social practice
Highlights
Notícias da América (News from America)
Notícias de América is a long-duration performance by Paulo Nazareth, who walked from Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the United States, documenting encounters, landscapes, and social realities while examining borders, migration, and North–South relations.
Big Sky Country, Walking Art
A few years ago, a group of Australian walking artists came together to form the appropriately named Australian Walking Artists. Going from strength to strength, they recently published a book, Australian Walking Artists, Volume 1 24/25, highlighting work by the members of their organisation. One of the group’s founders, and president, Molly Wagner, wrote an
• Walking the Dog
Keith Arnatt’s Walking the Dog (1976–79) is a black-and-white photo series of owners posed with their dogs, exploring self-representation, repetition, and social behavior. The work blends conceptual art with subtle humor, questioning photography’s claim to objectivity.
Articles elsewhere
Zines Acquired in National Collecting Institutions
Some fun news from earlier this spring: I learned that both Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis and Baylor University Book Arts Collection in Texas have acquired copies of my zine, Observational Walking and the Five Senses, via Minnesota Center for Book Arts where I have been consigning zines and books for several years. Additionally, Baylor […]
Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors, Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship Across Canada
This book is—I think—also required reading for the course I’m taking that begins tomorrow. I’ve had a copy for a while now—I got it as part of research for a paper on social aesthetics I had to write in another course a few years back—but I haven’t read it yet. Sometimes when you’re writing a … Continue reading Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors, Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship Across Canada →
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Radical Stroud
