by Christopher Hudgens | May 4, 2015 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_-_Bad_at_Sports_Episode_505_Pablo_Helguera_and_Christian_Viveros-Faune2.mp3 download This week in conjunction with EXPO Chicago we welcome Pablo Helguera and Chistian Viveros-Faune! We chat Socially Engaged Art. It...
by Jacob Wick | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
We were late and I was sweating. I had botched my own plan to arrive: my plan was to meet a friend at his house nearby, then walk together to Bikini Wax from there. I never told my friend that we would meet him at his house, however, and when we arrived there he was...
by Guest | Jul 6, 2013 | Blog
by Jen Delos Reyes Two countries. Five conferences. Seven years. 14 partnerships. Over 700 presenters. Over 1600 attendees. Since the ï¬rst Open Engagement conference in 2007 this event has become a key meeting point for people interested in socially engaged art....
by Caroline Picard | May 18, 2013 | Blog
I keep trying to trace emergent themes at Open Engagement. Our organizers have done a good job of marking three umbrella categories, under which each panel, presentation or discussion resides. These headings, Publics, Contexts, and Institutions, feel like hubs through...
by Bryce Dwyer | Jan 2, 2012 | Blog
Some of the best known theorists of social practice published or toiled away at new books in 2011. Although I haven’t read them yet, I’d bet that this fresh wave of ink will churn the debate within this always contentious art sphere all the way through...