Finkelpearl What We Made

Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9551-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

What We Made presents a series of fifteen conversations in which contemporary artists who create activist, participatory work discuss the cooperative process. Colleagues from fields including architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media join the conversations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkelpearl, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1. Introduction

The Art of Social Cooperation: An American Framework 1

2. Cooperation Goes Public

Consequences of a Gesture and 100 Victoria/10,000 Tears 51

Interview: Daniel Joseph Martinez, artist, and Gregg M. Horowitz, philosophy professor

Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group 76

Follow-Up Interview: Naomi Beckwith, participant

3. Museum, Education, Cooperation

Memory of Surfaces 90

Interview: Ernesto Pujol, artist, and David Henry, museum educator

4. Overview

Temporary Coaltions, Mobilized Communities, and Dialogue as Art 114

Interview: Grant Kester, art historian

5. Social Vision and a Cooperative Community

Project Row Houses 132

Interview: Rick Lowe, artist, and Mark Stern, professor of social history and urban studies

6. Participation, Planning, and a Cooperative Film

Blot Out the Sun 152

Interview: Harrell Fletcher, artist, and Ethan Seltzer, professor of urban studies and planning

Ride Out the Sun 174

Follow-up Interview: Jay Dykeman, collaborator

7. Education Art

Catedra Arte del Conducta 179

Interview: Tania Bruguera, artist

Catedra de Conducta

Follow-up Interview: Claire Bishop, art historian

8. A Political Alphabet 219

Interview: Wendy Ewald, artist, and Sondra Farganis, political scientist

9. Crossing Borders

Transnational Community-Based Production, Cooperative Art, and Informal Trade Networks 240

Interview: Pedro Lasch, artist, and Teddy Cruz, architect

10. Spirituality and Cooperation

Unburning Freedom Hall and The Packer School Project 269

Interview: Brett Cook, artist, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist

The Seer Project 301

Interview: Lee Mingwei, artist

11. Interactive Internet Communication

White Glove Tracking 313

Interview: Evan Roth, artist

White Glove Tracking 335

Follow-up Interview: Jonah Peretti, contagious media pioneer

Conclusion: Pragmatism and Social Cooperation 343

Notes 363

Bibliography 373

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Finkelpearl is Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art. He is the author of Dialogues in Public Art.