Artists-in-Residence Announced for Homework!
We are very pleased to announce the following artists in residence for our upcoming Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices project.
These artists were selected from over 120 applicants and represent an incredibly diverse range of practices, interests, and backgrounds:
- Andrea Carvalho Montreal, QC
- Brennan Broome and Chloé Womack Portland, OR
- Brett Randall Jones & Jack Forinash Oakland/San Francisco, CA
- Charlie Michaels Ann Arbor/Detroit, MI
- Department of Unusual Certainties Toronto, ON
- Zoe Kreye Berlin / Victoria, BC
- Elliott Jocic Montreal, QC / Toronto, ON
- Immony Men Toronto, ON
- Laura Leif Calgary, AB
- Lea Bucknell London, ON
- Megan Deal Detroit, MI
- Nick Tobier Ann Arbor/Detroit, MI
- Rodrigo Marti Los Angeles, CA / Toronto, ON
- spmb Winnipeg, MB / São Paulo
- Roving Studio Seattle, WA
We’ll be announcing our keynotes and conference participants soon, followed by further details on the entire project in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you should consider registering to attend the conference (ps. it’s free).
HOMEWORK: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices is four-day residency, two-day conference, and collaboratively-written publication aimed at generating conversation around the following:
- alternative infrastructures,
- radical collaboration,
- social practice,
- art implicated in social change,
- neighbourhood-level activities,
- city-wide imaginations,
- site-specific curiosities,
- tactical resistance,
- new models for art education and research.
Facilitated by Broken City Lab, HOMEWORK calls on artists, scholars, writers, thinkers, and doers interested in any of the above to join us in Windsor, Ontario on October 21 and October 22, 2011.
Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the University of Windsor’s School of Visual Arts, and our community partner the Art Gallery of Windsor.
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![On Day 2 of our ATTC Calgary with Truck Gallery’s CAMPER Urban Discovery project, our ongoing work finds us asking questions about a city that we’re still just getting to know. The questions are, necessarily, basic and straight forward. We’re not conducting deep sociological or statistical research, but rather trying to tease out a series of narratives that [...]](http://d1ugx41kvdwavn.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_3290-150x150.jpg "ATTC Calgary Day 2: Stories of a Distanced City")
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![We spent the day in Hamilton again, this time walking around downtown as Official Hamilton History Hunters, building a timeline of Hamilton’s history with the help of city residents and visitors around Jackson Square, a multi-use complex in the downtown core. Both Hiba and I had specific tasks that we alternated during our investigation. Hiba [...]](http://d1ugx41kvdwavn.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_61001-150x150.jpg "Two Tales of a City: Hamilton History Hunters Day 2")
![The rain held off, so today was a good day to get out and do some field tests for our magnetic planters. We just stuck around the neighbourhood, but did a general test to see what surfaces were magnetic. Unfortunately, the street signs that I had anticipated being a perfect surface for these are not [...]](http://d1ugx41kvdwavn.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/img_2255-cc-150x150.jpg "Magnetic Planters: Field Test #1")
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![After various discussions over the break regarding the next steps in preparing our giant banner for the upcoming project in Hamilton, I went ahead and did some experimenting with image transfers onto fabric. I took direction from a handy post here, which included simple directions and very few ingredients. With a simple picture printed [...]](http://d1ugx41kvdwavn.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/IMG_6470-150x150.jpg "Fabric Transfers and Letter Tracing: More Preparations for Two Tales of A City")
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a shout out to a #ldnont artist taking part in @BrokenCityLab ‘s Homework http://t.co/GCNOQ8g