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Come find me at #openengagement2012 and ask for one of my new Scout Books printed by the always awesome @printpinball http://openengagement.info #oe2012 (Taken with instagram)
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Open Engagement starts tomorrow! http://openengagement.info (Taken with Instagram at Art Building (PSU))
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We need more minds like these, please. Thank you, Mr. Rushkoff.
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You’re invited to Open Engagement!
The Open Engagement: Art & Social Practice conference is happening this weekend, May 18-20th
it’s free and open to the public!
Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. Through conversations, presentations, workshops, interviews, open reflections, and related projects created for or presented at the conference, we will be investigating, questioning, celebrating, and challenging the current state of art and social practice.
Learn more about our programming, keynote speakers, download the catalogue, see the full schedule online, register for the conference and even sign-up to present during an “Open Session” at http://openengagement.info
Open Engagement needs volunteers!
There are lots of ways to get involved this year, whether you can give us an hour of your time or 3 full days! It’s an amazing opportunity to meet and connect with artists from all over the country and world, and it’s great for your resume. You can learn more about Open Engagement at our website,http://openengagement.infoWe need your help:
With documentation!Documentarians can help us by taking video and still photography during various conference events. Great experience for your CV! We need a core crew of volunteers to document main events, sessions, workshops, panels and generally all that is going on including our off site locations and events.At the registration table!These friendly faces anchor the “home base” of the conference, the registration table. The registration table/info point is the heart of our conference operations. It will also be the center of the most up-to-date conference information, and general point of contact. (generally it works best if volunteers can commit to a three-hour shift at the registration table)During the final diner on Sunday night!We need volunteers to help us set up/clean up for the final dinner on Sunday night at Yale Union (YU). -
Looking forward to this lecture tonight!
PSU ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE MFA LECTURE SERIES
Mary Jane Jacob will present a lecture about her work!The public is invited (it’s free, tell your friends)
Monday May 14th, 7:30 pm Sharp!
Shattuck Hall Annex at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campusIn her curatorial practice MARY JANE JACOB seeks to advance the parameters of artists’ public practices and examine assumptions about the audience for contemporary art. She was artistic director for such public programs as “Places with a Past” (Charleston 1991), “Culture in Action,” (Chicago 1993), “Conversations at The Castle” (Atlanta 1996). Since 2001 she annually produces deeply situated projects for the Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston. With the bookBuddha Mind in Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2004), she furthered her research into the nature of the art experience; her new anthology is Learning Mind: Experience Into Art. Ms. Jacob is Professor of Sculpture and Executive Director of Exhibitions at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the 2010 College Art Association conference, she was awarded the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award and the Award for Achievement in the Field of Public Art from Public Art Dialogue.__________________________________________________________________If you or someone you know is interested in sponsoring the lecture series please let us know.The lecture series is supported in part by Erika and Dave Cianciulli, The Platt Family, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Bear Deluxe, and Makelike.Next up in the PASPMLS:May 21 Coco Fusco
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Work in progress… (Taken with instagram)
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I was recently invited to participate in poetry class project at Reed College in which a couple students wrote poems in response to work on my website and then I was to make a new work in response to their poems. This is one of the pieces I made, which ended up being a hand lettered reworking of selected words in their poem that resonated with me in the rearrangement I produced. Fun times. (Taken with instagram)
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Urban Edibles Lecture tonight - Free!
PSU ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE MFA LECTURE SERIES
Urban Edibles will present a lecture about their work!The public is invited (it’s free, tell your friends)
Monday May 7th, 7:30 pm Sharp!
Shattuck Hall Annex at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campusUrban Edibles is a non-profit based out of Portland, Oregon. The organization provides resources for those interested in wild edible, medicinal and otherwise notable plants. They occasionally host events, workshops, and presentations as well as publish small-print “field zines.” Much of their presence, however, is online.
Some nice foliage may make Portland, Oregon a “green” city, but amongst the leaves is a surprising amount of edible food sources. On one side of town there may be a public street lined with fruit trees whose bounty gets swept in to a dumpster year after year, while on the other side some kids may be anxious to make some plum jam. Urban Edibles aims to make more available the natural food sources throughout the city that go undiscovered each year. Nut trees, berry patches, unsprayed fields of dandelion roots are all welcome. They invite you to share the sources you already know of, search for new ones with your friends, and participate in our official scouting days.__________________________________________________________________If you or someone you know is interested in sponsoring the lecture series please let us know.The lecture series is supported in part by Erika and Dave Cianciulli, The Platt Family, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Bear Deluxe, and Makelike.Next up in the PASPMLS: -
Writing workshop with Julie Ault - PSU MFA Art and Social Practice (Taken with Instagram at Mule Deer Cabin)
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"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."-
The quote above is by Krishnamurti. I was amazed by how reading just a few simple lines could so simply summarize how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been thinking about almost my whole life. I have a feeling I’m going to be digging into a lot more writing from him after I finish with school. There’s some really great footage of Krishnamurti on the YouTubes, one of which is below.
