Open Engagement

The Forest of Repairations

admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 06:10:24 +0000

This is a collaborative, site-specific project with university students,
school students and members of the community in Eugene, OR. Our
installation opened March 12, 2011 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
on the University of Oregon campus and runs through early September 2011.

Choreography in Everyday Life

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:23:08 +0000

Amelia Winger-Bearskin, performance artist and editor of ArtArtZine.com hosts “Choreography in Everyday Life” an interactive performance art workshop Sunday 10am-11:30am (Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall). Participants will create works of performance art throughout the city of Portland, no previous performance experience necessary, welcome to all artists and community artists with a special invitation to to other 4D artists at Open Engagement. There will be a guided warm up exercise, spacial organizational body work and participants will create live performance works throughout the local conference area.

tART

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:40:36 +0000

We hope to meet a lot of you at conference; if you are interested in what we are about, cannot make the presentation but would like to somehow meet up – you can reach us at cell: 212 865-2108
www.tARTnyc.org
http://twitter.com/#!/tartnyc
https://www.facebook.com/people/Tart-Artists/1263557833

How to Explain a Contemporary Art Audience to a Robotic Hare

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:38:06 +0000

How to Explain a Contemporary Art Audience

to a Robotic Hare

A game designed for

Open Engagement 2011: Art + Social Practice,

an annual conference on socially engaged art.

May 14, 2011

We are inviting you to participate in a game designed to elicit opinions about contemporary art and its audience. Our game is based on chance and mystery. It is fully dependent on audience participation.

OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME:

The objective of the game is to foster conversations about contemporary art and its audience.

EQUIPMENT:

• For on-site participants:

A hand-made game board, two dice, ‘Allan’ the robotic hare, postcards, and the passerby.

• For remote participants:

A website (robotichare.com) is designed for off-site participants.

You can send ‘Allan’ a question via this website.

PREPARATION:

The board will be placed on the sidewalk where passerby traffic is expected. The participants will be asked to pick a question from the list. The artist will forward the question to “Allan.” With the help of the dices the answer of the question will be determined. The artist will write the answer on the postcard and ask the participant to provide a mailing address. The answer will be mailed to this address. Each participant will receive a unique answer to the selected question.

EXECUTION:

The receivers of the postcards are asked to scan or photograph (cell phone quality is fine) the postcards, and email the image back to the artists to display on the project website (robotichare.com) with the questions. The receivers are invited to add/edit the answers.

Best wishes,

Arzu Ozkal & Nanette Yannuzzi

OE ROGUE

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:50:29 +0000

OE ROGUE is a daily supplement to your conference catalogue.

- Become our friend on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100002428774290

- Follow us on Twitter: @oerogue

- Look for updates and more information at www.oerogue.wordpress.com

Creative Migration

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:49:08 +0000

Creative Migration - panel discusses past, present and future work – includes preview screening of the new short film, The Green American Road Trip

Saturday, May 14th, 2011
10:00am-11:30am
Creative Migration
“People and Publics”
Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall

panelists include:
Gabriel Mindel-Saloman (Red76)
Colin Mutchler (LoudSauce/Green Patriot Posters)
Christopher Steidle (Creative Migration)
Susannah Tantemsapya (Creative Migration)

Creative Migration is a not-for-profit organization that produces documentary films promoting socially engaged art projects that mobilize change. Through an original documentary web series, our programming instigates awareness, action and collective impact.

* note – Colin Mutchler is taking the place of Edward Morris to discuss the Green Patriot Posters project

Xhurch: Residential Residency

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:34 +0000

Xhurch: Residential Residency
with Ashley Florence, Matthew Henderson, and Peter Pendergrass

at
4550 NE 20TH
PORTLAND, OR 97211

SCHEDULE of EVENTS May 10 – 15 / 2011

(follow our project at http://residingxhurch.tumblr.com/)

Tuesday 10 May – Thursday 12 May

· Getting to Know Sabin + Meeting Neighbors
· Sourcing plants from Neighbors
· Planting Planting Planting
· Listening and Talking
· Rearranging and Organizing

If you are in town, please feel free to come over, get your hands dirty, rearrange the pews, take a nap if you need one, drink some tea, find some groundcover with us, practice your guitar, stretch..

Friday 13 May

3pm – What is Xhurch? – A presentation on the church’s history, its present use, how it relates to Open Engagement, homesteading efforts, and changing notions of residentiality.
·
4pm – Garden scoring by Alan Singley
Saturday 14 May

9-11am – BREAK FAST with us + Open Source Gardening - Come eat with us and tour the (neighbor) sources of Xhurch’s garden

7pm – Sound Ordinance – A live concert at 55 decibels, featuring local mbirist, Marion Grebanier and 2011 PDX PopNow! artist, Swahili
Sunday 15 May

10am-2pm – Xhurches bicycle tour & bike rack christening (come bike with us and tour repurposed churches) • 10AM-2PM
7 pm - Last Supper - A community feast brought to you by Cully Neighborhood Farm • 7 PM **PLEASE RSVP to meal by email at ashley@ashleyflorence.com or by text 7035825207 so we can plan to feed you!!

(Everyone is invited to everything always)

Bureau for Open Culture-There Is Only Light (We Do Not Know What To Do With Other Worlds)

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:26:50 +0000

Performance

Wednesday, May 11 @ 8 p.m.

Field Work, 1101 SW Jefferson, Portland, OR

As a part of Bureau for Open Culture’s On Symptoms of Cultural Industry, the performance There Is Only Light (We Do Not Know What To Do With Other Worlds) draws on documentation of labor histories, lived experience, and the nostalgia–or longing–that surfaces in the wake of failed industries.

This performance will be recorded and then projected as part of the installation presented for Open Engagement.

Open Engagement Needs Volunteers!!!

admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:12:06 +0000

Dear Friends,

Open Engagement 2011 is happening May 13-15th, and we really the help of wonderful people like yourself to volunteer! There are lots of ways to get involved this year, whether you can give us an hour of your time or 3 full days! It’s an amazing opportunity to meet and connect with artists from all over the country and world, and it’s great for your resume. You can find out more about Open Engagement on our website, http://openengagement.inf

We need your help:

Installing exhibitions on PSU’s campus! (May 7th, 8th, and 9th)

Welcoming our out of town presenters! (May 12th and 13th)
We need people to help us greet our out of town contributors at the airport with a smiling face and directions with how to get from the airport to their host home. It’s a really special Open Engagement tradition.

Stuffing conference tote bags!
We need help putting the conference materials in each of the bags and tying the appropriate name tag on to them and make sure the proper invitations are inserted. Once done these will be boxed and alphabetized for ease of access at the registration table.

With documentation!
Documentarians can help us by taking video and still photography during various conference events. Great experience for your CV! We need a core crew of volunteers to document main events, sessions, workshops, panels and generally all that is going on including our off site locations and events.

At the registration table!
These friendly faces anchor the “home base” of the conference, the registration table. The registration table/info point is the heart of our conference operations. It will also be the center of the most up-to-date conference information, and general point of contact. (generally it works best if volunteers can commit to a three-hour shift at the registration table)

During the final diner on Sunday night!
We need volunteers to help us set up/clean up for the final dinner on Sunday night at PNCA (no dishes this year!)

As our Go-To Guy (or lady)!
We need someone with a car available to be a runner in case of any conference emergency.

With specific artist’s projects!
Artist Becca Lotchie needs one or two volunteers to help her with her Late-Night Diner project on Friday night.

If you want to get involved, we’ll be holding a volunteer orientation on Sunday, May 8th, at 7pm and on Monday, May 9th at 3pm in room 320 of the PSU Art Building, 2000 SW 5th Ave. We’ll also have a volunteer meeting on Thursday May 12th at 5:30. Please RSVP for the orientation by Friday, May 6th. Please include your cell phone number, and if you already know when you’re going to available to volunteer, those dates/times.

If you have more questions about what these specific jobs entail, other ways to get involved, scheduling conflicts, etcetera, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

I can’t tell you enough how important volunteers are to making this year’s Open Engagement a success. To thank you for your time, we can give you a conference tote bag and we’ll be holding a “Thank YOU!” punch party on Friday, May 20th.

All my best,
Crystal Baxley
Volunteer Coordinator
503.319.6015

Landfill CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:29:01 +0000

Landfill is an online archive and quarterly subscription service that studies
socially engaged artworks by documenting and redistributing the material
byproducts they produce. The Landfill Archive includes scanned images
of leftover materials and short descriptions of the projects they publicized
and enabled. Each issue of Landfill Quarterly will contain selected pieces
of ephemera from the Archive and a printed journal that contextualizes the
objects through essays, images, and interviews. Landfill has three aims: to
provide projects with a second venue for reception, to build a cumulative and
nonlinear history of socially engaged practice, and to pull diverse practices into
conversation by reframing them in writing.

Attend the conversation about Landfill at Field Work on Friday, May 13th at
4pm (just after parallel sessions). In addition to discussing the project, we’ll be
accepting material submissions. If you have ephemera from past projects you
would like included in the Archive, please bring them.

For more information, visit www.thelandfill.org.
If you have questions, e-mail submit@thelandfill.org.