4 documents
A Counter-Progressivist Turn?
Gregory Sholette and Todd Ayoung
e-flux Notes
Posted: March 3, 2023
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Socially Engaged Art, Art Collectives
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 21, 2022
Subjects
Art Collectives, Global South, Biennials, Germany, Art Activism
Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Social Studies: Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette Discuss Social Practice Queens
Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette
e-flux
Posted: May 3, 2019
Category
Education, Urbanism, Race & Ethnicity
Subjects
Socially Engaged Art, Ethics, Money & Finance, Art Activism, Protests & Demonstrations, Public Space, Academia, Science, Crisis, Law & Justice, Institutional Critique, Representation
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After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social
Gregory Sholette
In the third chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick , the novel’s protagonist, Ishmael, enters the Spouter Inn in search of passage onto a whaling ship. He soon encounters an age-darkened oil painting in the entranceway and becomes perplexed. The canvas is so covered in scratches and smoky residue that it’s all but impossible to make sense of. Throwing open a window to gain more light, Ishmael attempts to describe what he sees:
what most puzzled and confounded you was a long,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2012
Category
Education
Subjects
Occupy, Socially Engaged Art, Abstraction, Protests & Demonstrations