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...
Claire Bishop
Chantal Mouffe
The idea of approaching a problem rather than representing or exposing it, and the process through which that approach oc...
With the famous and elusive Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck parked just outside, the foot traffic in and out of LAXART, a small non-profit gallery on the Culver City...
One huge challenge I see in social practice is an enormous shift in the kind of working method and knowledge base required of these artists than those who wor...
Artist Eric Steen, a recent graduate from the Social Practice MFA program at Portland State University, wrote me the following in an email yesterday:
“In ...
I would like to return to my discussion of theoretical frameworks that have been used to analyze socially-engaged artworks (oh, what a difficult term...isn't al...
This past Wednesday, I gave a brief talk on Joseph Beuys, an artist I find endlessly fascinating because of his hugely influential pedagogical ideas that extend...
@ apexart coming up...
The Incidental Person
Curated by Antony Hudek
January 6 to February 20, 2010
Opening reception: January 6, 6-8 pm
"The "Incident...
One of the issues with art that is inherently based on social exchange is that these practices have not really been clearly examined or theorized. There is a te...
Every chance I get, I climb above the city and take in the panorama. Los Angeles is particularly filmic – the mountains, the ocean, the neverending density, th...
