The Arts Engage! Symposium and Training Intensive will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia from June 14 to June 20, 2010 inclusive.

Speaker

http://www.artsengage.com/

Date: March 25-28, 2010
Venue: International School Manila, Philippines

Presenter

http://www.earcos.org/etc2010/

In  J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the character Holden Caulfield observed “(p)eople never notice anything.”

People Never Notice Anything is a participatory writing project and presentation series based on the observations of audience members. You are invited to take a free note book and pencil in which you can write down your observations, thoughts and points of interest. You are then encouraged to come back to apexart in February of 2010 to give a five to ten minute casual public presentation about the contents recorded in your notebook.

The observations of artists and writers are for the large part deemed of great value, and ultimately made public through their work. The J.D Salinger quote is used here as a point of departure and a provocation. People are prompted to challenge this statement crafted by a writer and see their considerations of the world they partake in as equally significant, and share their findings in a venue usually reserved for artists. People do notice things.

If you would like to participate please contact:
info@apexart.org

For Parties Prenantes: Info Point I worked with Jonathan Quesne to create a display and presentation about his favorite book, Les Trois Mousquetaires.

Parties Prenantes: Info Point is an exhibition of informational displays that have been created to represent the interests and knowledge of people who are in the ZAC Paris Rive Gauche. These displays are made collaboratively with people from the neighborhood and associates of Portland State University MFA Art and Social Practice Concentration. Similar to the format of a science fair or a conference poster session, displays are produced that communicate the research, interests, and positions of the involved parties.

Art and Social Practice starts and ends not in rarified spaces, but out in the world, although there are intersections with studios/galleries when necessary or appropriate. This way of working is not restricted to any medium, but instead uses various forms, methods, and approaches as the situation dictates. Sometimes Art Social Practice might look more like sociology, anthropology, social work, journalism, or environmentalism than art, yet it retains the intention of creating significance and appreciation between the audience and artists.

A billboard project organized for Nuit Blanche by Paul Butler, the exhibition took place in dozens of 4 x 6 ft advertising poster-frames throughout downtown Toronto for one night only in October, 2009

Invited artists were instructed to email someone of their choosing and ask them to describe in detail, a single work of art that most moved or inspired them. I corresponded with my friend Laine Gabel.

These emails were then be reproduced as serigraph prints in a mono edition and and exhibited in and outside 24 hr. convenience stores.

A project by ASDF that I contributed to.

48 pages (24 loose sheets), black and white, 50 lb bright white newsprint

This was commissioned by the Art Libraries Society of New York for the Contemporary Artists Books Conference at Printed Matter’s 2009 NY Art Book Fair. It was organized through David Senior at the Museum of Modern Art Library.

Contributions by:
Paul Branca, Dexter Sinister, Barbara Ess, Fillip, Rob Giampietro, Marc Handelman, Zach Houston, Adam Katz and Julia Sherman, Brian Kennon/ 2nd Cannons Publications, Chosil Kil, Alex Klein, Marisa Olson, Paul Pieroni, Laurel Ptak, Eileen Quinlan, Michael Smoler, Jamie Stewart, Oraib Toukan, Lia Trinka-Browner, Jen Delos Reyes, Rafael Rozendaal, Ryan Waller, Amy Yao

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