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Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically
Joe Bigley is touring Afghanistan, creating what may be the largest ever social sculpture. This Afghanistan is not the territory that comes to mind, that geopolitical entity bordering China, Pakistan,...
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Invisible-5 Audio Project Looks for Environmental Justice along California’s...
(Jules Rochielle curates the Social Practices Art Network newsfeed, and shares works and artist opportunities with Groundswell.) Invisible-5 (2006) investigates the stories of people and communities...
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Sean Martindale Explores the Politics of Place with Love The Future / Free Ai...
Groundswell was recently invited to contribute an exhibition essay for Sean Martindale’s Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei, a sculptural installation at Whippersnapper Gallery through the end of this...
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Pro-Bono Design Work as a Protective Layer for Capitalism – Scapegoat...
Update: We’ve got copies of Issue 01 of Scapegoat Journal in our store. The current economic crisis has turned attention toward volunteerism – as resources dry up, or are prevented from being...
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Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard
Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance, photo courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center The Israeli interior ministry recently authorized construction to begin on Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance...
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Art from the 99%
Favianna Rodriguez writes at the Just Seeds blog, “The fact that its even acceptable for us to critique capitalism in mainstream conversations and in mainstream media, opens many doors for activists,...
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Who Shall Occupy Make Demands Of?: The Modern Case of the One-Eyed Monster
One of the biggest critiques being made of the Occupy movement is that it has no demands. If, however, we take the standpoint that Occupy functions in an interventionist mode—if we see it as an Occupy...
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Does Corporate Culture Still Suck?
Once upon a time (in the 1980s & ’90s) there was a sticker and a T-shirt that said “Corporate Rock Still Sucks” (also the slogan of SST records). The first time he was on the cover of Rolling Stone...
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Worker Power and Pleasure: Robby Herbst’s New Pyramids for the Capitalist System
Socialist acrobatics channel class dynamics in Robby Herbst’s “New Pyramids for the Capitalist System” at Dumbo Arts Center. On display are two shows, one of his grandfather’s collection of beach and...
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Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection
Among the thoughts of Occuprint designers, Julie Gueraseva writes, a few stand out: “This poster must be of tremendous urgency and relevance; it must agitate and disturb; it must stop you dead in your...
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