Note: This essay is also available on the Consumption website and as a downloadable pdf here.
On a mild day in October 2015, a group of people in striped apr...
Freehouse signage
Jeanne van Heeswijk.
Recently, in the second week of January 2014, I was invited to a conference in South Rotterdam's Afrikaanderwijk ...
At a recent conference about socially-engaged art, Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk seemed uncomfortable presenting about her ongoing work with residents in A...
All through the non-profit arts sector, this notion is rumbling the foundation of culture and widening the cracks in the walls of the ivory tower. It is not that Americans are not engaging in artistic activity – much to the contrary. They are simply choosing to participate in ways that do not include museums.
In the most recent issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, I consider the role of the university in the cloistering of the aesthetic avant-garde from po...
Last week, the fantastic Justin Langlois of Broken City Lab asked me to answer this question for an interview series they are doing:
Is social practice, as a...
Teenaged, bespectacled Magali Bravo confronts the camera straight on as she and her small brother make their way to school through the streets of South Los Ange...
I recently wrote an article on similarities in the recent evolution of anarchist groups in Los Angeles and art collectives or artists engaging in social practic...
“How might one structure an institution that is designed to problematize the idea of the institution?”
In Summer’s Artforum, Taraneh Fazeli poses this ques...
I've had a pretty ridiculous week, so forgive this quick post - with luck, I will have more time to get back to theory and inquiry this weekend. Rather than mai...