More Art in the Public Eye offers critical insight into the ever-growing field of socially engaged public art by demonstrating how the committed collaboration of artists, community members, and cultural producers can meaningfully impact our collective futures. Presented through the lens of More Art's fifteen-year history, the public art projects featured in this book expose issues of systemic inequality and injustice, stoke debate, and inspire alternatives. Artists and participants reflect on their works in newly conducted interviews, while essays from thinkers and actors in the field help situate the projects and the mission of socially engaged art in terms of greater cultural and political paradigms. More Art in the Public Eye establishes the framework for the conditions under which organizations like More Art operate, highlights the many meta-questions behind socially engaged public art, and seeks to amplify the wide array of voices that make up a project.
Contributors. Rebecca Amato, Michael Birchall, Ofri Cnaani, Michelle Coffey, Jennifer Dalton, Emma Drew, Pablo Helguera, Mary Jane Jacob, Jessica Lynne, Jeff Kasper, Kimsooja, Micaela Martegani, Andrea Mastrovito, Tony Oursler, William Powhida, Ernesto Pujol, Michael Rakowitz, Kirk Savage, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Gregory Sholette, Xaviera Simmons, Krzysztof Wodiczko
- Cover
- Contents
- Forword:
More Art’s Mission is Our Mission
- Preface
- Introductions
- A Practice of Public Art Adapted to the Present: Fifteen Years of More Art in New York City
- A History of Socially Engaged Art and the Expanded Field of Public Art Production
- Philanthropy and Socially Engaged Art,
Today
- Chapter 1. Working Towards an Egalitarian Society
- Can a Transformative Avant-Garde Art Survive in a World of Lolcats, Doomsday Preppers, and Xenophobic Frog Memes? Do We Have a Choice?
- El Club de Protesta (2011)
- On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide (2014)
- 9-5 (2015)
- Chapter 2. American Imperialism As
the New Normal
- Against Heroism
- Enemy Kitchen (2006-07)
- Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Project (2012)
- NYsferatu: Symphony of a Century (2017)
- Chapter 3. Me, Myself, and We
- Narrating Ourselves Anew
- AWGTHTGTWTA (2008)
- An Album: Hudson Guild (2009-10)
- When You’re Looking at Me, You’re Looking at Country (2011-12)
- Chapter 4. (Dis)placeCalled Home
- Displacement is the New Dispossession: A Word from Our Neighbors
- Moon
Guardians (2013)
- Residents of New York (2014)
- MONTH2MONTH (2016)
- Afterword
- Where We Are Going Next, Together
- Methodology
- Crafting Your
Theory of Change
- What Does the Future of Socially Engaged Art Look Like?
- Chronology of Public Projects
- Contributors
- Index
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