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Knots
By Gregory Sholette –1- A tangle of questions from A Blade of Grass sends us deep into the weeds: “Is Socially Engaged Art Inherently Progressive?” Most socially engaged art professes to better...
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Aesthetics of Doing: Is Socially Engaged Art Always Progressive?
Maureen Connor, Artist and Professor, Social Practice Queens (SPQ) Joshua Decter, Curator and Author of Art is a Problem Marc James Léger, Artist and Author of The Neoliberal Undead Moderated by...
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The Urgency of the Unseen
By Laura Raicovich “Now it is a matter of seizing and admiring a new art, which…opens up to the artist unsuspected possibilities…in the very spectacle of things ignored and silenced.”[1] In her series...
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Aesthetics of Doing: Sleeping with the Enemy
A conversation featuring artists who work in cooperation or collaboration with companies or institutions whose values don’t necessarily match their own, with artist Steve Kurtz, 2014 ABOG Fellow Jan...
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On the Relationship between Theory and Practice in Socially Engaged Art
By Grant Kester Recent debates around socially engaged art have focused on the spatial and temporal nature of social change (the relationship, for example, between an ephemeral event and the more...
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Utopias and Identities
By Luis Camnitzer Before starting, I should clarify some meanings. Utopia for me is a process guided by an ideal and therefore something that helps to exercise quality control and identify...
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Ashley Sparks
As an ABOG Fellow Ashley Sparks will create Good Old Boys, a portable participatory performance for white southern male audiences in rural Virginia. Incorporating remote control cars, music, and...
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Daresha Kyi
As an A Blade of Grass Fellow, filmmaker Daresha Kyi will collaborate with a community of self-identified “mama bears,” conservative, Christian mothers who accept and affirm their LGBTQ+ children,...
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