5 Questions About Art In Chicago http://5questions.areachicago.org Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en 5 Questions About Socially Engaged Art in Chicago http://5questions.areachicago.org/2008/11/18/hello-world/ http://5questions.areachicago.org/2008/11/18/hello-world/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:58:51 +0000 admin http://5questions.areachicago.org/?p=1
  • Q1: Who is your audience and how does your work mobilize them toward strategic local concerns?
  • Q2: Given that the ways we make money impacts the type of culture we produce, how does the local economy effect your art practice? How do you work to obtain and share resources?
  • Q3: Describe a local cultural event that productively expanded the social networks that your practice operates in? That is to say, the event produced a new sense of community that had political potential.
  • Q4: As a politically engaged artist or organization how does your practice relate to existing social movements?
  • Q5: These conversations come out of a nation-wide concern about the fate of democracy. How do you see your projects tying into a larger national structure? Is organizing nationally productive? What are its limitations?

    • Featuring Interviews with:

    Mike Bancroft (Co-op Image), Wafaa Bilal, Sara Black (Material Exchange), Brett Bloom (Temporary Services), Aquil Charlton (Crib Collective), Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia), Marianne Fairbanks (Mess Hall), Edra Soto Fernandez, Nicole Garneau, Theaster Gates, Amanda Gutierrez, Craig Harshaw (Insight Arts), David Isaacson (Theater Oobleck), Jennifer Karmin (Anti Gravity Surprise), Nance Klehm, Edmar and Rachael Marszewski (Lumpen), Mark Messing (Mucca Pazza), Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sonjanita Moore (Kuumba Lynx), Laurie Palmer, Amy Partridge (CAFF Collective), Mary Patten (Feel Tank Chicago), Coya Paz (Teatro Luna), Dan Peterman (Experimental Station), Jon Pounds (Chicago Public Art Group), Aay Preston-Myint (Chances Dances), Toufic El Rassi, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa (Polvo), Deborah Stratman, Shannon Stratton (threewalls), Brad Thomson, travis (American Veterans for Equal Rights), Dan S. Wang, Rebecca Zorach (Feel Tank Chicago), and more.

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