Political Art Lectures for 2014

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I'm writing to share resources for teachers looking for a NYC-based field trips for classes on art/politics/sociology/archives, etc: INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE ON-SITE TOURS I recently began an appointment as the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive [www.interferencearchive.org], a public archive of political art ephemera in Brooklyn. See a NY Times article…
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Makers: Actors, Artists, … Users

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Who makes activist/political arts? The individuals and groups who make this kind of cultural production are primarily: movement actors [e.g. activists] within the communities meant to experience and co-create the work; artists, cultural activists, tool-having professionals, also often from within the discourse communities. These groups are far from mutually exclusive…
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Deprivileging In/visibility

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[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="300"] Glitter painting by Cherry Poppins[/caption] There's been recent help me with my homework conversation about custom writing paper in/visibility as it relates to queer femme communities, and, acknowledging that it can be a crucial, informing personal experience, I want to talk about why I don't like to…
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