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Activism and Social Movements

Aesthetics, Art History and Cultural Insitutions

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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Portage 2007 Vancouver

An October 2007 public intervention by Terence Houle and Trevor Freeman, involving the portage of a 16 ft canoe through the crowded downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, from English Bay to Coal Harbour. Dressing up in stereotypically “traditional” Aboriginal and Métis garb, Houle and Freeman traverse the populated urban terrain of Vancouver’s metropolitan centre. Hole dressed …

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Dorchester Projects

Artist Theaster Gates renovated previously abandoned buildings on Chicago’s South Side to be repurposed as Library, Slide Archive and Soul Food Kitchen in 2009. Theaster Gates has since become one of the most important artists associated with socially engaged art.

Abigail Satinsky

Abigail Satinsky is a writer, grassroots organizer, and curator of socially-engaged art. She was a co-founder of InCUBATE and Threewalls and author of the book Support Networks.

Embodied Knowledges

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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Art is…

Performance during Harlem’s African-American Day Parade, September 1983, by Lorraine O’Grady where 15 young actors and dancers use framed viewers with an empty gold picture frame. “Frame me, make me art!”

Nadin Ospina

Nadín Ospina is an award-winning Colombian artist with significant international exposure. His awards include First Prize, 34th Salon of Colombian Artists (1992) and First Prize, 18th Salon of Fire, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (2004). From 1979 to 1982, he held the position of Professor of Fine Arts, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. In 1992 …

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The Weather Project

Situated in the Tate Modern in 2003, The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson transforms Turbine Hall into a representation of the sun and sky. The sun consists of monofrequency lights that alter the perception of color within the installation. Mist generated by haze machines creates a fog that pervades the participants and the space. Participants …

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Experimental Pedagogy