This is the first in a five part series I will be writing about Chicago art for the Belgian art magazine H-Art. This first article appeared in their 44th issue in early December 2008.
Series Description: Chicago Illinois USA is a place where people pass through and people settle. In terms of cultural work, it is [...]
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Chicago Art Series: Article #1 on History
Posted in Essays on December 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Town Hall Talks
Posted in Essays on September 25, 2008 | No Comments »
In March 2008 I worked with Nato Thompson and Creative Time from New York City to organize a massive research project to document local socially and politically engaged cultural work going on in five cities throughout the US. We came up with five questions that we hoped would capture the diversity of ideological, methodological, organizational, [...]
Getting to know your city
Posted in Essays on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Getting to know your city
and the social movements that call it home
by Daniel Tucker
Published in In the Middle of a Whirlwind Edited by Team Colors and Published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Introduction
This text will outline a methodology for researching local social movements as a means to analyze their history, effectiveness, and strategic ability [...]