“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

Since moving here, I’m beginning to wonder if Los Angeles is just a microcosm – I hate that word, but there you go – of the US generally. In Los Angeles, there is a horrific gap between the rich and the poor; general public disregard for public institutions; shitty public transit; overwhelming belief in outmoded or disappeared dreams. Proposition 13 heralded a nationwide tax revolt and subsequent gutting of social services, leading in part to the evacuated and disjunct nation we have today. And if art can do anything in LA, perhaps it is a signal of what art – or anything, or anyone – might be able to do in the US generally, across all of its destroyed or depressed cities and towns.

Episode 376: Shannon Jackson/ Jen Delos Reyes

Episode 376: Shannon Jackson/ Jen Delos Reyes

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_376-Shannon_Jackson.mp3 download This week: We kick off with the most depressing intro ever (yet still hilarious) and then get to the good stuff. We talk to Shannon Jackson at the Open Engagement conference,...
A New Year’s Reading List

A New Year’s Reading List

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...