The Commons: Space, Place & Public
Links to Artists and Projects
- The Laundromat Project | Mapping Soulville
- The Laundromat Project | Projects Page
- Faheem Majeed | http://www.faheemmajeed.com/#!projects/ck0q
- 96 Acres is a series of community-engaged, site-responsive art projects that address the impact of the Cook County Jail on Chicago’s West Side. They aim to generate alternative narratives reflecting on power, and to present creative projects that reflect the community’s vision of transformation.
- Theatrum Mundi | http://theatrum-mundi.org/activities/960/
- Matthew Mazzotta | http://matthewmazzotta.com/home.html
- Center for Urban Pedagogy | http://welcometocup.org/
- Basurama: Lima Autoparque de Atracciones | (in english: http://basurama.org/en/projects/rus-lima-autoparque-de-atracciones/ )
- Minerva Cuevas | http://www.irational.org/minerva/resume.html
- Project Row Houses
- Thomas Hirschhorn: Gramsci Monument | Art 21
- David Hammons
- Immigrant Movement International | Tania Bruguera
- El Art Cart | Edgar Reyes
Links to Lectures, Discussions and Interviews
- Teddy Cruz: How Architectural Innovations Migrate Across Borders
- Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Theaster Gates in Conversation with Philip Bither at Walker Art Center
- Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art | TED Talk
- Faheem Majeed on his exhibition at MCA Chicago / failure, catalysts for change | http://www2.mcachicago.org/exhibition/chicago-works-faheem-majeed/
Links to Publications and Texts
- Art and Social Practice – Selection of Texts
- FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Criticism
- Alternate ROOTS Arts and Activism Tools – including Principles of Community Engagement, Resources for Social Change, Building Arts and Community Partners work kit, and more
- Living Classroom and Open Field: An Interview with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
- Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson | on Google Books
- How Do People Feel About the Gramsci Monument, One Year Later? by Whitney Kimball for Art F City | Article includes discussions and interviews with people connected with Thomas Hirschorn’s Gramsci Monument, a temporary public art project in the Bronx’s Forest Houses. Worth reading the comments as well for extensive commentary from a teaching artist involved with the project.