See Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller’s WPA-inspired project The Work Office at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space The Work Office TWO is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the Works Progress Administration WPA of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to “make work” for visual [...]
WPA test run
Yesterday afternoon, after the rain finally stopped, I did a test run with my brother. Dressed in our WPA helmets and high-viz construction vests (thanks to Rachelle Beaudoin for sewing those WPA logos onto the vests), we staked out a destroyed section of a sidewalk with WPA-emblazoned traffic cones, rolled the wheelbarrow into place, and [...]
quotes from Flash Art
“Art should never make sense. That’s the beauty of it.” Aaron Curry, Flash Art March-April 2010, p. 89. “They say that creation is an allergic reaction to reality” -Los Carpinteros, Flash Art March-April 2010, p. 102
Red Scare Bot
‘Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it’s just the opposite’. – John Kenneth Galbraith
M.I.A. vs Arizona
NSFW: graphic violence and nudity: M.I.A.: Born Free. -via Design for the First World: The Rest saving The West, a new competition very much in tandem with the Ghana Think Tank process.
Fox Point Cape Verdean Project
Fox Point Cape Verdean Project: Whose History is It? Interpreting History, Memory and Culture From the RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Office of Public Engagement
WPA-2010 @ Eyebeam
WPA-2010 @ Eyebeam. Heart it! Thanks Dustyn Roberts!
Slave Narratives from the WPA
A collection of Slave Narratives recorded during the WPA project.
ALL TOGETHER NOW: FREE RECORDING SESSION & BBQ | Build It Green NYC
ALL TOGETHER NOW: FREE RECORDING SESSION & BBQ | Build It Green NYC Join us this Saturday, May 1st @ 5pm for… ALL TOGETHER NOW: A Salvage Recording at BUILD IT GREEN! The art group “Action Club” will record a one-song album inside of the Build it Green Warehouse using hundreds of “found” instruments. Anyone [...]
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