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Cooperative Art

Tom Finklepearl’s firm beliefs on collaboration are very applicable to everyday life. We have already established that art can occur anywhere and is not a permanent definition. There are aspects of art in different places such as streets, business, and schools. His work on the combination of arts and culture with big municipal projects are very …

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Art Complements Business

Although different in many ways, art and business are almost synonymous. Whether you are the owner of a restaurant, social media content creator, or an artist like 2 Chainz or Beyonce, business is art and art is business because it is selling the artist’s craft. Granted there are many differentiating terms such as “customers” to …

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How do you become an artist?

The structure shown above is called the “Watts Tower” located in Los Angeles. This humongous structure was constructed by an individual named Simon Rodia. As mentioned in the video lecture, Simon was an “untrained artist” and he had to fight with the state over displaying his creation in public. While listening to his story I came …

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MoRE. Museum of refused and unrealised art projects

MoRE is a digital museum that collects, preserves and exhibits on-line refused and unrealised art projects of the XX and XXI century. Originated from an idea of Elisabetta Modena and Marco Scotti, the museum collects and exhibits projects that have been conceived on purpose for specific occasions, in determined contexts, even though not necessarily commissioned, …

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Carlos Castro

Colombian artist Carlos Castro is a chronicler of his time. In his pieces, he recontextualizes formally and symbolically found objects and images of his environment, some of them highly charged socially and politically, to create new narratives that bring to light the ones that have been socially suppressed over time or ignored in history. Castro …

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We Are = Movement

Beginning in 2012, We are = Movement creates pop-up events and establish what they term “embodied public spaces” where body literacy remains the focus. By collectively engaging with their bodies, participants find importance in corporeal knowledge. One project in particular, titled Heartbeat Soundscapes, involves amplifying stethoscopes to fill a public space with the sound of …

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Donald Judd

Donald Judd revolutionized practices and attitudes surrounding art making and the exhibition of art, primarily advocating for the permanent installation of works by artists in carefully selected environments. Judd achieved this goal for his own work and that of his colleagues at both his studio and residence at 101 Spring Street in New York and …

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz for many years has dealt with the issue of “the countless”. She says: “I feel overwhelmed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such quantity. A crowd of people or birds, insect or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of a certain prototype, a riddle of nature abhorrent …

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Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive …

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Lee Mingwei

Whether it is a one-on-one dining experience, or an installation dedicated to individuals mending clothes, Mingwei presents works that challenge the antiseptic museum paradigm. By placing these everyday actions within the museum settings, Mingwei wants people to ask questions about how such works fit within the allotted space. The participatory art brings individuals together to …

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“El Escandalo de lo real”

“El Escandalo de lo real” (2007) Susana Delahante In this work Susana had a photograph taken of herself being inpregnated via a speculum with the semen of a recently deceased man. as explained in “Conducta” or behavior, better known as performance art. This performative artwork was concerning itself with engaging reality and ethics in a …

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Matthieu Laurette

French artist Matthieu Laurette’s social interventions occur through engaging with notions of the spectacle. In his works (particularly the ongoing Apparitions), Laurette creates a public persona that is presented on various broadcasted shows ranging from newscasts to game shows. Most evident in his interventions are the inspirations to Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. In …

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Mark Dion

In creating sculptures and installations, artist Mark Dion attempts to gain knowledge through “things.” He outlines museums as a “window into the past.” This emphasis on the history of ideas stands strong in his works which explore how knowledge about the natural world transitioned over time. Through his art, he seeks to deconstruct various institutions …

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Johanna Billing

Swedish conceptual artist Johanna Billing discusses her collaborative efforts in stating, “When I invite people to perform within these complexes, which they often no longer have any practical connection to, they join me in trying to figure out the meaning or function of the institution — both historically and in the context of making the …

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Wochenklausur

Started in 1993, Wochenklausur is a Vienna-based artist collective that specializes in the orchestration of social interventions. The group actively utilizes participatory art to instigate improvements within communities. The creation of their works begins with a partnership with an art institution. In outlining their working practices, they write, “Through its work, WochenKlausur would like to …

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Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV)

From 1960 through 1968, a group of eleven opto-kinetic artists formed a collective in Paris. While the initial focus of the GRAV artists stemmed from experimenting with visual perception, the group’s works expanded to examine notions of spectator participation. The active involvement of the public became evident with art produced by Horacio Garcia Rossi, Julio …

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The Heidelberg Project

In building Detroit’s Heidelberg project, Tyree Guyton acts as an individual intervening in public space. Beginning as a series of painted houses on Heidelberg Street, the Project has since expanded to take up much of Detroit’s McDougall-Hall neighborhood. Houses covered in vibrant polka dots, bundles of stuffed animals clinging to siding, and whimsical found object …

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Picasso Baby

Performance Art by rapper Jay Z. Performed on on July 10, 2013, at the Pace Gallery in New York City. The work was inspired by the work of Marina Abramović and later caused controversy when Abramović expressed feeling used by the artist. directed by Mark Romanek https://vimeo.com/80930630

Commercial Spectacle & Public Art

Why I can’t take any commentary on Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance serious…on either side. Pedro Lasch states early in the first lecture that “public art has always been a great way to understand entire societies. It’s through our definition of the public that we define the relations between the visible, the invisible, the national and …

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Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing)

One day in 1997, Francis Alys began traversing Mexico City with a large block of ice. Over a span of nine hours, Alys proceeded to push, and eventually kick, the ice block over the city’s roads and stairs. The subtitle of “Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing” and Alys’ metaphor-ridden physical performance alludes to the …

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Otolith Group

The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) are a London-based collaborative working in film, sound, visual, and archival media. They produce research projects, texts, installations, and films, focussing on a wide range of topics from the fraught geology of California, to the adaptive slum architectures of Bombay, India; frequently engaging with broader themes: the …

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Mildred’s Lane

an artist complex begun and managed by J. Morgan Pruett, Mildred’s Lane hosts and supporting international cultural producers, organizes informal residencies, develops site sensitive projects, seminars, dinners, research think tanks and more. Pruett created, in Mildred’s Lane, a significant but invisible center for developing new forms of creative practice. Welcoming a “new age of curiosity” — activating connections that …

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Jack Smith’s Loft

the New York home and makeshift theater/film studio of performance artist, filmmaker, playwright, photographer, socialist, aesthete, installation artist, scene-stealer, writer, interventionist Jack Smith. The loft was filled with found objects, street debris and vernacular art assembled from the former.

The Factory

The Factory was the name of Andy Warhol’s New York City studio, which had three different locations between 1962 and 1984. The Factory was the hip hangout for artistic types, amphetamine (speed) users, and the Warhol superstars. It was famed for its groundbreaking parties. In the studio, Warhol’s workers would make silkscreens and lithographs under …

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Rebecca Belmore

Rebecca Belmore (born 1960) is an inter-disciplinary Anishinaabe-Canadian artist who is particularly notable for her performance and installation work. Belmore has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1986. Her work addresses history, voice and voicelessness, place, and identity. To address the politics of representation, Belmore’s art strives to invert or subvert official narratives, while …

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His ten books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the art collective Border …

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Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is an art historian, critic, author, and Professor in the History of Art Department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York since September 2008. Her book, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012) is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, best known in the U.S. as ‘social …

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Jonestown

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was an alternative community located in northwestern Guyana. Better known as Jonestown under the leadership of “apostolic socialist” cult leader Jim Jones, it became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978, over 900 people died in the remote commune, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital …

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Drop City

Drop City was a counterculture artists’ community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 1970s, it became known as the first rural “hippie commune”. In 1965, the four original founders, Gene Bernofsky (“Curly”), JoAnn Bernofsky (“Jo”), Richard Kallweit (“Lard”) and Clark Richert (“Clard”), art students and filmmakers from the University of …

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Museum of Jurassic Technology

a museum of questionable veracity and dubious trustworthiness located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded as an exploration of the language of fact and certainty used by the scientific community, as a ‘cabinet of curiosities writ-large’ by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988. Located adjacent to the Center for Land Use Interpretation, …

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NSK

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning “New Slovenian Art”), also known as NSK, is a political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. NSK’s name, being German, is compatible with a theme in NSK works: the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans. The name of NSK’s …

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InCUBATE

The Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday (InCUBATE) is an experimental research institute and artist residency program dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding. Acting as curators, researchers and co-producers of artist’s projects, their main focus has been to explore ways that artists, both past and present, have incorporated models …

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a non-profit organization, founded in 2003, dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse. Through a range of exhibition and public programs, including symposiums, lectures, performances and publications, Threewalls creates a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities. Threewalls publishes Phonebook, a directory of independent art spaces, programs, …

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Felix Guattari

Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and militant. He founded both schizo-analysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Radio Alice

An Italian free radio station, broadcasting from Bologna in the late 1970s. Rather than attempting to objectify events in the world, they set out to create a flow of sounds, information, messages and poetry, silences and abuse. Like the manifestations of Dada, transmissions were seen as immediate cultural subversions. Radio Alice’s output covered a myriad of subjects: …

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Fluxus

Fluxus is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They varied in performance, Neo-Dada noise music and visual art, urban planning, architecture, design, as well as literature. Fluxus has a strong current of anti-commercial and anti-art sensibility. Fluxus is sometimes described as intermedia. …

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria from 1969 until 1972. At its inception on October 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party’s core practice …

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Lucio Urtubia Jimenez

Lucio Urtubia Jiménez (born 1931 in Cascante, Navarre) is a Basque anarchist and printmaker famous for his practice of expropriative anarchism. At times compared to Robin Hood, Urtubia carried out bank robberies and forgeries throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He is most notable for the forgery of Citibank travelers’ checks in 1977. This criminal undertaking included …

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Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and “maverick social critic” of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development. The book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention was …

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SAHMAT Collective

The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, also known as the SAHMAT Collective has given Indian artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors a platform to create and present works of art that promote artistic freedom and celebrate secular, egalitarian values. Founded in the wake of the 1989 murder of activist, playwright and actor Safdar Hashmi, over the years, SAHMAT has …

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Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca

An open educational space whose objective is to contribute to the quest for knowledge through practical application, founded by Gustavo Esteva. Inside UniTierra’s small operational space one finds a library, communication center with computers, radio and video equipment, and a demonstration area for eco-techniques and small urban garden. At the center activities include: workshops, intercultural dialogues, …

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Rhizome

A not-for-profit arts organization, founded by artist and curator Mark Tribe, that supports and provides a platform for new media art. Begun by Tribe as a small email list in 1996 while living in Berlin, the list included a number of people Tribe had met at Ars Electronica. Originally designated a business, Rhizome became a nonprofit organization in …

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Nettime

Nettime is an internet mailing list proposed in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz (then half-jokingly called “the nettime brothers” at the second meeting of the “Medien Zentral Kommittee” during the Venice Biennale. Since 1998, Ted Byfield and Felix Stalder have moderated the main list, coordinated moderation of other lists in the nettime “family,” …

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Faith Wilding

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller’s work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004, and in …

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Richard Serra

an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. In 1981, Serra installed Tilted Arc, a gently curved, 3.5 meter high arc of rusting mild steel in the Federal Plaza in New York City. There was controversy over the installation …

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Alexander Calder

an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. Calder’s monumental stationary sculptures are called stabiles.

Pablo Picasso

a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

Jean Dubuffet

a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection …

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Frederick Hart

a twentieth-century American sculptor whose work recalls the figurative tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A convert to Catholicism, Hart’s work often conveys sensuousness joined with religiosity. In his later career, he created female nudes from cast acrylic resin in a process that he patented. Hart was the sculptor of the statue “Three Servicemen” (also …

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Wanda Nanibush

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinabe-kwe curator, writer, consultant, and artist from Beausoleil First Nation concentrated on re-contextualizing Indigenous time-based media and performance art.

Maria Galindo

María Galindo is a founding member of the twenty-year old Bolivian feminist movement Mujeres Creando (“Women Creating”). She is the author of their thesis on “Despatriarcalizacion,” which is a neologism to describe the dismantling of patriarchy.

Futurefarmers

Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers working together since its founding by Amy Franceschini in 1995. They are artists, researchers, designers, farmers, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems. Their design studio serves as a …

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Nicolas Bourriaud

Curator, art critic, and scholar. Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (1998/English version 2002) and Postproduction (2001). Relational Aesthetics in particular has come to be seen as a defining text for a wide variety of art produced by a generation who came to prominence in Europe in the early …

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Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson (born 1954) was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. He describes himself as of “African, Native American, European and Amerindian” descent. Wilson received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1999) …

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Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles is a Mexican photographer, videographer and performance artist. Margolles was born in Culiacán in 1963. Margolles’ independent art practice has continued to explore themes of death and violence in society, specifically using forensic material and human remains.

Guy Debord

Guy Louis Debord (December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Nancy Holt

Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art and land art. In 1974, she collaborated with fellow artist Richard Serra on Boomerang, in which he videotaped her listening to her own voice echoing back into a pair of headphones after a time …

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Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work. His practice defies media-based description combining traditional object making, public and private performances, …

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Pedro Lasch

Pedro Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. He divides his time between North Carolina, where he teaches art, art theory, and visual studies at Duke University since 2002, and New York (NY), where he leads on-going projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as 16 Beaver Group since 1999. His solo exhibitions and …

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Lygia Pape

Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) is an influential Brazilian artist, active in both the Concrete and Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Later on in the 1960s and 1970s, Pape produced more videos and installations using sarcastic and critical metaphors against the Brazilian dictatorship. From the 1980s onward, these …

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Yves Klein

Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen …

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