The Art of Engagement

Upcoming Programs

Artists-in-Residence From June 2008 to June 2009 network participants and visitors will be introduced to a series of innovative artists who complicate labels and expand possibilities for engaged art practices. Curator Rajni Shah says, “Whether they work online, on a stage, in workshops, in ongoing relationships or through walks and demonstrations, these artists all have both engagement and innovation at the heart of their work.” She describes her aims: “What I really want to do is question the idea of what an ‘engaged practice’ is, and where that can go, as well as to place alongside each other practices that are located very differently. I’m also keen to spark new conversations between practitioners in different places, to encourage us to find inspiration in each other and to see how our different practices might translate helpfully onto different soils and planes of thought.”

For more on the program CLICK HERE.

You are invited to develop your own program or propose something we can work on together. Contact Caffyn to discuss or get technical help.

For scheduling purposes, the time in Vancouver now is

Network Information

The Islands Institute


and the grunt gallery

have given a little bit of money to get this site going. Opinions expressed here have nothing to do with these organizations! We need to have a bake sale soon to raise the $20 a month cost -- also hope to get some volunteers to help administer the site. Contact Caffyn if you want to help.

Vancouver Conference - Live in Public: The Art of Engagement

The Live in Public conference on Engaged Art happened October 10 through the 13th, 2007 in Vancouver. You can listen to audio from the panels, read summaries and see images CLICK HERE.

Blog Posts

An Invitation

Posted by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on July 23rd, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments (Add)

30th June 2008: The End

Posted by rajni shah on June 30th, 2008 at 3:52pm — 1 Comment (Add)

27th June: what remains

Posted by rajni shah on June 27th, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments (Add)

26th June: quick in a slow time or slow in a quick time

Posted by rajni shah on June 26th, 2008 at 7:38am — No Comments (Add)

25th June: towards destabilisation and welcome

Posted by rajni shah on June 25th, 2008 at 1:40am — No Comments (Add)

Ansel Adams on art - tragic and wonderful realities of earth and human

Posted by Phyllis Reeve on June 19th, 2008 at 9:07am — No Comments (Add)

17th June: fragments - for birthday girls

Posted by rajni shah on June 17th, 2008 at 2:49pm — 1 Comment (Add)

 

Current Programs

Culturing Sustainability: a cookbook for artists and educators

Let's explore some of the methods, motives and consequences of our practices in art and education. Caffyn Kelley has posted a text called "Culturing Sustainability: a cookbook for artists and educators" that draws on the work of many Engaged Art Network members. This text is a living document! Let's correct, add, and argue here so that we can co-create a much better text together. To participate and download the 235-page book CLICK HERE.


Artists-in-Residence
UK artist Rajni Shah tested and introduced the diverse and inquisitive artist-in-residence program she has created for the network by blogging on her own engaged art practice in June. The next scheduled Artists-in-Residence are Jean-Marie Mauclet and Gwylene Gallimard. For more on the program: CLICK HERE.

Welcome to the Art of Engagement online network!

Welcome to this online gathering on the Art of Engagement.

Please join us! This network exists as an ongoing open space for international dialogue on the Art of Engagement. It is experimental, co-created and free. Here are some of the questions that draw us together: How do we image and imagine the work of art at this moment in history, when the survival of the planet is threatened? What role can art play in transforming the current cascade of social and environmental crises? Can we develop a way to create culture, to research, learn and teach with/in ecological systems? Where does art intersect with social struggle?

Give others the chance to learn from your own efforts and projects. Share resources and stories. Ask questions. Challenge us. Ask for help. Make new friends and forge new alliances.

Here are some steps for people new to the site (everything is optional and can be done in any order!):

1. Sign in.
2.Edit your profile - add a profile photo to represent you, and tell us something about your practice, your questions and your passions.
3. Upload some photos, and/or videos and sounds.
4. Read about other participants by clicking on the "Members" tab. Leave comments for them on their comment wall.
5. Participate in discussions that are underway under the"Forums" tab. Join a Group. Start your own groups and discussions.
6. Use your Blog to keep us updated on what you are doing. Keep uploading photos and sharing projects.

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Quick-Connect Room - the place for our Real Time Tea Party



Voice Chat with others on this page:
Push and hold down the talk button - like using a walkie-talkie.


Text-chat room: simply choose a nickname, type your message and press "enter." It works most of the time. If your server times out, your message may be lost.

Groups

This network is "better than sex"

Some comments from participants:

Jan Cornall: Here there is the possibility to make deep meaningful connection with like minded artists, thinkers, writers, performers; to collaborate, share ideas, knowledge, develop projects, and to work together to actively make a difference in our street, neighbourhood, world. Here you can be recognised, appreciated and supported as an artist, and arts worker, an activist, a teacher, a thinker, by your fellow artists and arts workers. How valuable is that! How much do we need that! ...Here we can cut through the borders and boundaries that separate us, we can leapfrog the hierarchies and closed shops, the habitual patterns of our own limited thinking and limitations of our own arts communities and burst freely into a new awakened space of possibility. I tell you ....its better than sex, better than myspace almost better than art.

Beverly Naidus: For me, as facilitator [of a discussion on Teaching Art for Social Change], the greatest delight was this sense of our world as activist art practitioners, leaping across borders, time zones, and significant logistical boundaries. To be able to connect with deeply passionate colleagues in Australia, England, Qatar, Vancouver and Pittsburgh - wow, is all I can say. And if folks take a look at where the growing membership of this "engaged art" network comes from, you will be astounded. The countries represented besides those mentioned above include: South Africa, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Germany and Sweden. How exciting is that! ...

And I wanted to say that this gathering is so timely. There are so many people everywhere who feel the preciousness of this time and recognize that we must gather our energies to turn the tide. I encourage those of you with larger networks working with art for social change, to connect them with this space. We need to gather all the sparks, and develop more momentum from the margins.
 
 

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Please post Calls for Entry here

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A place to post timely news to share with this social network.

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Climate Change Challenge

I received this message from Bill McKibben and thought to put it out there as a challenge to this network. Dear Friends, For hard-boiled political organizers, we're basically nostalgic sentimenta...

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