http://socialpractice.org/weblog urban interventions, utopian proposals, guerrilla architecture, "new genre" public art, social sculpture, project-based community practice, web-based interactivity, service dispersals, street performance, and more Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:47:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/06/30/space-square-se/ http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/04/07/how-to-talk-about-utopia-without-saying-utopia/ of momentary interest http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/ http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/02/27/everything-everyone/ The Distributed Exhibition Call for Site-Specific Artwork The Distributed Exhibition asks: What might happen when artwork is created for a particular person, family, or living situation? What if private residences became display spaces? What if the occupants became gallerists? What if the viewers became guests? Create a new site-specific artwork in a ... http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/01/09/call-for-artists-the-distributed-exhibition/ Original Source and full text found here. "The principal defect of all materialism up to now … is that the external object, reality, the sensible world, is grasped in the form of an object of an intuition; but not as a concrete human activity, as practice, in a subjective way. This ... http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/01/06/notes-on-practice-emailed-by-lydia-matthews/ encounters an interesting link that i came to sort of tangentially while researching the urban think tank. look towards the bottom for 'all real living is meeting - encounter and relation' and the discussion of the work of martin buber. http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2008/01/01/life-is-encounter/ Just when I thought it was safe to talk about free universities or free schools, having just posted about the Mountain School of Art to the SoPr blog, and through my ongoing research into the history of alternative education for the FREEB event December 10, not to mention witnessing Matthew ... http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2007/11/30/good-greif-another-free-school-art-project/ for more information on the FREEB event, click here http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2007/11/29/freeb/ Matthew, Prompted by your email I have been thinking that we need to evaluate the links between Metal music and social practice. I think metal might be the perfect musical style as it looks to give voice to the dark, taboos and mysteries of mankind. I think Dio really said it ... http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2007/11/27/for-matthew-rana-metal-or-metallike-albums/ Designers Vincent Fichard and Matthew Jones (couldn't find a website for them) created alternate road signs in Dubai last month. View the video documentation on YouTube. It took a few days to make the signs, and a week to shoot, we had over a hundred people reacting to them and ... http://socialpractice.org/weblog/2007/11/14/road-signs-posters-in-dubai/