Applied Aesthetic Index

Machine Project Hammer Museum Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report released

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:58:00 +0000

In 2010/2011 Machine Project produced a year of programming which proposed new, alternative, and experimental ways of presenting work at the Hammer Museum. Projects included a vacation for houseplants, a two minute performance series underneath the stairs, an overnight dream-in and a ton of other stuff documented and discussed in this here report

Machine Project Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report (9.6 Mb PDF)

A year later, what seems most interesting about this project is not just what the public experienced, but everything that took place behind the scenes – the conversations with artists, the challenges inside and outside of the museum, the logistic and philosophical issues involved in attempting to suggest other uses for a major cultural institution. The report includes introductory essays by Machine Director Mark Allen and Hammer Director of Public Engagement Allison Agsten, a roadmap for how the projects were produced (in case you want to try this at your own museum) and extensive interviews with both the artists and museum staff.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to see how the public engagement sausage gets made.

The Pop-Up Museum

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:56:12 +0000

The Pop-Up Museum: // (n.) An exhibition about the past and future of 1) the *Gowanus Canal* and 2) the *museum*. Opens March 3 at Observatory (observatoryroom.org). // (v.) An experiment in site-specific space activation, constructing potential futures using primary documents. // What can the Gowanus become? How are we becoming-Gowanus? // And what would a museum about this process look like? For eight weeks, we’re going to explore these and other questions.

UndocuQueer

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:03:44 +0000

“I am UndocuQueer!” is an art project in conjunction with the Undocumented Queer Youth Collective and the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (QUIP) that aims to give us undocumented queers more of a presence in the discussion of migrant rights.

Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:01 +0000

Mella Jaarsma, photo documenting performance of I Eat You Eat Me, 2002.

Since the 1930s, numerous artists have used the simple act of sharing food and drink to advance aesthetic goals and to foster critical engagement with the culture of their moment. These artist-orchestrated meals can offer a radical form of hospitality that punctures everyday experience, using the meal as a means to shift perceptions and spark encounters that aren’t always possible in a fast-moving and segmented society.

Feast surveys this practice for the first time, presenting the work of more than thirty artists and artist groups who have transformed the shared meal into a compelling artistic medium. The exhibition examines the history of the artist-orchestrated meal, assessing its roots in early-twentieth century European avant-garde art, its development over the past decades within Western art, and its current global ubiquity. Through a presentation within the Smart Museum and new commissions in public spaces, the exhibition will introduce new artists and contextualize their work in relation to other influential artists, from the Italian Futurists and Gordon Matta-Clark to Marina Abramović and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Feast addresses the radical hospitality embodied by these artists and the social, commercial, and political structures that surround the experience of eating together.
February 16 – June 10, 2012 at the SMART Museum

Art & Research

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:35:46 +0000

Art & Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed open access e-journal of Research in Fine Art Practice, focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context.

Market Makeovers

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:27:56 +0000

Market Makeovers is a dynamic, user-friendly online toolkit about the process of transforming small corner stores to carry healthier food choices. Features the work of the South L.A. Healthy Eating Active Community Initiative (HEAC), local high school students, and Public Matters, using the conversions of three corner stores in South L.A. as case studies.

Soundscrapers

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:16:10 +0000

Soundscrapers is a collection of soundwalks, and ruminations on design, and architecture written by Nick Sowers, who is practicing the construction of space with sound and 2x4s in the SF Bay area.

Sensate

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:23:26 +0000

Sensate is an online, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our aim is to build on the current groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice to provide a forum for scholarly and artistic experiments not conducive to the printed page.

radio ark transmission

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:10:16 +0000

Radio ark transmission is an internet based sound art platform; oral history and community archive of musical and non-musical sound. (Rob Peterson and Lindsey Reynolds)

Shared Space Studio

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:04:58 +0000

Shared Space Studio is located at 4391 W Monroe Road in Pentwater, Michigan: Next to The Trading post, just off the Monroe Road exit on US 31.

The space houses arts & crafts studios, and offers one large multipurpose room to the community- available for classes, meetings, exhibitions, performances, and other gatherings. Our current schedule includes ongoing art classes for adults and kids, open figure drawing night, drop-in-and-craft night, and special events and workshops.

Visiting artists are invited to live as the Artist-in-Residence, during which time they make new work inspired by the environment and fostered by the facility, while engaging the local community and offering fresh ideas.