Week 9- Art in Public Spaces
ACTIVISM AND QUESTIONS OF EFFICACY WHAT ARE OUR CHANCES TO BE AFFECTIVE / EFFECTIVE AS INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL GROUPS DEALING WITH ISSUES LIKE HOMELESSNESS, THE US PRISON SYSTEM, PROGRESSIVE UNION ACTIVITIES, AND (URBAN) POVERTY IN THE PREVAILING SURROUNDING OF CORPORATE LATE CAPITALISM?
Slide Presentation:
Krysztof Wodiczko project on homelessness, Group Material " DaZiBaos" (1982),
Hans Haacke's project "And you were victorious after all" (Und ihr habt doch gesiegt)
(1988), David Avalos "Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation" (1988),
Dennis Adams, Muntadas
Required Reading:
C. Ondine Chavoya, "Collaborative Public Art and Multimedia Installation: David Avalos, Louis Hock, and Elizabeth Sisco's Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation (1988)", in Chon A. Noriega, The Ethnic Eye Latino Media Arts (Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Suggested Reading:
The Lure of the Local (New York: The New Press, 1997)
Moore, Alan & Marc Miller, ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side
Art Gallery (New York: Collaborative Projects Publishers, 1985)
Arlene Raven, (ed.), Art in the Public Realm (New York: Da Capo Press, 1993)
Jacob, Mary Jane, Michael Brenson, and Evam Olson, Culture in Action:
A Public Art Program of Sculpture in Chicago (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)
group project:
We work on the creation of the piece I)
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