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Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts: Call for Applications

Working as an artist in the context of society not only requires special artistic talents and specific interests, but also high social and communicative abilities, endurance, and the desire and ability to reflect and form theories. More announcements

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Berlin University of the Arts Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts: Call for Applications

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) presents Visiting Artists Program Spring 2010 26

Parsons The New School for Design The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons presents The Storyteller

School of Visual Arts School of Visual Arts 2010 Arts Abroad Programs: Call for Applications 25

Monash University Art as Research: A PhD for Artists in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University

The University of the Arts in Philadelphia The University of the Arts in Philadelphia presents "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968" 22

The University of the Arts, Philadelphia The University of the Arts in Philadelphia: Call for Applications

Audain Gallery SFU Woodward's Coming Soon at Audain Gallery 21

Camac Centre d'art marnay art centre Tenot Fondation Bursary for artists: Call for application Papers

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LIFE:ART - Experiences Of Being Public

Ed Carroll



Introduction



I often wonder what happens while trying to (re)visit and (re)present cultural practice and production embedded in society. Time moves on and the significance or value of an event, happening or manifestation shifts. I have worked primarily as a co-producer in such practices and I know how difficult it is to put language and expression to these experiences. This difficulty and its accompanying attempt to generate meaning partly explains why I developed the ‘Life:Art’ project (www. bienale.lt/lifeart) which was launched during Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE 09 (www.biennial.lt).



In this article I will deal solely with three separate Irish projects that were initiated by artists Seamus McGuinness, Ailbhe Murphy and Glenn Loughran and involved working with many others, myself included, in distinctive contexts. The first section of this article will document each of the selected art practices, which have a civil orientation. The second section will introduce an idea of civil society as a space to experience being public with its potential for participation and reasonable discourse. This section will also draw upon the writing of Emmanuel Lévinas whose work questions the priority given to ‘thought’ and ‘thinking’ over and above our dealings with our fellow human beings, in order to open-up ideas about how to ‘value’ and ‘read’ cultural practices that produce an experience of being public.



Production is a verb usefully employed to describe these cultural practices below, though it is a term that contains an interesting paradox. It can value the mechanics of... Read more

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More papersLIFE:ART - Experiences Of Being Public

Ed Carroll



Making the Invisible Visible: A City in Multiples and the Art of Multiplicity

Steven L. Bridges



NO PLACE TO SIT (a walk around the new context)

Federica Bueti



“What You See is What You See”: Constructing the Subject-Object

Aaron Davis



Radical Educational Policy: Critical democratic pedagogy and the reinfusion of the arts in secondary schools

Mary Drinkwater



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A brief history of I Giardini: Or a brief history of the Venice Biennale seen from the Giardini

Vittoria Martini



The Space Between Roberto Rossellini’s Post-War Films (Rome, Open City, and Paisà) 
and the Art of Renato Guttuso

Stephanie Cotela Tanner



Kinky In Progress: Conversations With Switch Theatre

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The 1913 Armory Show: Much Ado About Everything

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