Where? [electronic resource].

A Blade of Grass 2018

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We anchor this inaugural issue of our magazine in the question “Where,” lifting up the tendency of socially engaged art (SEA) to inhabit everyday places, not just those meant for art. While “place” is a more evocative word, it is already laden with expectations of meaning. “Where” is more open — it may begin in mystery, or in so palpable a sense of the everyday as to be almost invisible; it only reveals itself when one experiences something there with the partners or participants with whom an artist has shaped it. “Where” is at the heart of SEA. The first three contributions, by or about A Blade of Grass Fellows, explore the choice of “where” for socially engaged artists. For the past two decades, Rick Lowe’s art has usually been attached to a geographic context where “people live their lives.” He situates himself as a social sculptor at places where people can come together to think about the growth and development of their communities “beyond just surviving.”…
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Jan Cohen-Cruz
Roberto Bedoya
Jamie Bennett
Brett Cook
Deborah Fisher
Maria Rosario Jackson
Lucy R. Lippard
Rick Lowe
Michael Rohd
Claire Tancons
Dominic Willsdon
Karina Muranaga
Sabrina Chin
Emma Colón
Prerana Reddy