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Socially Engaged Research Action Project

The projects below are all examples of socially engaged art.

REVIEW the list below, titles and artists first. What catches your eye? Click on the Wikipedia pages. What information do you learn? What projects are you drawn to? Why?

Touch Sanitation	Mierle Laderman Ukeles	artist page
Three Weeks in May	Suzanne Lacy	page
End of the Line	The Border Art Workshop/Taller De Arte Fronterizo	border art
The Year of the White Bear: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West	Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco	page
The Living Museum	Bolek Greczynski	page
Project Row Houses	Rick Lowe	page
Fairytale	Ai Weiwei	artist page
Bill T. Jones	Still/Here	artist page
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans	Paul Chan	artist page
Revive Time: Kaki Tree Project	Tatsuo Miyajima	artist page
Key to the City	Paul Ramírez Jonas	artist page
Learning to Love You More	Miranda July	page
Funk Lessons	Adrian Piper	artist page

PARTNER with another student. We will decide in class if this will be your choice or mine.

CHOOSE an artwork from the list above. First come, first-served, so have a second and third choice. Propose a different piece for approval if you wish.

CREATE a poster presentation of the basics for presentation on Sunday, May 5:

(a) Who is/are the artist(s)?

(b) What is/are their media?

(c) Where does the work appear?

(d) Is it permanent or temporary?

(e) Who is/was its audience?

(f) What issue, message, or concern was central to the work?

(g) How have historians or media responded critically to the work?

(h) What makes this work art?

EDIT the Wikipedia page listed above by adding at least three citations for information currently on the page or adding information, with citations, to the page. Additional directions will be provided for Wikipedia editing and all editing will take place in class.