I met Ethan when we were artist mentors together at Southern Exposure in 2015. Since then I have watched his practice grow into the world in a way that I find really exciting and that I really relate to. So I asked him if he would let us explore his practice a… Continue reading
Many of the most complex and exciting elements of contemporary photographic practices are invisible to audiences. They consist of relationships, compassion, patience, and listening. They consist of really challenging oneself, as the artist, to give up conventions within the art-making process that subtly reinforce oppressive social dynamics. We have an… Continue reading
This looks like an interesting course on photographic distribution, audience and engagement. From the course website: In recent decades, critical analyses of photography are increasingly concerned with questions of audience engagement and technological production. This course embarks upon a study of historical and theoretical perspectives on photography—from experiments in daguerreotype… Continue reading
Kip Fulbeck‘s project about Asian American cultural identity using text and portraits. Also a book! Continue reading
Julie Keefe’s Hello, Neighbor project. What happens to neighborhoods when your neighbors aren’t your neighbors any more? When interviewed about his rapidly changing North Portland community, my neighbor, Charles, said he didn’t mind the streets being safer, the businesses returning, or the houses being fixed up. What he did mind… Continue reading
COLLAGE COLLAGE An Assignment by Eliza Gregory and Grace Leary Two-dimensional work changes its meaning and looks different when you install it on a wall. All of a sudden you are thinking about the physical context of the work, the way in which the work is presented, the framing and… Continue reading
Jen Delos Reyes teaches a fantastic course in the history of social practice. Anyone looking for texts that delve into process, collaboration, social engagement, and socially engaged art at large will find great ideas here. _________ Alberro, A. (1999). Reconsidering Conceptual Art, 1966-1977. In A. Alberro & B. Stimson (Eds.), Conceptual Art:… Continue reading
I was just looking over an assignment for Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern’s upcoming Photographer’s Playbook (which you can pre-order from Aperture or Amazon) and thinking about social practice projects that involve assigning a group of people a task, and then pulling all those assignments together into a book. Another… Continue reading
For readings related to social practice, and what it means and how it functions. Lacy has an amazing diagram about audience. The ideas they talk about can be extrapolated to include projects that use images, though they themselves are not discussing images. Suzanne Lacy’s Mapping the Terrain Tom Finkelpearl’s What We… Continue reading