THE ESSENTIAL ARTIVIST READING LIST (Part Two)
Artist + Activist = ARTivist.
THE ESSENTIAL ARTIVIST READING LIST (Part Two)
Remember, showing up as an artivist looks different for everyone!
Hit me up with any questions you have about artivism! Most days of the week, this is the work I do, and I’d love to talk more about it with you. Hope these resources aid your journey!
MAPPING THE TERRAIN: NEW GENRE PUBLIC ART
Suzanne Lacy, ed. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. San Francisco Bay Area-based performance artist and scholar Suzanne Lacy presents an anthology of original essays by artists and critics, exploring what happens when artists directly engage and address "real-world" audiences in public sites and use public art as an instruments of change. Writing by Baca, Gablik, Jacob, Kaprow, Lippard and others. Include compendium of 90 "pioneering" artists.
MIXED BLESSINGS: NEW ART IN A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
Lucy Lippard. New York: The New Press, 2000. Update of the 1990 classic, with new introduction, discussing the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African- and Asian-American artists. Topics: uncertainty of exile, the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot. and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory.
PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
Paulo Friere
THE PENELOPE PROJECT
An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care: Basting, Towey & Rose
THE PERFORMER’S GUIDE TO THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
by Sheila Kerrigan
PERFORMING COMMUNITIES
An Inquiry into Ensemble Theater Deeply Rooted in Eight US Communities. Located on the CAN Website www.communityarts.net. Click on Icon in Right Column of Home page!
PERFORMING DEMOCRACY
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance, Editors:Susan C. Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus, University of Michigan Press
PLAYING BOAL
Theatre, Therapy, Activism. Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz, editors. Routledge, New York City, NY, 1994. Examination of the techniques and applications of Brazilian theatermaker Augusto Boal, political activist and creator of Theater of the Oppressed. Looks at uses of and modifications of Boal's exercises by scholars and practitioners in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Includes a Boal glossary.
THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE: RADICAL THEATRE AS CULTURAL INTERVENTION
Baz Kershaw. London: Routledge, 1992. Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theater. Analyses in detail the work of key practitioners in socially engaged theatre during four decades, setting each in the context of social, political and cultural history and demonstrating how they may have had a significant impact on social and political history.
PRESSURE ON THE PUBLIC
Hirsch Farm Project 1992. Hirsch Farm Project, Northbrook, IL, 1992.
PURSUING DEMOCRACY’S PROMISE
Craig McGarvey, Grantmakers concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (also a website)
RAINBOW OF DESIRE
Augusto Boal.
REBUILDING THE FRONT PORCH OF AMERICA: ESSAYS ON THE ART OF COMMUNITY MAKING
Patrick Overton. Columbia, Mo.: Columbia College. By the founding director of The Front Porch Institute, dedicated to exploring the role of the arts and culture in the community-making process, especially focusing on the essential role the arts play in engaging citizens in the democracy of civil discourse.
REIMAGINING AMERICA: THE ARTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Mark O'Brien and Craig Little, editors. New Society Publishers, Santa Cruz, CA, 1990. Anthology of articles about the impact of the arts on social movements, documenting such projects as Kids of Survival, Galeria de la Raza, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Goat Island, Teatro Pregones, Voices of Dissent, Gran Fury and more. Fifty contributors include artists, critics and community activists.
SITTING IN THE FIRE
Arnie Mindell. Conflict Facilitation.
STAGING AMERICA
Sonja Kuftinec. Book on Cornerstone Theater Company.
THE SUBVERSIVE IMAGINATION: ARTISTS, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Carol Becker, editor. Routledge, New York City, 1994. Contributors from South Africa, the Czech Republic, Iran, Poland, Mexico and the U.S. discuss the role of artists in their own societies and analyze their activist identities as a basis for their own work. Writers include Fusco, Ehrenberg, Ndebele, Dyson and Sadri.
SUMMARY EVALUATION OF THE ARTISTS AND COMMUNITIES PILOT INITIATIVE
M. Christine Dwyer and Susan L Frankel. Portsmouth, N.H.: RMC Research Corp., 2000. Professional evaluation of a government funded initiative in Canada during the late 1990s. Looks at 12 arts-and-community partnership projects, reporting findings about the structure of the overall grantmaking initiative and the design and outcomes of the projects. Useful evaluation model for the field.
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS : THE SOCIAL PROTEST THEATER OF LUIS VALDEZ AND AMIRI BARAKA
Elam, Harry J., Jr. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1997. A comparison of the performance methodologies, theories and practices of Luis Valdez (El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater), and Amiri Baraka (Black Revolutionary Theater) during the 1960s and ‘70s as examples of social protest theater during a tumultuous historical period.
TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS
bell hooks. Short articles on radical pedagogy.
THEATRE FOR COMMUNITY, CONFLICT & DIALOGUE: THE HOPE IS VITAL TRAINING MANUAL
Michael Rohd. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. A blueprint for the Hope Is Vital interactive theater techniques for creating dialogue and emotionally safe space for dialogue with young people. Includes exercises, scene work and theatermaking.
THEATRE FOR YOUTH THIRD SPACE
Performance, Democracy and Community Development by Stephani Etheridge. Woodson http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo22230202.html
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED
Augusto Boal. London: Pluto Press, 2000. New edition of classic work on radical drama, brought up-to-date with a new introduction by the Brazilian author and director. Depicts theater as a popular form of communication and expression and instrument of social change, drawing on theories of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Brecht and Marx.
And there you have it. THE ESSENTIAL ARTIVIST READING LIST (Part Two) Don’t forget to check out Part One!
Time for a little art break. Check out Dax Norman for the best GIF’s!
*Hi friend! I’m almost brand-new here, just over a week! I’m releasing content every day as part of @MarkRMorrisJr’s #DolphinSchool Bootcamp along with 20 other awesome emerging authors. I’ll be using steemit to share thoughts on artistic practice, arts opportunities, equity, my personal projects, and other fun things happening in my world (like hiking!). Check out some feminist truth for another taste! See you around! -- @lilyraabe
Oh wow. That's a comprehensive list. My nighttime reading is sorted for the next month!
My master thesis was on the role of art and artists in urban practice during which I came across a lot of (European) examples of art to drive dialogue about a city's past, to be inclusive in making urban decisions, as a means to bring about social healing, as a tool to transform a dead industrial city to a 'creative' economy driven by art and artists.
I don't think these are necessarily Artivist but somehow within the realm of using arts for purposes apart from plain display.
Oh man, these are really neat articles! :) Thank you for sharing them and for being on steemit and sharing this amazing content with the community here! I’m already following you, and I’m looking forward to reading more of your stuff!
I am an artivist! Also in my community i am starting a consultation / counseling practice that will be to help artists and activists be emotionally sustainable so that they can do their best work. Since you are new, have you heard of Slothicorn? Look it up and find the origin story for it i think you might like it! :) <3 How does one get to be a part of the dolphin school?
That’s awesome! Thanks for the Slothicorn recommendation, I’ll check it out! For dolphin school go follow @dolphinschool for announcements on the next round and to connect with @markrmorrisjr about how he’s helping minnows! :)
You made those?
Nope! Good catch, I added a credit to the dude who did, so many details to attend to on here! He is so GOOD, everyone should be checking out his stuff!
They are really good! How he do it? heh.
Artistic genius! :)
I threw a message at you on Facebook. I have no idea how that happened.
I think all social media is connected in some way. I get a LOT of stuff on FB because I have 4 business accounts that I’m running there...so missed it in the flurry...That’s funny I joined some FB steemit groups so they must have made that connection.
I joined some as well! It isn't the first time that I randomly met someone elsewhere that I had met on here. The odds of that happening must be extremely low! I mean they say 50,000 new accounts are made on Steemit every day. What are the odds? lol
They also say it just became one of the top 1000 sites in the world, so I feel like we’ll probably start seeing this happen more and more. The internet makes the world even smaller it seems.
Wow, this is really amazing! I have a TON of reading to do now! Also, those GIF graphics are super cool, do you make them yourself?
Have my one-cent Updoot, a nice resteem, and I'll follow for more to boot! Great job.
Hey! Thanks for stopping by and checking out the resources! Check out Dax Norman for the best gif’s (he’s also linked above!) https://giphy.com/daxnorman/
I was just looking at that. Did he do the two at the top? That heart one is amazing, but it doesn't look like his style.
The heart one is from a few different sources on giphy so I didn’t list anyone in particular. But if you do just type in “street art” on giphy you get some cool things. The face is https://giphy.com/xavieralopez (also has tiny link). Maybe I’ll make a post with all the giphy accounts I follow and their work so folks can find neat ones! :)
I tossed together this quick little article with some of my fav artists to help share the love for them. <3 https://steemit.com/steemit/@lilyraabe/how-s-your-art-6-bold-gif-artists-to-spice-up-your-posts
I love all the gif's you share on your posts! So Dax Norman made the heart pumping one too? Seeing all these rad gif's makes me want to play with more stop motion animation stuff and make more, too. More awesome reference materials for me to come back to and read, as well. Thanks again for an awesome post and sharing great works
Hey! There’s a response about the heart one just above here. If you go on giphy there’s multiple sources for it, i.e. multiple people uploaded it so if you really want to track it down you could dig into all those posts...but it’s not clearly tied to a distinct artist account like the Dax Norman and Xaviera Lopez stuff. :)
Also, tossed together this quick little article to help share the love for these gif artists. https://steemit.com/steemit/@lilyraabe/how-s-your-art-6-bold-gif-artists-to-spice-up-your-posts\
Hello @lilyraabe, welcome and keep linking your posts in steemsugars postpromo so we can easily find them!
Thanks for stopping by and reminding me! Will go drop this over there now. :)
Yo there is some really cool stuff in here... Obviously that amazing beating heart drew me in.
Thanks for sharing all that, following you for the next one!
Hey! Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Goal is to also put out a few reading lists of online articles/resources that are easier for folks to access than these books! See you around. :)
You got a 50.0% upvote from @therising courtesy of @lilyraabe
Great collection. Thanks for sharing!
And thank you for stopping by! :)