[-empyre-] All Call: May discussion Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory art

[Ana Valdés]

Maybe my experience in Palestine should be interesting to share. It was
both Art and activism linking together the suffering of the Occupation with
the need of emotional and psychological growing. "Our minds are occupied",
said one of my Palestinian friends.
Ana
Den 25 apr 2016 16:24 skrev "Renate Ferro" <renateferro at gmail.com>:

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> Dear -empyre list servers,
>
> Sorry to interrupt the April discussion but our guest moderator for May,
> Kyle Lane-McKinley is looking for weekly guests for his upcoming topic,
> Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory
> art.  If there are any artists, curators, technologists, or theoreticians
> who are interested in joining in please contact me as soon as possible.
>
> Here is a snippet of what is ahead:
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> "“Social Practice” has emerged as a useful, if contested, term to describe
> a variety of contemporary art practices which situate the audience as the
> medium or site of creativity. Pulling on tendencies within installation and
> performance art, anthropology, and anti-hierarchical political movements,
> among others, social practice sits alongside threads of new media
> production as inheritors of 20th century avant-garde experimentalism. At
> the same time, social practice has met with various criticisms: as a fad,
> a-political, utopian, white, erasing past efforts, and more.
>
>
> In this month’s discussion we aim to interrogate what is meant by “social
> practice,” what the political efficacy of such practices might be, and what
> the responsibilities of various actors and institutions involved might be
> to one another.”
>
> Thanks to all  Renate
>
> Renate Ferro
>
> Visiting Associate Professor
>
> College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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> Department of Art
>
> Tjaden Hall 306
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