Interruption of Hierarchies - 4/14 (Nato Thompson - Josh Greene)

Interruption of Hierarchies - The Academy and the Gallery.

Panelists:
Josh Greene
Shannon Jackson
Tina Takemoto
Nato Thompson

Moderator:
Larry Rinder

Interventionist artists are increasingly creating works which occupy sites well outside traditional art venues. Rather than the aesthetic and art historical, artistic investigation and research and has become the focus of much of the works and draw on other disciplines, particularly those within the social sciences. Greater demands are made on audiences, moving them from the contemplative to an active engagement with the world and the everyday.

But where does this leave galleries and the academy? What must they become in order to accommodate, and respond to interventionist works? As social practices become more mainstream, how are the roles of these spaces and professionals (particularly curators and critics) who work in this arena changing? Are they threatened?

From the "Intervene! Interrupt!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice" conference and festival. University of

California Santa Cruz - May 15-17, 2008

http://artinterventions.ucsc.edu/

Category:

Education

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• art
• intervention
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• UCSC
• conference
• panel
• interventionist art
• festival
• performance art
• lecture
• Josh Greene
• Shannon Jackson
• Tina Takemoto
• Nato Thompson
• larry rinder

[hermannnitsch342d]

I like Nato.