Open Engagement, Art + Social Practice
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Friday, May 17 PUBLICS PROGRAMMING LUNCHTIME PROGRAMING Panel Exhibition Workshop Panel Open Platform For OE 2013 Lexa Walsh has collaborated with the curatorial teams to bring conference goers a selection of SOCIOLOGY (OF AND) FOR ALUMS AFRICAN SOLUTION TO AMERICAN PROBLEM: CARE AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY ARTIST TALK lunch time, food-related, programming. SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART PRACTICE A sampling of past, and current works made by alumni of PSU’s READ THE QUR’AN People take supplies from an abandoned school after hurricane For the last four years, Laurenn McCubbin has been working with If we understand the sociological imagination as one which MFA in Art and Social Practice program. Featured artists include Ghana ThinkTank will host a group reading and interactive dis- Katrina and start their own school in a grocery store. Teens and a group of sex workers, interviewing them about their lives in and FOODPHREAKING PDX searches out, designs and reveals interconnections between Katherine Ball, Varinthorm Christopher, Parallel University, Ar- cussion of the Qur’an with members from the community. This adults gather in a museum and lead 10-minute workshops on out of the industry. McCubbin asked them to send her an object FoodPhreaking PDX is a pop-up food hack lab that will be run- personal troubles and social issues, between biography and his- iana Jacob, Zach Springer, Hannah Jickling, Eric Steen, Lexa session will be used as an intercultural workspace, classroom, topics that they are passionate about. Adults with mental diver- that they associate with sex work, so that she could investigate ning in Portland, Oregon in May and June 2013. For Open En- tory, might we not find parallels and intersections between so- Walsh, and Jason Zimmerman. and tea lounge. Copies of the text will be provided and traditional sities are supported in showing their art in galleries and growing how to collaboratively place the products of sexual labor into gagement we will open our lab to conference attendees and ciological method and socially engaged art practice? This work- Moroccan tea will be served. food for 30 families in Portland. Models for collaboration toward new contexts both in and out of the gallery space. For her proj- serve them a small meal. The primary research project at the shop, led by the Institute for Art Scene Studies seeks to critically positive change are emerging everywhere with care as the fun- ect for XCO, she chose four spaces: formal, gallery, installation FoodPhreaking PDX lab is “A Curry for Cascadia”: developing a explore ways that sociological methods might be combined with, Open Platform damental element. Six artists and educators who cite care as be- and public. McCubbin’s presentation for Open Engagement will national dish for the Cascadia Separatist movement. Vegan and or applied to, ways of interpreting art and the performative Panel ing crucial to their practice will discuss their work in relation to show the documentation of the interaction of these sexualized THE ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB REPORT gluten free options will be available. scenes art stimulates. Through dialogue we bring into question questions around care as a guiding philosophy. objects with each of these spaces. WHAT’S THE HARM OF COMMUNITY ARTS our received notions of both social and artistic research, while The Order of the Third Bird is a small group of practitioner-friends AND SOCIAL PRACTICE? THE ETHICS The Center for Genomic Gastronomy is an independent re- simultaneously pointing towards new scripts and new perfor- working at the convergence of performance, aesthetic theory, Carmen Papalia, Kristin Lantz, Rachel Mulder, Sunaura Taylor, Carla and what might be termed “art-appreciation.” Their aim is to OF ENGAGEMENT AND NEGATIVE VALUE Bergman, Rozzell Medina, Nat Turner, and Jordan Martin. search institute that studies the genomes and biotechnol- mances in the art world. Project evolve protocols of sustained attention suitable to the occasion Community art and social practice as participatory forms of ogies that make up the human food system on planet earth. The Center presents its research through public lectures, The Institute for Art Scene Studies is a project of Pablo Helguera, of a work of art, and to mobilize this shared practice in a series of art have long histories of engaging publics in contemporary so- MENDING PATRIOTISM workshops, publications, meals and exhibitions. They have Barbara Adams, David Peppas and Adeola Enigbokan. The Insti- interventions and engagements. For this presentation, Sal Ran- cial issues through collaborative engagement in local contexts. Mending Patriotism takes the form of an old-fashioned sewing worked extensively in Europe, Asia and North America. tute brings together artists and social researchers to interpret dolph, an associate of the Order, will report on recent investiga- This turn to community in the arts rarely receives critical re- Open Platform bee, in which participants sew a quilt made from clothing cast genomicgastronomy.com the behavioral scripts and performances, which arise around tions into the topic of attention, touching on history, experimen- view. Amidst the ever positive connotations of “community” and OUT OF THE SHADOWS: off by migrants crossing Mexico’s Sonoran desert towards the contemporary art. tal research, and experience. Particular notice will be taken of “participation,” this panel considers the potential for harm/ UNDOCUMENTED AND UNAFRAID U.S. border. This workshop provides a space for learning and ex- such evidence as has come to light regarding relevant activities negative value in these arts practices. Even as Benjamin (1978) change around the issues of border-crossing, human migration, Annabel Manning’s Out of the Shadows: Undocumented and Un- and theories from earlier times and distant places. encouraged the “advanced” artist on the left to intervene, like and national identity. Quilts have historically been used to signi- afraid is a collaborative art project with the Immigrant Youth TALK IS CHEAP Project the revolutionary worker, he also warned it was “an impossible fy safe houses, most notably on the Underground Railroad. In our Forum, “undocumented and unafraid” Latino high school and Talk Is Cheap. I know it. You know it. We all know it. In fact, place.” Panelists will explore a new taxonomy of potential harm: modern day how do people seeking refuge identify allies? In what GETTING TO KNOW YOU(TUBE) college students in the Triangle area (NC) who are “coming out.” talk is so cheap that is practically free! Yet we sometimes pay a Open Platform non/consensual engagement in public interventions, extended ways can we as individuals participate in nation-wide concerns? Following opening remarks, stick around and share your favorite We created an exhibition with artworks by me, the youth, and us steep price when we misspeak...Talk Is Cheap: Unincorporated colonial practices of exploiting vulnerable communities, poten- What is our collective vision of the future of patriotism and na- YouTube videos with other conference participants as a way of TEENS/PROTEST working collaboratively, all aiming to provoke the public’s com- Language Laboratories has set up experiments that, through tial for spectacle, compromise and collaboration, blurred lines tional identity? On display will also be Juna Rosales Muller’s orig- getting to know each other and the vast wonders that the inter- Teens/Protest is a presentation by Teresa Albor about a solu- plicity. It has seven distinct parts: photo-portraits, sunprints questions about language and miscommunication, explore hy- of copyright, and the increased instrumentalization and insti- inal quilts made from migrants’ discarded clothes. net has to offer. Show us something funny, informative, musical, tion-based project addressing the artist’s analysis of the lack (plus Rogues gallery), monoprints, interactive installation with bridizing migrant practices. T.I.C believes alternative forms of tutionalization of “outsider” practices by government and art cute, mystical—whatever you’re into! Together, we will climb into of institutional attempts to challenge negative media imag- cameras and mirrors, photo IDs, surveillance room and sound- knowledge are valuable, so we have taken our research to the worlds. es of protest or provide historical context in Chicago. Working bites. The exhibition opened at Duke University in April 2013, and YouTube’s deepest caverns of collective consciousness and un- Open Platform street. Our first lab is Pura Cháchara, a mobile bike-b-q unit through an established high school art programme run by art- later at the Levine Museum of the New South. earth hidden treasures, stretching the boundaries of what tubes Dr. Marnie Badham , Amy Spiers, Dr. Kathleen Irwin, Claude Schryer which we use to collect oral histories about miscommunication and you were meant for. ists, Teresa Albor has been enabled to explore protest with teens AFFIRMATION HOTLINE in exchange for delicious homemade arepas! through music, the creation of protest props and mock protests, Affirmation Hotline is a project by Lisa Ciccarello and Steve Getting to Know You(Tube) was started in 2011 by artists Crys- with the assistance of local artist John Swain. The work is less Project Open Platform Leathers that uses an automated answering service to deliver Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz is a transnational artist with con- tal Baxley and Stefan Ransom as a way to cruise YouTube with about approaching social activism through appropriation of