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Reimagining the Urban: Megan Hoetger

This entry was posted in Blog Reimagining the Urban - September 2013 and tagged temporality Reimagining the Urban long-term radical on by .

The long-term is a durational temporality. If I set this against the continuous present of the participle, ‘re-imagining’–the keyword which leads the title of the symposium–what kind of time do I find myself in? The call for the long-term engagement is a particularly fraught one for the field of visual art practice forcing the surface a series of questions, like: how long is enough for an artist to engage a community? How long should the dialogue be? How long does the project go?

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Occupy as Form: Scott Tsuchitani

This entry was posted in Blog Occupy as Form - February 2012 and tagged radical occupy as form engaged neoliberal on by .

The word “radical” has more or less become a pejorative in the mainstream, narrowly associated with (senseless?) acts of violence, and consistently applied in this way to marginalize actions, actors, and ideas which would otherwise call into question structures of dominance. It’s become so deeply ingrained that one wonders if truly radical thought itself isn’t on the verge of becoming unthinkable, even among cultural workers.

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