I recently participated in the ongoing Open Engagement blog project "100 Days 100 Questions," which has employed many (100 actually) artists and organizers and ...
The below is a conversation between myself and Justin Langlois, Research Director at Broken City Lab, conducted over email this past month. Check them out at ww...
To art or not to art, that is the morally-inflected question many of these young artists are trying to work through. Certainly, works that are inherently participatory and aim to be expansive or community-based or even (gasp) aim to affect real social and political change, will involve audience and participants that do not have an art historical background or language, or indeed any way of locating what they are encountering as "art."
The three days I spent in Portland for PSU's Open Engagement Conference were blessed with perfect weather, and the city seemed lush and magical. I'd never been ...
If you didn't catch my recent Huffington Post contribution, I wanted to re-post it here. It is a reworking and reapplication of the post below from March 6th. T...