by Gene Tanta | May 22, 2013 | Blog
Are immigrants better at putting deconstruction to work? As an immigrant myself, I think I understand Jacques Derrida because he was also an immigrant. The immigrant experience—mine, to be sure—is one of becoming decentered and of finding one self in a foreign...
by Paul Germanos | May 20, 2013 | Blog
This week, independent of one another, Chicago-based writers Caroline Picard and Jason Foumberg both raised questions related to sustainability in the art world. Within the context of Bad at Sports, Picard wondered about communal failure, ethics, and Utopia,...
by Christopher Hudgens | May 20, 2013 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_403-Reymar_Gacutan.mp3 download This week: Amanda and Richard talk to inbound apexart resident Reymar Gacutan as a part of our ongoing partnership. Reymar Gacutan (b. 1972) is an artist and educator based in...
by Caroline Picard | May 19, 2013 | Blog
Thus far at Open Engagement, I’ve heard no discussion around the terminology of social practice, or specifically what to call “social practice.” The conference at large seems  presently unbothered by the nomenclature of its  discipline. It’s...
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...
