THE WORKBOOK MAP 2013 Projects that restore and preserve the environment, promote social justice, and advance human knowledge and well-being. Produced by MAP – Make Art with Purpose. Published in conjunction with the festival and exhibition MAP 2013: Projects that Restore and Preserve the Environment, Promote Social Justice and Advance Human Knowledge and Well-Being Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, Mesquite and Richardson, Texas October 1 - November 24, 2013 MAP 2013 was made possible with major support from An Anonymous Donor, Bowdon Family Foundation, Harold Simmons Foundation, Judith Lifson, Embrey Family Foundation, Neiman Marcus and Downtown Dallas, Inc. Additional Support from Chavez and Valko, Humanities Texas, Honorary Consulate of the Slovak Republic in Texas, Matthews Southwest, Slovak Ministry of Culture, Craft and Growler, individual contributors including Sylvia Hoagland, Ken Downing and Lindsey and Patrick Collins and MAP 2013 partner organizations. Media Sponsor: Paper City Produced and Published by MAP – Make Art with Purpose Dallas, Texas USA Editor and Art Director, Janeil Engelstad Essay Editors, Rumiel Rothschild and Nan Wise Copy Editor, Nina Chantanapumma Graphic Designer, Delaney Smith Title page illustrations and MAP logos, Oto Hudec Printed and bound by Texas Graphics Cover: Mohawk Loop Body: Environment Text, Made with 100% Certified Renewable Energy 4 5 ©2013 MAP – Make Art with Purpose All Rights Reserved Overleaf illustration, Oto Hudec, 2013 ISBN 978-0-615-88257-4 INTRODUCTION At its heart, MAP 2013 is about creating a The artists, architects, designers, educators and No one person can answer the questions of meaning space for group work – bringing people and organizations that are a part of MAP 2013 are at in this world today. And, as has always been the case, organizations together to produce projects rooted the forefront of this movement. no one person who has an answer (and there are such in art, which start productive conversations and create positive change around critical issues that The projects produced for MAP 2013 connect to people) can simply give it to another ready-made. have a local and global impact. issues of specific concern to the greater Dallas No, it is thinking together, under strong conditions – Fort Worth community, as well as to the wider of serious search, that a new understanding can Problems connected to climate change, social world. You can read about these projects in Part I justice and other pressing concerns have not of this book. Part II features essays about project- be approached. Group communication, group been solved by relying upon the usual alignments based art and Part III introduces new proposals pondering, is the real art form of our time. and networks. It’s time to build new partnerships and projects by MAP affiliate artists. Part IV is a that include people from diverse backgrounds, directory with information about each MAP 2013 - Jacob Needleman bringing different experiences, knowledge and artist, organization and event. skills to the table. More than a record of an exhibition, The MAP Indeed, collaborative change-making projects 2013 Workbook is a place of ideas, conversation are beginning to happen on both micro and starters and of hope. It is meant to inspire. Take macro levels throughout the world. One of MAP’s notes, question, agree, disagree, wonder and objectives has been to produce and present this let your imagination go. When you are finished work through our programs and social networks. reading here, you can continue the journey at Grounded in consciousness and service, valuing makeartwithpurpose.net, where you will find the process as much as the end result, MAP is information about other artists and organizations an effort towards cooperation that will benefit dedicated to producing art that uplifts our greater humanity as a whole. Our intention with MAP global community. 2013 is to realize these objectives more fully by exploring the diverse ways that project-based art Janeil Engelstad can interact with, and impact, communities. Director MAP – Make Art with Purpose / MAP 2013 Working in partnership with people and organizations from other disciplines, artists are generating new ideas and methods for tackling 6 urban, social and environmental problems. Their 7 expertise and skills are valuable resources that are helping us to shape and advance public policy. I: THE PROJECTS 8 9 PROCESS ORIGIN The Agents of Change methodology is a process The Agents of Change project was collaboratively of Deep Listening. developed (2006/2007) by James Reed, Practice Based Researcher, and Shelley Sacks, Director The Agents of Change methodology, which is of the Social Sculpture Research Unit at Oxford used to engage with the process of reflection and Brookes University (www.social-sculpture.org), orientation, is made up of group conversations, as a creative initiative of Earth Agenda, now research apparatus, and a Public Research University of the Trees. James Reed, based in Intervention. Portland, Oregon, is the project leader for the Agents of Change project. There are three stages. The first stage is a discussion is opened through Group Conversation. The second stage includes work ‘On Site’ — the Public Intervention — with the Agents of Change kit. Each Agent of Change (kitted out) stands along the water’s edge in a public space. The kit is made up of a set of life jackets, 10 foot tall AGENTS OF CHANGE water measuring sticks (indicating the level of the James Reed ocean in 2107) and a small journal. Eastfield College The third stage involves connecting people’s What is the potential of your profound thought in these times of Deep Crises? understanding from their experiences and thoughts through Group Reflection and This question is the foundation for the Agents of Change process, to be used by people where the Discussion. Ocean levels rising 10 feet by the year 2107 will affect lives. Agents of Change is a thought space that expands the potential of our profound thought through working as a Social Organism. It is an opportunity to reflect on concerns and issues that emerge from profound insights and explore their relevance in relation to Climate Change. 10 11 The Agents of Change project is a Social Sculpture Deep Connective Intervention. The Agents of Change project is a new method of engagement. Opposite Agents of Change, Muizenberg South Africa, Photograph, James Reed, 2010 THE ART OF SAHRAWI HOSPITALITY Robin Kahn & La Cooperativa Unidad Nacional Mujeres Saharauis (The National Union of Women from Western Sahara) Main Street Garden and Ro2 Art The Art of Sahrawi Hospitality is an interactive At MAP 2013, The Art of Sahrawi Hospitality installation inspired by Kahn’s project, Dining in included the raising of a typical Sahrawi tent, (or Refugee Camps: The Art of Sahrawi Cooking, a “haima”) by a group of Sahrawi women. In Dallas, cookbook produced in solidarity with the people as in every Sahrawi household, the tent functioned of Western Sahara. as the center of social life where families met as a group, and with friends, to relax together, drink In 2009, Kahn was invited to create an art project in tea and enjoy each other’s company. the Tindouf Refugee Camps in Southwest Algeria where the majority of the Sahrawi population With the women in charge of this domain, have been living since 1975 when they fled from hospitality is the catalyst for social engagement armed forces invading from Morocco.1 Kahn providing a welcoming sanctuary where, “the spent a month cooking with Sahrawi women in public is invited… into the heart of the Sahrawi their improvised kitchens and eating with their world… to not only learn about their plight but families in order to document the traditions and also appreciate through the beauty of their rituals of the Sahrawi meal through the women’s creation, the role of art in making a new and personal stories of survival. Through photos, better world.”2 drawings and images, the cookbook is a culinary journal that provides a view into the complex Produced in partnership with Downtown Dallas, Inc. roles that Sahrawi women assume in order to provide strength, hope and history to a society 1 For information about the history of the Western Sahara: Western Sahara Resource Center (www. compromised by war, occupation and exile. In the WesternSaharaResourceCenter.blogspot.com), BBC camps, Sahrawi women have empowered their News Africa (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world- communities by forming a series of educational, africa-14115273) and the U.S. Department of State (http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/nea/825. cultural and social cooperatives that structure htm) daily life. These initiatives provide a sense of 2 Michael Taussig, The Guidebook, dOCUMENTA(13) “home” to a population who are “homeless.” 2012, p.268 12 13 Opposite The Art of Sahrawi Hospitality, collage on paper, 2013 BIODIAMOND ENERGY Mick Lorusso Perot Museum of Nature and Science Biodiamond Energy presents and encourages At the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the idea of transforming discarded organic workshop participants helped Lorusso assemble matter into energy through a series of proposals, and feed Microbial Fuel Cells that powered workshops and installations. A long term the light for a DIY computer microscope. This proposal for Biodiamond Energy is the use of webcam microscope magnified living samples vast quantities of organic waste at the Central of identical bacteria found in the MFCs onto a de Abasto, the largest marketplace in Mexico, computer screen, which was contained within a to help the site become energy-sustainable with miniature theater space. Using a live footage - biogas generation and to make compost for local editing program, participants combined quotes gardens. and imagery with the scenes of bacteria, creating a digital silent film. Biodiamond Energy directs our attention to the mysterious world of our microbial allies, The results of the workshop were recorded and which form the basis of life on Earth and made available for future screenings.