Lebenskünstler

The Art of Participation – Randall Szott – Social Practice West

Posted in Uncategorized by dilettanteventures on 01/26/2009

I’m going to be on a panel at SFMOMA (2/07/09) called Social Practice West. It’s part of the events programing for The Art of Participation which purports to survey “how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process.”

The panel will discuss the rise of  Social Practice MFA programs on the west coast. Students from those programs will give presentations from their perspective and panelists will act as respondents. I am especially eager to discuss the impact of professionalization on these practices.

I really feel sorry for the person who had to provide a legitimate sounding title for me and I can only imagine the trepidation around presenting my bio in its usual form. According to SFMOMA I’m a “writer.” Who knew?

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Child Development – Marc Briod – Phenomenology

Posted in Uncategorized by dilettanteventures on 01/18/2009

“[children develop] in an open, creative venture of living toward the future…Moreover, it would be described as a life of creative openness, not self-made, but creative in the exact degree to which it is open to the newness and freshness of experience, and to its own life as a continual return to the sedimented layers of existing, intentionalities, meanings and projects.” – Marc Briod, “A Phenomenological Approach to Child Development”

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Kaprow – Unart

Posted in Uncategorized by dilettanteventures on 01/15/2009

“This is not because I don’t like the arts, or that I’m not interested in the arts of other people. But as far as I was personally concerned, the un-arting process was primary and, therefore, I would not find useful any integration of social and cultural theory into art-making.” – Allan Kaprow

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