"Outsiders/insiders, the center/the margin, institutions/communities-all of those terms are examined, contested, and frequently abandoned by six community-based public art projects carried out after year-long residencies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Ann Carlson, Group Material, Michelle Illuminato, Daniel J. Martinez and Fred Wilson. No apologies for the "artist as activist" here. Selected essays by Mary Jane Jacob, David Levi Strauss ..."
"PHONEBOOK 3 is a directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects throughout the United States and a collection of critical essays and practical information written by the people who run them. PHONEBOOK 3 includes artist-run spaces, public programming, unconventional residencies, alternative schools, and community resources; all of the projects that form and support art ecologies across the nation, as well as historical do ..."
""Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when--driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual a ..."
""Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when -- driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual ..."
"Situation -- a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations -- has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key ..."
"The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone s ..."
"In 1989, the members of Group Material--Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Karen Ramspacher--were invited by the Matrix Gallery to address the subject of AIDS. The artists assembled their research into this timeline of the epidemic's emergence as a national crisis."