by Christopher Hudgens | Sep 2, 2013 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_418-Amy_Spiers.mp3 download This week: The second installment in our Open Engagement 2013 series! Caroline Picard talks to Amy Spiers. Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist and writer interested in...
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 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...
by Caroline Picard | May 18, 2013 | Blog
There is a reason they made a show about this town; it’s so true it’s a cliché : Portland is a kind of paradise. From the Tiki bar at the airport to the food truck shanty town we hit at midnight where twenty-thirty somethings fulfilled all college cuisine...
