community-based, non-corporate, participatory media
The Monongahela Conference - On Post Industrial Community Development - Art, Ecology,
by Noel
Thursday, Oct. 02, 2003 at 1:25 PM
ndh@andrew.cmu.edu 412-268-3673
Three Free Public Events on art and change
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The Monongahela Conference
On Post Industrial Community Development
Art, Ecology, and Planning with people - influencing public places we care
about.
October 23rd & 25th, 2003
Three FREE PUBLIC EVENTS on art and change
Presented by 3 Rivers 2nd Nature, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and
Carnegie Mellon University with The Center for Arts in Society, the School
of Art, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, and the Vice Provost for Education
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Thursday, October 23rd, 4:30-6:30 PM
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater - 4400 Forbes Avenue - Pittsburgh, PA
Lecture/Discussion
PLATFORM of London.
A five person collective, PLATFORM provokes desire for a democratic and
ecological society. They have developed images of London with its lost
rivers returned and anticipated a very near future where an oil based
global economy is seen as a bad dream. Seemingly impossible visions are
introduced into the space of imagination, where they have the potential to
move into the spaces of desire and reality. PLATFORM works with economists,
community activists and educators. They have been involved in art and
environmental campaigns throughout Europe. Discussion to follow.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 6:30-8:00 PM
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater - 4400 Forbes Avenue - Pittsburgh, PA
Lecture/Discussion
Authors Suzi Gablik, Grant Kester and Malcolm Miles will participate in a
panel discussion on the subject of art, change and the public realm. Suzi
Gablik, author of �Has Modernism Failed� and �The Reenchantment of Art,�
continues her work as a principal critical theorist working to define a
socially engaged and environmentally responsible art. Grant Kester, editor
of �Art, Activism and Oppositionality� and author of the soon to be
released �Conversation Pieces: Dialogic Approaches to Modern Art,� focuses
upon the specific ethical and communicative effects of collaborative
interaction on both the artist and their co-participants. Malcolm Miles,
author of �Art Space and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures� and the
soon to be released �Urban Avant Gardes and Social Transformation: Art,
Architecture and Change,� is interested in the momentary realizations of
liberation within the routines of everyday life. Discussion to follow.
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Saturday, Oct 25, 1:30-3:30 PM: A RIVER-TOWN MEETING
Carnegie Library ? 419 Library Street ? Braddock, PA
We will discuss and devise ways to influence the public places we care
about. EVERYONE is invited to sit, talk and stir up a bit of creative
trouble with a group of artists, activists and environmentalists from
Pittsburgh, England, and the United States. Participants include Jackie
Brookner, Angelo Ciotti, Helen and Newton Harrison, Laurie Palmer, Tom and
Connie Merriman, Platform, Temporary Services, Ground Zero, and many
others.
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For additional information,
please contact Tim Collins
at 412-268-3673 or tcollins@andrew.cmu.edu
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CREATIVITY IS NATIONAL INCOME
J.Beuys
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