A Good Problem to Have: Neighborhood Time Exchange’s Alternative Economy of Renewal
We live in a world of collapsing roles, collapsing economies, and proliferating sub-identities. At an extreme, obscure YouTube stars of every ilk get tens of mi...
From Freehouse to Neighborhood Co-op: The Birth of a New Organizational Form
I recently wrote this article for the new Grant Kester-edited journal coming out of University of California, San Diego called Field, and it was a wonderful opp...
This House Is Every House: The Journey of “Funeral for a Home”
What follows is the essay I wrote about the Temple Contemporary-initiated project in Philadelphia called Funeral for a Home. This is the result of nearly a year...
When a Rock Hits Steel: Glenn Kaino’s Meditation on Political Agency
Note: This essay was produced in collaboration with the artist for his solo show Leviathan at Kavi Gupta Chicago, on view through December 20, 2014.
Now Do ...
Homebaked: Updated
I was recently asked by the Liverpool Biennial to expand an article on Jeanne van Heeswijk's Homebaked project in Anfield, Liverpool that originally appeared on...
How Can We Get Paid?
In December of last year, I left my beloved art world job for something completely different - a field in which I was a total newbie (the entertainment industry...
Open Engagement: Does it end at art?
I recently participated in the ongoing Open Engagement blog project "100 Days 100 Questions," which has employed many (100 actually) artists and organizers and ...
Freehouse
Freehouse signage
Jeanne van Heeswijk.
Recently, in the second week of January 2014, I was invited to a conference in South Rotterdam's Afrikaanderwijk ...
Hubs and Hybrids: Seven Artist-Run Spaces in Los Angeles
My collaborator Emily Anne Kuriyama and I have been speaking with artist-run spaces in Los Angeles, most of which have started in the past three or four years, ...
The Creative Time Summit Dispatch #2: Passion, Empathy, and People (or, After Lunch)
Lunch was interesting. Called "The Sixth Borough" it was an art/food project, or perhaps an aesthetic food experience curated and designed and made by artist St...