We are lining up a few Art, Community and Environment workshop events in spring quarter, the first of which is Tuesday April 7th, 5-7pm in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2351), where we'll be hosting Daniel Tucker's talk "A Reflection on the Eco Social Salon, Site Seeing and Screening Series."
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by April 2nd via email to <gregruffing@u.northwestern.edu>.
ECO SOCIAL SALON, SITE SEEING AND SCREENING SERIES is an event series and learning community that has convened irregularly in Philadelphia since 2023. The series focus is on presenting ecologically-themed artwork and taking collaborative excursions throughout the region. The project was developed in response to an increased interest in infrastructural and bioregional practices that can visualize and embody the territorial scale of both problems and solutions related to the climate crisis.
DANIEL TUCKER makes documentaries, publications, classes, exhibitions and events. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics and his collaborative art projects have been published and presented widely. His latest co-authored book “Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic” (Soberscove, 2022) was picked as a “Best Art Book of 2022” by Hyperallergic. He has led graduate programs in museum studies and socially-engaged art for the last decade and is the Research Network Chair of the international Arts in Society Research Network. He is currently a fellow with the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania and the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. He recently developed the Curating Engagement Retreat with support of Wagner Foundation and Public Trust, and since 2023 he has organized the ongoing Eco Social Salon, Site Seeing and Screening Series in Philadelphia.
ART, COMMUNITY, AND ENVIRONMENT is a Kaplan Research Workshop Co-convened by Rebecca Zorach, Department of Art History, and Hollyamber Kennedy, Department of Art History. Greg Ruffing is the Graduate Student Assistant. This research workshop brings together faculty and graduate students interested in the intersections among art and architectural practice, environmental studies, and communities. We seek to broaden definitions of knowledge production beyond the academic to include Indigenous and oppositional knowledge, collaborative practice, reparative design, and activist research. We hope to learn from both historical studies and from current, “front-line” experiences, asking how they create democratic and non-hierarchical knowledge communities, and what potential for social, artistic, and environmental efficacy they possess.
Cost: FREE
Greg Ruffing
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