We encourage thoughtful public dialogue around contemporary art history, theory, and criticism and social justice. Dialogic Communities aspires to reinvigorate a spirit of community, open up explorations in contemporary visual art, and serve as an informal public art education model. Dialogic Communities is inspired by Paulo Freire, Free Schools, Joseph Beuys’ professorship, Jacques Ranciere and other more discursive art historical and education public cultures.
Past Discussions 2012-2014:
10/10-12/12 Joshua Decter, Art is a Problem
2/27-4/24 David Joselit, After Art
9/25-12/4 Arthur C. Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-historical Perspective. (1991 book).
2/28 Andy Beckett, A User's Guide to Art Speak, from Guardian UK. (July editorial)
3/28 Anton Vidokle, Art Without Markets, Art Without Education: Political Economy of Art, from e-flux online (March issue).
4/25 Randy Kennedy, Outside the Citadel: Social Practice Art is Intended to Nurture, from New York Times (March editorial).
4/25 Jerry Saltz, Tilda Switon in a Box and How Living Art has Become MoMA's Crystal Meth, from New York Magazine (March editorial)
8/30 Hal Foster, Post-Critical, from October. (April issue).
9/27 Alexander Alberro, Life Models, from Frieze (June issue).
10/25 Claire Bishop, Digital Divide, from Art Forum (October issue).
11/29 Ellen Feiss, What is Useful? The Paradox of Rights in Tania Bruguera's Useful Art, from Art & Education online (November issue).
Extended Reading on Dialogic Communities:
W. Keith Brown's essay in Sixty Inches From Center
http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.