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Live Blogging Discussions of Community Engagement, Environmentalism, and Social Practice

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Weber, Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day two of the Common Field Convening.

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An Artist on How the Met Is Reaching Beyond the Museum with a New Civic Engagement Residency

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 29, 2018June 29, 2018

In June, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it was launching an initiative to support partnerships for artists who have a social practice focus. We reached out to one of the artists, Miguel Luciano, to find out what this initiative means to him and his work.

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Mel Chin’s Tongue-in-Cheek Encyclopedia of the World

by Ryan Wong May 31, 2018June 1, 2018

He stares down the evils that have driven history, intervenes in public spaces, and collaborates with science — all in service to strengthening community

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On the Alaskan Coast, a Crowd of Human Casts Captures Our Emotional Trauma

by Claire Voon December 9, 2015December 10, 2015

Sixty-eight life-sized sculptures of humans — some peering towards the sky, some shrouded with downcast eyes — currently stand along the snow-covered coastline of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Artist Mel Chin Proposes a Solar Currency for the Sahara

by Matthew Irwin October 26, 2015October 31, 2015

ALBUQUERQUE — Mel Chin’s “The Potential Project,” represented by an installation at 516 Arts, embodies the teetering ambiguities of “first world” philanthropy.

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A Mobile Stoop that Builds Community

by Claire Voon September 9, 2015September 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC — This week, artist Margo Elsayd will push a wooden stoop on wheels around Washington, DC, inviting passersby to sit on it and share stories of all sorts with anyone willing to lend an ear.

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A Social Practice Cooking Experience in the Homes of NYC Immigrants

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 21, 2015July 21, 2015

Artist Lisa Gross, who founded the League of Kitchens, acknowledges that each of its workshops starts off a bit awkwardly, as six participants enter an unfamiliar neighborhood and step into a stranger’s home.

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Why I Don’t Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Mosque Pavilion

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 22, 2015May 27, 2015

I’ve been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel’s project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning.

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Reflections on a Weekend Devoted to Socially Engaged Art

by Gretchen Coombs April 29, 2015

BRISBANE, Australia — On the flight between Pittsburgh and Detroit, I felt art’s potential: Open Engagement 2015’s socially engaged projects had responded to the national discourse on social and racial justice.

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Picturing the People Inside Ebola Hazmat Suits

by Laura C. Mallonee April 16, 2015April 16, 2015

Late last summer, when the Ebola epidemic started spinning out of control, Mary Beth Heffernan couldn’t get her mind off it.

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Making Political Art with Bones and Stars

by Laura C. Mallonee March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

Earlier this month, Albuquerque-based social practice artists Naomi Natale and Susan McAllister, founders of the Art of Revolution, were among six others to receive the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s inaugural Artist as Activist fellowship.

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Between Theory and Action in Social Practice Art

by Chloë Bass November 19, 2014November 20, 2014

That social practice is difficult to define is not a new problem. However, what I experienced was not so much a confusion of terms but a confusion of time: a series of talks that demonstrated the divide produced by the slowness of theory pitted against an active practice.

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