History/Theory SEA Resources

Additional (Optional) Readings/Resources:

Socially Engaged Arts Reader

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Global Conceptualism (Intro Only)

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Michael G. Birchall, Socially engaged art in the 1990s and beyond

SPECIAL INSERT: COVID-19 READINGS:

The Corona Reboot” by Ian Alan Paul

“Coronavirus Propagations” by Jonas Staal

Counter Critiques of Social Practice Art

Ben Davis in International Socialist Review

Notes about Joseph Beuys, Gregory Sholette (2018)

Art and Labor and Feminism:

M. UKELES MANIFESTO PDF Download

The labor-oriented performance art of Marty Pottinger

Interview with Marty Pottinger

Visit the Guerilla Girls website: https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

From Tom Finkelpearl:

Finkelpearl, “A Cooperative Animal”

Introduction to “What We Made,” by Tom Finkelpearl

Chapter 5 in “What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation,” interview with Rick Lowe and Mark Stern in Finkelpearl.

Tom Finkelpearl interviews Mierle Laderman Ukeles from his book Dialogues in Public Art.

SPQ’s Urbanism/Transforming Corona Plaza Project 2012:

http://www.streetfilms.org/queens-corona-plaza-a-community-place-rises/

Transforming Corona Plaza Studio Presentation

Sholette interview with T. Cruz “Urban Policy & DNA”

Article about Immigrant Movement International (IMI)

The Collective Making of ABC NO RIO, Nandini Bagchee

On Theaster Gates:

John Colapinto, “The Real-Estate Artist,” The New Yorker, Jan. 20, 2014https://www.ted.com/talks/theaster_gates_how_to_revive_a_neighborhood_with_imagination_beauty_and_art?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Nate Bert, “From Theaster Gates to Assemble: is there an art to urban regeneration?”

Gary Younge, “Theaster Gates, the artist whose latest project is regenerating Chicago.”

Sholette, “Art After Gentrification.”

On REPOhistory:

1992 REPOhistory sign project catalog

Overview of REPOhistory 1989-2000

Online documentation of REPOhistory signs (select)

Fordham Urban Law Journal about 1998 REPOhistory project

REPOhistory slide presentation with notes: click here

Additional Resources:

PPT LECTURE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE

Dark Matter Archives

General history of art collectivism timeline

The Tate’s Definition of Socially engaged art practice

Identity and Political Art as Mainstream Culture

Proletarian Fashion Dolce & Gabbana (seriously?)