Social Practice

The semester is drawing to a close, and the first group of students who entered into the Social Practices program are now graduating! Congratulations of course are in order to Jen Durban, Carly troncale, Bridget Barnhart, Amanda Herman and Anne Devine. Watch for future posts detailing a PDF book that was produced to give an overview of the work they made while in the program.
There has been a lot of interest and excitement about the incoming group for fall of 2007. Not only will it be the first group to fully step into the new curriculum and the workshop, but it is the largest group we have admitted (7 people). I will be posting images, links and project descriptions for the various people over the next few posts, starting with links to pre-existing websites.

Welcome to Forrest Lewinger, Lynne Mccabe, Anthony Marcellini, Boris Chesakov, Matthew Rana, Ella Watson and Piero Passacantando.

Links to websites and project information:

Ella Watson: Ella Watson videos
Matthew Rana: matthewrana.net, Guerre Atelier Website

Anthony Marcellini : portfolio download
Also It Can Change Website

In the fall of 2006 the Banff Center for the Arts hosted a residency called “The Future of Idea Art.”  One outcome of this gathering was a “Relational Aesthetics Song” (produced on their wiki, naturally).  Here’s a little snippet of a verse:

“
Oh there won’t be any evidence that anything happened when we’re done
Or maybe there will, like someone could leave
A crumpled up kleenex or something like that on the floor for when we’re gone”

Of course, if you don’t like the lyrics– you can always re-write them.