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Identity Exchange
We had our symposium yesterday and there is much to say about it. Let it suffice, for the moment anyway, to say it was great and excellent and I, at least, really enjoyed everything people discussed and presented. Before writing … Continue reading
Artists in the Forest of Arden
“Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love. / And thou, thrice crowned Queen of Night, survey / With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, / Thy huntress’ name that my full life doth sway. / O … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Economy
Tagged ACRE, Arden, Artist, Caroline Picard, Forest, Residency, Shakespeare
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The Position of Criticality
I continue to think about AS220, specifically about what it means to create and support work in a defiantly non-critical environment. AS220 is, of course, not the only space that fosters, first and for most, the creative impulse but it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Participation, Uncategorized
Tagged AS220, Caroline Picard, criticality, Providence, Rhode Island, Umberto Crenca
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If I Take Care of You Others Will Take Care of Me
For the month of July, I was an artist-in-residence at AS220, a non-profit art space located in the heart of downtown Providence, RI. The space is remarkable for numerous reasons: it began illegally almost 25 years ago, when some artists … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Economy, Participation
Tagged Artist in residence, AS220, Canada, Caroline Picard, community, Empire Street, Foo Fest, If I take care of you others will take care of me, If I take less others have more, Okanagans, print shop, Providence, Reciprocity, Rhode Island, Shepard Fairey
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Handshake Games
In greeting one another there is an expectation. You put your hand out with the expectation it will be received in a reciprocal clasp. Some kind of up-down-shake is expected. They say you can learn everything about a person … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Poetry
Tagged AE Simns, Bitch Smack, Caroline Picard, Duck Hunt, First Impressions first touch, Handshake, Reciprocity, The Cold War, The Comrade, The Rifle
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Identity in Action
When I think of reciprocity, I visualize a call-and-response scenario: a give and take, or the meeting of a positive action with a subsequent positive action. In order to understand reciprocity one must therefore define boundaries: to attribute one action … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Participation
Tagged Caroline Picard, identity, Reciprocity, The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton
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Potential Return
When I was a child we sometimes played a game in the school gymnasium. My kindergarten class would line up around the periphery of a parachute-blanket. Everybody grabbed a piece of the outside and, following the count of a teacher, … Continue reading
Yearning for Reciprocity
Between the small towns of Štúrovo in Slovakia and Esztergom in Hungary flows the river Danube, five hundred metres wide. Now the Mária Valéria bridge connects both towns and spans the border between both countries, but from 1944 till 2001 the bridge lay in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Performance
Tagged Erik Hagoort, giving, homesick, receiving, yearning
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Collective Actions Encounter
The header image of this blog shows the outcome of a 1970s event by the Moscow conceptual art group Collective Actions. Most of their actions consisted of situations in which a group of people, invited by the action’s organizers, participated in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Participation, Performance
Tagged Collective Actions, Encounter, Performance, Reciprocity
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