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JUST:TEXT is a provisional archive of social justice documents displayed at the Sojourner Truth Library on the SUNY New Paltz campus from November – December in conjunction with a lecture by MIT linguist and political scholar Noam Chomsky and writer/film maker Anthony Arnove in honor of social historian Howard Zinn.

 

 

 

       A Map Lacking Boundaries is a mail art project published by Regional Relationships in the Spring of 2011. The project contains diagrams of the Appalachian watershed system as well as paper, pen, brush and a pigment derived from Ohio’s abandoned mines. These tools, along with the accompanying diagrams  can be used to visualize nature/culture entanglements  in other regions. These diagrams will be collected as part of an ongoing archive to be include in future exhibitions.

Liberty of Empire. January 7 – February 12, 2011. 1708 Gallery. Richmond VA. January 7, 2011: Opening Reception and Artist Talk February 4, 2011: First Friday Reception. In 2010 the Texas Board of Education passed legislation to remove Thomas Jefferson from history textbooks. Soon after, the board voted to strike the word “democratic” from references to the U.S. government. The Liberty of Empire is a provisional laboratory for the study of the practices, institutions and instruments of history.

OCEA(n) is one of thirteen works presented in this year’s Whitney Independent Study Program exhibition called “UNDERCURRENTS: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art.” Organized by curatorial fellows Anik Fournier, Michelle Lim, Amanda Parmer and Robert Wuilfe, the exhibition was held from May 27th through June 19th, 2010, at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street, New York City), and is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue published by Whitney Museum in association with Yale University Press. OCEA(n): Ocean Commons Entanglement Apparatus (in the absence of the concept of ‘Nature’) is a collaborative spurse project designed to introduce people to the complexities of gathering and protecting living resources of the oceans. OCEA(n)  includes three mobile research platforms, each of which contain tools to engage a series of specific questions concerning monitoring, mapping and eating.

 

Nelsonville Bypass – American Recovery Act Project

 

“. . . in a most dangerous manner” Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Ohio. Curated by Steven Lam and Sarah Ross. January 29 – March 26, 2010. “… in a most dangerous manner” serves as a working research archive that demonstrates how “economic crises” have often been used to restructure and restore class divisions. The exhibition seeks to recast current economic conditions as not quite a crisis, a temporal anomaly, nor a failure in governmental regulations, but as a cycle common to the last 150 years of American (and increasingly global) financial markets. Employing abstraction, metaphor, and narrative, the artists inject their work into current discussions surrounding economic recovery and stability, while imagining potential exits from this system. Featuring projects from a mix of emerging and established national artists, “…in a most dangerous manner” showcases art, a publication, found objects, documents, screenings, performances, and town-hall discussions. Artists presenting in the exhibition include Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Julia Christensen, Elaine Gan, Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida, Lize Mogel, Claire Pentecost, Ohio University School of Art Critical Regionalism Initiative (Kainaz Amaria, Matthew Friday, Ray Klimek, Jeff Lovett, Yates McKee, Jason Nein, Spurse), Katya Sander, and Allan Sekula.