Community-based art, performance and dialogue
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Article about performance as methodology in Derrida´s, Artaud´s, Renato Cohe´n and Zizek´s theoric point of view.
Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces, international meeting/conference and exhibition on walking arts, in collaboration between Lab2PT / UMinho - Made of Walking (VII) and the City of Guimarães - Portugal. Below you can read the announcement... more
Originally published in: The International Journal of Arts in Society, Volume 6, No. 2, pp. 111-20, available online at: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.757 The phenomenon of large-scale public art projects has gone... more
This article proposes the term ‘site-situational’ art or performance as a meaningful shift beyond ‘site-specificity’ and as a way to develop forward-moving and relational understandings of place. While place falls prey to Western,... more
This report contains a thorough formal, and contextual analysis of an early series of performances by San Francisco-based conceptual artist Bonnie Ora Sherk (b. 1945). It investigates the series titled "Sitting Still I-III" (1970), which... more
The aim of this essay is to explore the emergence and implications of political graffiti during/after the Iranian revolution 1979 and the beginning of Iran-Iraq war, the cultural and psycho-social implications and the controversy... more
Today, Forum Theater has become mainstream practice in Singapore. But from 1994 to 2004, the government tried to ban it. This article explores the political and economic dimensions of the birth, death, and re-birth of Forum Theater,... more
This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially-engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy. The main exponents of this position are Claire Bishop and Chantal Mouffe, and while there are important... more
Co-Edited with Dorothee Richter. The curatorial project “social sculptures” took place in four different parts over one and a half years, the curatorial concept evolved through time as more participants became involved. An archive of... more
This essay engages collaborative art projects in a field of settler/indigenous relations: drumming and performances of self at a Michigan language revitalization symposium, Native Women Language Keepers; Anishinaabe artist Rebecca... more
The internationally known phenomena of Slovak conceptual art is not only the case of Július Koller, Alex Mlynárčik and Stano Filko. As I show in my study it could be seen as the compact movement between 1963-1993, closely attached to the... more
This MA thesis combines philosophy and communication studies in a double investigation of, first, how to justify 'dialogic democracy' (which is a redevelopment of deliberative and participatory branches in democracy theory) as a viable... more
An essay in the companion book to the exhibition EN MAS: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Farewell, Farewell: Carnival, Performance and Exhibition in the Circum-Atlantic Economy of the Flesh, bids farewell to traditional... more
Depuis les années 1960, le mouvement communautaire québécois a œuvré pour la justice et les droits des personnes parmi les plus vulnérables de la société. Il a contribué de façon décisive à la reconnaissance et à l’interReconnaissance de... more
We are currently seeking proposals for a stream called "From Socially Engaged Art to Socially Engaged Humanities?: Art, Research, and Social Engagement" at the 2022 London Conference in Critical Thought at Birkbeck College, University of... more
"This publication is the first manual for the inter-religious dialogue in the youth work. In the youth-friendly way it presents the theoretical basis for this dialogue, good examples, sample scenarios, lists what's important to remember... more
Community-based theatre has been a key element of the peace building strategies deployed in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Local, national and international political institutions and NGOs have supported an... more
Essay about the Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata's social intervention project in the Amazon.
This is a series of collages that intend to evoke the implicating concepts of interculturality: respect, sense of community/ sense of belonging, identity, prudence. These visuals are means of communication of a broader dialogue between... more
This chapter relates to the demographic changes in contemporary Japanese society and examines how discussions concerning age and generational issues occur in the Japanese contemporary art world. The paper includes analyses of two art... more
La mostra I Malus. Una storia della mela a cura degli artisti Caretto|Spagna nasce dal desiderio di mettere in relazione la realtà contadina e artigianale, la conoscenza ed esperienza degli appassionati pomologi e dei produttori locali... more
21. yüzyılda Avrupa ülkelerindeki, Amerika’daki ve Türkiye’deki bienallerde, sergilerde ve sokaklarda sıkça örneklerine rastlanan katılımcı ve ilişkisel sanat örnekleri, sanatın geleneksel özelliklerini kullanmaz. Katılımcı ve ilişkisel... more
Esta propuesta, orientada a explorar lo social como aquello caracterizado por su conflictividad y no por su consensualidad, parte de la obra Them (2007) del artista polaco Artur Zmijewski, que reunió cuatro grupos representativos de la... more
Figure 2224 was a site-related performance that was produced for IdentityLab and gallery DEPO in Istanbul 20 May 2016, an essay about is to read in the book "Between Places". Between Places is an anthology compiling reflections about how... more
This is a concertina booklet published on the occasion of The Great Goat Milking and Honey Rendering at the Royal Ontario Museum and MKG127, Toronto. The events took place in 2015 and 2016. The artist thanks The Graham family and the... more
This paper outlines the author's process of creative collaboration with the Dumagat indigenous peoples community in Dingalan, Aurora and the Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space (AARPS) Collective, in making and presenting the "Adow... more
Research as Art Practice: Dialogic and In-disciplinary approach in ROCKFLUID
In Northern Ireland, as elsewhere, there are tensions between the aesthetics of professional and applied theatre. Specifically, it is harsh but not inaccurate to say that many Irish practitioners and policy makers believe that a lot of... more
This study reports on the activities of the improvisation-based project TWIG 'Together We Integrate Growth', which developed as a community initiative to facilitate ecological awareness through creative activities. It analyses the TWIG... more
The title of the current special issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism is taken from the eponymous “Reflection Cycle” organized in October and November 2018 at the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art... more