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The Artist is Present

a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which artist Marina Abramović sat immobile in the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium, during the Museum’s 2010 retrospective of Abramović’s work, while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her. Italian photographer Marco Anelli took portraits of every person who sat opposite Abramović.

Cultural Anthropophagy

A term coined by Paulo Herkenhoff for the 1998 Sao Paulo Biennial, for cultural cannibalism — the perception that post-colonial artists were limited to appropriation of European culture, rather than creating culturally-unqiue work.

Havana Biennial

The Havana Biennial Art Exhibition takes place in Havana, Cuba every two years and principally aims at promoting the developing world in contemporary art. The biennial is considered as an important forum for underrepresented voices, and Latin American and Caribbean artists still have priority even though artists from all over the world are authorized to …

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Dak’Art

The Dakar Biennale, or Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Dakar, Senegal. Dak’Art’s focus has been on Contemporary African Art since 1996. External Links Official website

When Attitudes Become Form

Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form was a landmark 1969 exhibition curated by Harold Szeeman at the Kunsthalle Bern. Szeemann was an advocate for the new art that emerged in the 1960s, work grounded in an “inner attitude” elevating artistic process over final product and a desire to be free of a system supplying aesthetic …

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Mildred’s Lane

an artist complex begun and managed by J. Morgan Pruett, Mildred’s Lane hosts and supporting international cultural producers, organizes informal residencies, develops site sensitive projects, seminars, dinners, research think tanks and more. Pruett created, in Mildred’s Lane, a significant but invisible center for developing new forms of creative practice. Welcoming a “new age of curiosity” — activating connections that …

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Jack Smith’s Loft

the New York home and makeshift theater/film studio of performance artist, filmmaker, playwright, photographer, socialist, aesthete, installation artist, scene-stealer, writer, interventionist Jack Smith. The loft was filled with found objects, street debris and vernacular art assembled from the former.

The Factory

The Factory was the name of Andy Warhol’s New York City studio, which had three different locations between 1962 and 1984. The Factory was the hip hangout for artistic types, amphetamine (speed) users, and the Warhol superstars. It was famed for its groundbreaking parties. In the studio, Warhol’s workers would make silkscreens and lithographs under …

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Black Magic at the White House

a 2009 video piece by Jeannette Ehlers in which she, rendered nearly invisible via video manipulation, performs a vodoun dance in Marienborg which has a strong connection to the Danish slave trade. Ehlers wishes to shed light on the colonial amnesia in Denmark. The artist’s own ethnic background, with a Danish mother and a Father from Trinidad, West Indies, adds extra …

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Rebecca Belmore

Rebecca Belmore (born 1960) is an inter-disciplinary Anishinaabe-Canadian artist who is particularly notable for her performance and installation work. Belmore has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1986. Her work addresses history, voice and voicelessness, place, and identity. To address the politics of representation, Belmore’s art strives to invert or subvert official narratives, while …

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His ten books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the art collective Border …

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Portage 2007 Vancouver

An October 2007 public intervention by Terence Houle and Trevor Freeman, involving the portage of a 16 ft canoe through the crowded downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, from English Bay to Coal Harbour. Dressing up in stereotypically “traditional” Aboriginal and Métis garb, Houle and Freeman traverse the populated urban terrain of Vancouver’s metropolitan centre. Hole dressed …

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The Artifact Piece

a 1986 performance by Native American artist James Luna which challenged the way contemporary American culture and museums have presented his race as essentially extinct and vanished. In this performance piece, Luna “installed’ himself in an exhibition case in the San Diego Museum of Man in a section on the Kumeyaay Indians, who once inhabited …

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Looking for a Husband with an EU Passport

a 2000-2005 online performance piece, by Tanja Ostojic, in which she presented herself naked and with a shaven head, possibly reminiscent of a prisoner from socialist times. This led to an actual marriage to an artist from Cologne, from whom she then separated in 2005, again as an online performance. The piece explores one of …

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Antagonist Art Practice

A term, coined by Claire Bishop, for artmaking that intentionally provokes or exacerbates social tension.

Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is an art historian, critic, author, and Professor in the History of Art Department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York since September 2008. Her book, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012) is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, best known in the U.S. as ‘social …

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Socially engaged art

a field of practice which argues that there is a critical difference between an art that engages in the politics of representation and the art institutions, and an art that engages in wider political practices. The development of socially engaged art has tended to follow particular patterns: (a) it has focused on communities defined by …

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AIDS Memorial Quilt

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world as of 2010. The idea for …

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Jonestown

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was an alternative community located in northwestern Guyana. Better known as Jonestown under the leadership of “apostolic socialist” cult leader Jim Jones, it became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978, over 900 people died in the remote commune, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital …

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Drop City

Drop City was a counterculture artists’ community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 1970s, it became known as the first rural “hippie commune”. In 1965, the four original founders, Gene Bernofsky (“Curly”), JoAnn Bernofsky (“Jo”), Richard Kallweit (“Lard”) and Clark Richert (“Clard”), art students and filmmakers from the University of …

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Celebration, Florida

Celebration is a  master-planned community in Osceola County, Florida, United States, located near Walt Disney World Resort and originally developed by The Walt Disney Company. Celebration’s population was 7,427 at the 2010 census. In the early 1990s, the Disney Development Company (DDC) established the Celebration Company to spearhead its development within approximately 4,900 acres (20 …

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Museum of Jurassic Technology

a museum of questionable veracity and dubious trustworthiness located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded as an exploration of the language of fact and certainty used by the scientific community, as a ‘cabinet of curiosities writ-large’ by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988. Located adjacent to the Center for Land Use Interpretation, …

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Mirroring Evil

Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art was a 2002 exhibit at the Jewish Museum, in New York, curated by Norman L. Kleeblatt. In the exhibit, thirteen artists at least one generation removed from the Holocaust examined the Nazi gaze itself and the way the iconography of the Third Reich has been romanticized and imbedded in …

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NSK

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning “New Slovenian Art”), also known as NSK, is a political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. NSK’s name, being German, is compatible with a theme in NSK works: the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans. The name of NSK’s …

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InCUBATE

The Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday (InCUBATE) is an experimental research institute and artist residency program dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding. Acting as curators, researchers and co-producers of artist’s projects, their main focus has been to explore ways that artists, both past and present, have incorporated models …

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a non-profit organization, founded in 2003, dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse. Through a range of exhibition and public programs, including symposiums, lectures, performances and publications, Threewalls creates a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities. Threewalls publishes Phonebook, a directory of independent art spaces, programs, …

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Autonomism

Autonomism or Autonomist Marxism is a set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements and theories begun in Italy in the 1960s. It espouses an ideal of direct democracy effected by the people in the governmental decisions that impact their daily lives and calls for the independence of social movements from political parties in a revolutionary …

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Felix Guattari

Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and militant. He founded both schizo-analysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Radio Alice

An Italian free radio station, broadcasting from Bologna in the late 1970s. Rather than attempting to objectify events in the world, they set out to create a flow of sounds, information, messages and poetry, silences and abuse. Like the manifestations of Dada, transmissions were seen as immediate cultural subversions. Radio Alice’s output covered a myriad of subjects: …

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Daisy chain

A network of interconnected radio receivers and transmitters that would allow low-power or microFM radio signals to be transmitted efficiently across areas ranging from local neighborhoods to large cities. Pioneered by pirate radio artists like Tetsuo Kogawa. An explanation of Daisy chains

Fluxus

Fluxus is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They varied in performance, Neo-Dada noise music and visual art, urban planning, architecture, design, as well as literature. Fluxus has a strong current of anti-commercial and anti-art sensibility. Fluxus is sometimes described as intermedia. …

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria from 1969 until 1972. At its inception on October 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party’s core practice …

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Lucio Urtubia Jimenez

Lucio Urtubia Jiménez (born 1931 in Cascante, Navarre) is a Basque anarchist and printmaker famous for his practice of expropriative anarchism. At times compared to Robin Hood, Urtubia carried out bank robberies and forgeries throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He is most notable for the forgery of Citibank travelers’ checks in 1977. This criminal undertaking included …

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Ithaca HOUR

A local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating. One Ithaca HOUR is valued at US$10 and is generally recommended to be used as payment for one hour’s work, although the rate is negotiable. Ithaca Hour website

Black Radical Brooklyn

Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, was a walkable month-long art exhibition, in 2014, of four community-based art commissions by Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center presented. Black Radical Brooklyn launched from the site of Weeksville, a Brooklyn community …

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Zapatista villages

A collection of autonomous rural communities in the Chiapas state of southern Mexico controlled and governed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), a guerrilla movement comprised largely of farmers that sought to revolt against the high-poverty and low-social service environment of the rural Mexcian south — facts of life …

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Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and “maverick social critic” of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development. The book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention was …

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SAHMAT Collective

The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, also known as the SAHMAT Collective has given Indian artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors a platform to create and present works of art that promote artistic freedom and celebrate secular, egalitarian values. Founded in the wake of the 1989 murder of activist, playwright and actor Safdar Hashmi, over the years, SAHMAT has …

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Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca

An open educational space whose objective is to contribute to the quest for knowledge through practical application, founded by Gustavo Esteva. Inside UniTierra’s small operational space one finds a library, communication center with computers, radio and video equipment, and a demonstration area for eco-techniques and small urban garden. At the center activities include: workshops, intercultural dialogues, …

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Rhizome

A not-for-profit arts organization, founded by artist and curator Mark Tribe, that supports and provides a platform for new media art. Begun by Tribe as a small email list in 1996 while living in Berlin, the list included a number of people Tribe had met at Ars Electronica. Originally designated a business, Rhizome became a nonprofit organization in …

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Nettime

Nettime is an internet mailing list proposed in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz (then half-jokingly called “the nettime brothers” at the second meeting of the “Medien Zentral Kommittee” during the Venice Biennale. Since 1998, Ted Byfield and Felix Stalder have moderated the main list, coordinated moderation of other lists in the nettime “family,” …

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Ways of Seeing

a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger. Berger’s scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series, …

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Faith Wilding

Aló Presidente

Aló Presidente (“Hello Mr. President”) was a largely unscripted talk show that was hosted by then Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. It was broadcast on Venezuelan state television and radio stations every Sunday at 11:00 AM. The program did not have a fixed ending time, but usually ended by 5:00 PM, or as the program dynamics …

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Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. He is best known for his influential work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement. Pedagogy of the Oppressed proposes a …

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Don’t cross the bridge before you get to the river

A 2008 performance by Francis Alÿs of two human chains of children stretching from Europe to Africa and from Africa to Europe, across the Strait of Gibraltar, releasing a flotilla of sandals-turned-sailboats. The Gibraltar project reflected Alÿs’ wish to fall back upon poetics, and marked a return to the way children’s fantasies relate to contemporary history. Whereas an actual attempt …

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Bridge/Puente

A 2006 performance by Francis Alÿs, attempting to create a temporary bridge between Cuba and Florida, using Cuban and American fishing boats. Bridge/Puente on Francis Alÿs’ site

Green Line, The

Green Line (2007) is the documentation of a performance by Francis Alÿs in which he walks in Jerusalem along on the Green Line, the border set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors, while carrying a leaking can of green paint. As he walks along, the …

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Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller’s work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004, and in …

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Nazca Lines

a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 500 BCE and 500 CE. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, …

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Richard Serra

an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. In 1981, Serra installed Tilted Arc, a gently curved, 3.5 meter high arc of rusting mild steel in the Federal Plaza in New York City. There was controversy over the installation …

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Vendome Column

The Vendôme Column was started in 1806 at Napoleon’s direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan’s Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its veneer of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda. A statue of Napoleon, bare-headed, crowned with …

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Alexander Calder

an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. Calder’s monumental stationary sculptures are called stabiles.

Flamingo

is a 53-foot (16 m) tall, 50 ton stabile, by Alexander Calder, located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974. It is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color, to offset it …

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Pablo Picasso

a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

Chicago Picasso

an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop, is 50 feet (15.2 m) tall and weighs 147 tons. The Cubist sculpture by Picasso was the first such major public artwork in Downtown Chicago, and has become a well known landmark. …

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Jean Dubuffet

a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection …

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Monument with Standing Beast

A sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center to the southeast. It is a 29-foot (8.8 m), 10 ton (9,100 kg) white …

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Frederick Hart

a twentieth-century American sculptor whose work recalls the figurative tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A convert to Catholicism, Hart’s work often conveys sensuousness joined with religiosity. In his later career, he created female nudes from cast acrylic resin in a process that he patented. Hart was the sculptor of the statue “Three Servicemen” (also …

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Wanda Nanibush

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinabe-kwe curator, writer, consultant, and artist from Beausoleil First Nation concentrated on re-contextualizing Indigenous time-based media and performance art.

Not an Alternative

Not An Alternative is a Brooklyn-based arts collective and non-profit organization, founded by Beka Economopoulos, with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, institutions, and history. Through engaged critical research and design, the group curates and produces interventions on material and immaterial space, bringing together tools from art, architecture, exhibition design, and political …

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Maria Galindo

María Galindo is a founding member of the twenty-year old Bolivian feminist movement Mujeres Creando (“Women Creating”). She is the author of their thesis on “Despatriarcalizacion,” which is a neologism to describe the dismantling of patriarchy.

Futurefarmers

Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers working together since its founding by Amy Franceschini in 1995. They are artists, researchers, designers, farmers, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems. Their design studio serves as a …

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Barbie Liberation Organization

a project fostered by ®™ark, the BLO is a group of artists and activists involved in culture jamming. The project came to attention in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO performed “surgery” on hundreds of dolls and then returned them to the shelves of stores, an action they refer to …

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Nowhereisland

an artificially-created island, micronation and an artwork by Alex Hartley and is produced by Bristol-based arts organization Situations. The island was towed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest …

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Touch Sanitation

In 1977, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles began interviewing New York City sanitation workers, and in 1979, she began Touch Sanitation Performance. This multivalent work included Handshake and Thanking Ritual, in which the artist shook hands and personally thanked each of the city’s 8,500 sanitation workers over an eleven-month period. Follow in Your Footsteps was another …

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Gotham Handbook

a 2004 collaboration between artist Sophie Calle and author Paul Auster which derives from a set of instructions that Auster gave Calle when approached to invent a character she might resemble. His innocuous directives include beautifying a little spot in the city, such as a street corner, a subway entrance or a tree in the park, …

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One Flew Over the Void

(Bala perdida) is both a film and performance organized by Javier Téllez in Las Playas, Mexico, on the border of Tijuana and San Diego. The 2005 event featured ordinary citizens, visitors to InSITE (the periodic exhibition for which the work was produced), and patients from a local psychiatric hospital (the last disguised behind animal masks and …

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Carpark

a site-specific art installation by Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson and Mark Tribe, where thousands of cars were parked, by color, for half a day, at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California for inSite ’94, a binational art exhibition. On August 31, 1994, from 6am to noon, a team of 50 professional and volunteer parking attendants directed …

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Spiral Jetty

an earthwork sculpture constructed on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, in April 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Built of entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks and water Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise …

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Cátedra Arte de Conducta

(Behavior Art Department – 2002-2009), a work by Tania Bruguera emerged like a piece of public art intended to create a space of alternative training to the system of art studies in contemporary Cuban society. It is a Long Term Intervention focused in the discussion and analysis of sociopolitical behavior and the understanding of art …

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Womanhouse

(January 30 – February 28, 1972) was a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Feminist Art Program. Chicago, Schapiro, their students and women artists from the local community participated. Chicago and Schapiro encouraged their students to use consciousness-raising techniques …

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Watts Towers

a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural structures in the Watts community of Los Angeles, California, also known as Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo (“our town”). The tallest of the towers reaches a height of over 99 feet (30 m). The towers and walls were designed and built by Sabato (“Simon”) Rodia (1879-1965), an …

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Eternal Frame, The

a 1975 video piece documenting the reenactment of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza in a collaboration between two San Francisco-based artist collectives: T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm . The artists taking on the roles of Kennedy, Jackie, and others rehearsed extensively to ensure verisimilitude, and when they performed the reenactment, it was …

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CowParade

an international public-private partnership and public art exhibit that has been featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over the city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks. They often feature artwork and designs specific to local culture, as well as …

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Battle of Orgreave, The

the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners’ strike. In 2001, conceptual artist Jeremy Deller originated and set in motion the idea of a re-enactment of the event as an arts project, commissioned by British arts …

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Percent for Art

refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where some percentage of the project cost of large scale development projects is set aside in order to fund and install public art. The details of such programs vary from area-to-area. Similar programs, such as “art in public places”, attempt to achieve similar goals by requiring that public …

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