What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

6:30 p.m.

In What We Made, Finkelpearl suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about collaborative work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields—including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. Issues discussed in the book include the experience of working in public, working with museums and libraries, opportunities for social change, the lines between education and art, spirituality, collaborative opportunities available with new media, and the elusive criteria for evaluating cooperative art. What We Made is published by Duke University Press.

Participants include:

• Brett Cook, artist
• Wendy Ewald, artist
• Sondra Farganis, Founding Director, Vera List Center of Art and Politics, The New School
• Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art
• Carin Kuoni, Director/Curator, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School
• Pedro Lasch, Assistant Research professor, Visual Art, Duke University
• Ernesto Pujol, artist and Performance Instructor, Parsons The New School for Design
• Nato Thompson, Chief Curator, Creative Time 

Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art and Creative Time. 

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Image: Rick Lowe, residents and visitors gather in the courtyard at Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, 2006. Courtesy the artist.

Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served