak in the first half of the month, on February 3rd and 10th respectively. Below is more information about [...]
Iraq Veterans Against the War and Just Seeds Combine Forces for Operation Exposure: War is Trauma
Chicago’s corporate ad space was taken over last Monday by street art advocating for the care of traumatized veterans, and against their redeployment. Just Seeds teamed up with Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) veterans and supporters for Operation Exposure: War is Trauma, a part of the ongoing series held by the National Veterans Art [...]
