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Relations and Situations: Susan Sakash, 2008-2009 VISTA in the Office, developed a listing of relational
and situational art practices that we've posted as a resource. Over the year, we will be adding to the list. Let us know
of great community-based, relational art or situational art and design programs you encounter!
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Dressing Up Work: The Apron Diaries: For over three years Pam Hall collected used aprons as the "material"
for her current large scale installation project. Intended to investigate and honor "women's work", both domestic and industrial.
In Newfoundland, aprons have been installed to explore the work of women in the fishery, both past and present, to mark female
labour "in the garden", and various other forms of "housework". In 2007, the work of women at Auntie Crae's- a 30 year old
bakery and specialty food shop, formed the basis for the first indoor iteration of the project. It includes portraits of workers,
"data-mapping" to make visible their labor through story and statistics, as well as transient installations in the work site
itself. Documentation and "interpretative" works arising from the process are intended to be installed in the workplace- with
workers themselves as first audience to their own participation in the project.
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spurse is an open-ended group of individuals and organizations that work together as a type of experimental
consultation service towards the development of new forms of engagement, practices and knowledges.
We believe that there is a necessity today of working collectively to rethink all of the givens of our modes of being in the
world so to develop new forms of practices and knowledges. We are creatures who are not alone -- and we, as creatures, are
a type of collective -- a complex entanglement of many other creatures (bacteria, fungi, protocistae etc.), systems, habits,
matters of concern and forces at varying scales. This world, is a world that we are not simply “in” but we are,
rather, an intra-actively co-emerging part of this dynamic world. It is a world of irreducible messiness, complexity and open-ended
multiplicity.
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The Evolutionary Girls Club is an international group of artists, scholars and activists who deal with issues around voice, access
and privilege though the making and exhibiting of art, (be it visual, written, or any other form). The group has done art
exhibitions and workshops in Ukraine, Germany, the United States, Sweden, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Finland,
Malaysia, Singapore, China, Guyana... We publish a book once a year. Anyone who is interested in art and activism can join.
You don't need to be a girl by identity or genetics. We only exclude exclusive behavior/actions.
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Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue
Schaffner. Starting in 1991, DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art projects.
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Mashapaug Pond Restoration Project: A community artist and a South Providence neighborhood will help raise awareness about a health hazard
in the community while designing a series of informational signs through a partnership between three state agencies. Warwick,
Rhode Island-based artist Holly Ewald has been commissioned by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to create a series
of informational signs warning residents of the South Providence neighborhood near Mashapaug Pond off Adelaide Ave.
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Justseeds
Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together
to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements.
Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture.
Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in
the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.
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The Muster: May 14th 2005, Governor's
IslandA public art event in which artist Allison Smith invoked the aesthetic
vernacular of the American Civil War battle reenactment as a stage set for a polyphonic marshaling of voices in her artistic
and intellectual communities. More...
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RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific
intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty
tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968.
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Edible Estates (dot) org
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Fundred Project on Art:21
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The Public School
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Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
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Knitting Nation
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Sunday Soup Grants
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Beehive Design Collective
The Beehive’s mission: To
cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing
tools.
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National Bitter Melon Council
The National Bitter Melon Council
(NBMC) is devoted to the cultivation of a vibrant, diverse community through the promotion and distribution of Bitter Melon.
Our projects, events, and festivals celebrate the health, social, culinary, and creative possibilities of this underappreciated
vegetable. Advocating the acceptance of Bitter Melon across cultures and cuisines, we believe that Bitter Melon creates an
alternative basis for community – that of bitterness!
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