Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry
One of the issues with art that is inherently based on social exchange is that these practices have not really been clearly examined or theorized. There is a tendency amongst art writers and curators...
View ArticleMapping Social Practice
I’ve recently been talking to several cultural practitioners about how to educate those with a more traditional notion of art in understanding and contextualizing today’s social practice. The notion...
View ArticleRikrit Tiravanija at USC: Aesthetic Anonymity and Authorship
On March 22nd, I had the fortune of seeing the Thai contemporary artist Rikrit Tiravanija lecture at USC. I was quite excited by this chance, especially because I had frequently read about...
View ArticleRe-Casting Institutional Memory (in JOAAP Issue #8)
In the most recent issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, I consider the role of the university in the cloistering of the aesthetic avant-garde from political and social action…playing off of...
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