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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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(preface): Art As Social Action

Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass, Social Practice Queens (SPQ), New York City.

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Introductory Essays

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Where who we are matters: Through Art to Our More Social Selves 

Chloë Bass, New York City.

 

Pedagogy as Art

Mary Jane Jacob, Chicago, Illinois.

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Lesson plans I. Art as Social Research / Listening / Self-care

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Transactions, Roles and Research

Marilyn Lennon, Julie Griffiths, and Maeve Collins, Limerick, Ireland.

 

Luxury to Low-End Link. An Economic Inequity

Experiment for the age of Brand Temples

Noah Fischer, New York City.

 

Activating the Archive

Ryan Lee Wong, New York City.

 

What will your work organize?

Ashley Hunt, Los Angeles, California.

 

The listening workshop. A two-hour relational encounter

that exposes the politics of voice and listening

Fiona Whelan, Dublin, Ireland.

 

Social Practice Studio

Katie Bachler and Scott Berzofsky, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Ways of Being (Support)

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, New York City.

 

SexEd + PPNYC + Parsons

Norene Leddy and Liz Slagus, New York City.

 

Sounding Place – MA SPACE Acouscenic Listening Workshop

Sean Taylor, Limerick, Ireland.

 

Participatory Asset Mapping

Susan Jahoda, The Pedagogy Group, New York City

 

Calling in Sick

Taraneh Fazeli, The Pedagogy Group, New York City.

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Essay

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Toward a Social Practice Pedagogy

The Pedagogy Group, New York City.

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Lesson plans II: Teaching and Performing Direct Action

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The Arts For Social Change. Development of a Strategic Plan for Direct Action

Christopher Robbins, Ghana ThinkTank, New York City.

 

Assignment: Displace an Object or Everyday Action

Pedro Lasch, Durham, North Carolina.

 

Socratic Mapping

Daniel Tucker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

“Graphic Responses to the NW Detention Center:

Work by Art & Global Justice Students”

Beverly Naidus, Tacoma, Washington.

 

Interventionist Art: Strategy and Tactics.

Graduate course for Art and Public Policy

Todd Ayoung, Ithaca, New York.

 

March of Solidarity: Cultural Workers of St. Petersburg, Russia

School of Engaged Art, Rosa House of Culture, Chto Delat/What is to be Done?, St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

A Training Ground for the Future: Taking On Campus Issues With Art

Sheryl Oring, Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

Misplaced Women? One day long intense Performance Art Workshop on migration, in the public spaces in Belgrade, Serbia, October 29, 2015

Tanja Ostojić, Belgrade, Serbia.

 

Documents of Resistance: Artists of Color Protest (1960–Present)

Collective Timelines

Antonio Serna, New York City.

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Interviews

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What We Produce: Social Models that can be Re-purposed

and Reapplied, an interview of Pablo Helguera

Jeff Kasper and Alix Camacho Vargas, SPQ, New York City.

 

Fail better: An interview with the Center for Artistic Activism

Alix Camacho interviews Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert, New York City.

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Lesson Plans III: Art and Social Injustice

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NYU Flash Collective: An Art Intervention in the Public Sphere

Dipti Desai and Avram Finkelstein, New York City.

 

Future IDs: reframing the narrative of re-entry

Gregory Sale with Aaron Mercado, Dominique Bell, Dr. Luis García, José González, Ryan Lo, and Kirn Kim, Phoenix, Los Angeles, California.

 

Due Time

Sarah Ross, Damon Locks and Fereshteh Toosi, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Balloon Mapping the Calumet River Industrial Corridor in Chicago

Laurie Palmer, Sarah Ross and Lindsey French, Chicago, Illinois.

 

SPURSE Lesson Plan: Designing a Multi-Species Commons

Matthew Friday and Iain Kerr, New Paltz, New York.

 

CONTACT ZONES. Understanding art in processes of territorial research

Alejandro Meitin, La Plata, Argentina.

 

Sensing Social Space

Bo Zheng, Hong Kong.

 

Becoming Zoya

Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya), Jon Platt and Sonya Akimova

Chto Delat School of Engaged Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

Freedom. Safety. Now!

Jaishri Abichandani, New York City.

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Essay

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Why Socially Engaged Art Can’t Be Taught

Jen Delos Reyes, Chicago, Illinois.

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Lesson Plans IV: Collective Learning and Urban Imaginaries

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Poetry Workshop.

Joseph Cuillier, New York City.

 

Ask the tarot. From personal belief to collective reflection

Alpha Elena Escobedo, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

 

Social Practice and Community Engagement Seminar – Trust Exercises

Justin Langlois, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Experience as Art: Fine Art Social Practice at Middlesex University

Loraine Leeson and Alberto Duman, London UK.

 

Writing the Social: a participatory workshop

Gretchen Coombs, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Up Against the Wall: Public Art, Precarity, and Witness

Occupied Palestine 2003–2011

Susan R. Greene, Palestine and San Francisco, California.

 

Framing Neighborhood Decisions

Dillon de Give, New York City.

 

Lesson Plan for Public Faculty No. 11: Imagining a Curriculum for Sunset Park

Jeanne van Heeswijk and Gabriela Rendón, The Netherlands.

 

Embracing Ambiguity: Re-appropriation and the Making of Public Spaces

Brian Rosa, New York City.

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SPQ seminars and Art As Social Action Projects

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Transforming Corona Plaza/ Corona Studio

A seminar developed by Queens Museum, Queens College Art/SPQ, and the Urban Studies Departments with instructors Professor Tarry Hum, Maureen Connor, Gregory Sholette, and Queens Museum staff members Prerana Reddy, and José Serrano-McClain, SPQ, New York City.

 

Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land

Floor Grootenhuis and Erin Turner, SPQ, Oak Flat, Arizona and New York City.

 

The Beacon of Pluralism

Nancy Bruno and Gina Minielli, SPQ, New York City.

 

Towards a Workers Pavilion: The Forming of the Workers Art Coalition

Barrie Cline, SPQ, New York City.

 

Participatory decision-making in diverse groups

Sol Aramendi

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Concluding Essay

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Dewey, Beuys, Cage and the Vulnerable, yet Utterly Unremarkable Heresy of Teaching Socially Engaged Art (SEAE)

Gregory Sholette, New York City.

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