Art as social action An introduction to the principles and practices of teaching social practice art
Book - 2018
Art as Social Action ... is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students."--Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens Museum Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as social practice. --
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New York :
Allworth Press, an Imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781621535522
- Art as Social Action (a preface)
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory Essays
- Where Who We Are Matters: Through Art to Our More Social Selves
- Pedagogy as Art
- Lesson Plans I: Art As Social Research / Listening / Self-Care
- Transactions, Roles, and Research
- Luxury to Low-End Link: An Economic Inequity Experiment for the Age of Brand Temples
- Activating the Archive
- What Will Your Work Organize?
- The Listening Workshop: A Two-Hour Relational Encounter That Exposes the Politics of Voice and Listening
- Social Practice Studio
- Ways of Being (Support)
- SexEd + PPNYC + Parsons
- Sounding Place: Ma Space Acouscenic Listening Workshop
- Participatory Asset Mapping: A Semester-Long Engagement
- Calling in Sick
- Essay
- Toward a Social Practice Pedagogy The Pedagogy Group, New York, New York
- Lesson Plans II: Teaching and Performing Direct Action
- The Arts for Social Change: Development of a Strategic Plan for Direct Action
- Assignment: Displace an Object or Everyday Action
- Socratic Mapping
- Graphic Responses to the Northwest Detention Center: Work by Art and Global Justice Students
- Interventionist Art: Strategy and Tactics
- March of Solidarity: Cultural Workers of St. Petersburg, Russia School of Engaged Art, Rosa's House of Culture, Chto Delat/ What is to be done?,
- A Training Ground for the Future: Taking On Campus Issues with Art
- Misplaced Women?: One-Day-Long Intense Performance Art Workshop on Migration in the Public Spaces of Belgrade, Serbia, October 29, 2015
- Documents of Resistance: Artists of Color Protest (1960-Present), Collective Timelines
- Interviews
- What We Produce: Social Models That Can Be Repurposed and Reapplied, an Interview of Pablo Helguera
- Fail Better: An Interview with the Center for Artistic Activism
- Lesson Plans III: Art and Social Injustice
- Nyu Flash Collective: An Art Intervention in the Public Sphere
- Future IDs: Refraining the Narrative of Reentry
- Due Time
- Balloon Mapping the Calumet River Industrial Corridor in Chicago
- Spurse Lesson Plan: Designing a Multispecies Commons
- Contact Zones: Understanding Art in Processes of Territorial Research
- Sensing Social Space
- Becoming Zoya
- Freedom. Safety. Now!
- Essay
- Why Socially Engaged Art Can't Be Taught
- Lesson Plans IV: Collective Learning and Urban Imaginaries
- Poetry Workshop
- Ask the Tarot: From Personal Belief to Collective Reflection Alpha Elena Escobedo Vargas
- Social Practice and Community Engagement Seminar: Trust Exercises
- Experience as Art: Fine Art Social Practice at Middlesex University
- Writing the Social: A Participatory Workshop
- Up Against the Wall: Public Art, Precarity, and Witness (Occupied Palestine 2003-2011)
- Framing Neighborhood Decisions
- Lesson Plan for Public Faculty No. 11: Imagining a Curriculum for Sunset Park
- Embracing Ambiguity: Reappropriation and the Making of Public Spaces
- Social Practice Queens Alumni: Teaching Seminars and Art As Social Action Projects
- Transforming Corona Plaza/Corona Studio: A Seminar Developed by Queens Museum, Queens College Art/Social Practice Queens, and the Urban Studies Departments Professor
- Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land
- The Beacon of Pluralism
- Towards a Workers Pavilion: The Forming of the Workers Art Coalition
- Participatory Decision-Making in Diverse Groups
- Concluding Essay
- Dewey, Beuys, Cage, and the Vulnerable yet Utterly Unremarkable Heresy of Teaching Socially Engaged Art Education (Seae)
- Contributor Bios
- Index