Embroidered Digital Commons Workshops with Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles :: Saturdays, March 3 - April 28, 2012 (excluding April 7); 10:00 - 12:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London. Continue reading

The International Award for Participatory Art is world-wide the first award promoting and supporting artists who involve their audiences in the process of producing works of art.

The relation between artist and audience has been at the heart of the research of artists for more than a century. Over the last decades there have been innumerous experimentations and a variety of critical approaches regarding the questions of authorship, the levels of involvement of the audience in production and  in decision processes. Often these researches take the form of temporary interventions rather than objects meant to last in time. Aiming beyond the strategies of the art market, to find funding for this kind of projects is challenging. Continue reading

After a 10 month hiatus the SoundTransit project is back, hosted by Turbulence.org.

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. An international community of phonographers collect and share their recordings, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks, to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth’s atmosphere. Continue reading

Mapping Community Arts: Subversion, Repressive Tolerance and Pastoral Power by Pascal Gielen — organized and moderated by Hakan Topal with a response by Alex Villar :: November 8, 2011; 6:30 pm :: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York, NY.

In recent years there has been increased attention to so-called ‘socially engaged art practices’. Equipped with a sense of urgency and intent, artists and curators develop work with the support of communities or groups to tackle political and social issues. While the success of these projects are not easily measurable, they often reiterate the role of artist/ curator as protagonists of specific forms of social change, which posits a direct contrast to recent activism which carefully distances itself from any leader-based political organizational categories. Continue reading

Riverscaping/Alles Am Fluss is an international and northeastern US public realm public art/design-build competition on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts :: Deadline: December 10, 2011.

The objective of this competition is to uncover new public realm art, architectural and environmental approaches to riverscapes at two scales: regional and intimate. Each designer/artist/team will produce an overall strategy for connecting and relating the four defined sites (and those between) while paying attention to the unique and individual characteristics of each community through site specific work. At its core, the competition asks three main questions of its designers/artists/teams: Continue reading

Mutualisms :: September 9 - September 25, 2011 :: Opening: September 9; 6:00 - 10:00 pm :: Symposium: September 11; 1:00 - 5:00 pm :: Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 South Morgan Street, 60608, Chicago, IL.

Mutualisms is a collaborative curatorial project organized by Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars, exploring the ways in which networks of friendship and artistic collaboration can be used as a model for curating. Mutualisms is looking into artistic strategies for finding hospitality and exchange in the context of contemporary art practices as well our own social domain.

Eight Dutch and eight American artists/artist duos were paired and worked together to create a collaborative presentation of their works. Continue reading

Time/Bank Restaurant :: September 24 - October 16, 2011, Thursdays through Sundays; 1:00 - 3:00 pm :: Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City.

Time/Bank will open a New York City branch in the form of a temporary restaurant on the Lower East Side, which will offer daily lunch in exchange for time credits and time currency that you can earn by helping others in Time/Bank community.

There will be a changing menu of meals prepared with recipes provided by a group of artists who like to cook, including Martha Rosler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Carolina Caycedo, Lawrence Weiner, Liam Gillick, WAGE, and many others. Continue reading

Connected Communities Symposium :: September 12-14, 2011; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm :: Culture Lab Newcastle, UK + Streamed live.

Culture Lab Newcastle is hosting an international interdisciplinary event open to the general public, on the topic of Connected Communities. This symposium will include talks and projects from theorists and practitioners alike, selected from a call for expressions of interest.

Many theorists have regarded communities as networks of interacting people within a defined territory, and policy-makers have tended to respond to this particular understanding. However, in an era where digital technologies have supported transnational forms of connectedness and the efficiency of grassroot movements, communities are once again looked at as innovative fertile grounds for alternative social organisation. Continue reading

threewalls’ Hand in Glove Conference ::October 20–23, 2011 :: PHONEBOOK 3 Release event: October 21; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: Geolofts, 3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL. Continue reading

[FEAST #10, February 2011. Image courtesy of FEAST.] Living as Form :: Exhibition: September 24 – October 16, 2011 :: Historic Essex Street Market, NYC :: Creative Time Summit 3: Living as Form :: September 23, 2011 :: NYU Skirball Center, 566 Laguardia Place, NYC (Tickets. Living as Form is free and open to the public.).

This fall, Creative Time will present Living as Form, an unprecedented, international exhibition exploring over twenty years of socially engaged cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. “Increasingly, we find socially engaged projects that exceed traditional categories of art by utilizing sociality, pedagogy, community outreach, architecture, publishing, and numerous other methodologies to engage the peculiar spectacle-driven thing we know as civic life. Continue reading