Open Engagement 2011 – Portland, Oregon

Dudes, Last weekend I went to Open Engagement in Portland Oregon USA. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally …

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Being Pedestrian

Since Guy Debord and the situationists in the 1960′s, walking has been seen as a political act against urbanism or capitalism or as a more abstract poetic intervention into the rules and structure of the city environment. Drawing together some walks by artists in the recent (and not so recent) past; Performance Space’s 2011 series …

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Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home

Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home 1. Find the longest way to leave 2. Announce your dramatic departure to be sure there’s no turning back. 3. Sell everything you’ve spent the last ten years collecting on eBay so that you can afford ultra-light, warm, waterproof hiking equipment that you will only use this once. 4. …

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Rate of Exchange

Field Theory was dreamed up by a group of artists with varying interests and practices. It is fair to say that all of us are interested in different ways in which to engage people in experiences of meaning. If that sounds a bit vague it is because the actual parameters of the work that we …

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Threshold

Three things have happened in the last month that I think will forward the discussion around Live Art in the country and region… The first is Visible City, I won’t go into it as I was intimately involved in the project and it really is for others to speak or write about in more depth …

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