Living As Form – Socialy engaged art from the last twenty years (NYC)

Living as Form is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.

It provides a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists’ projects in a large-scale survey exhibition inside the historic Essex Street Market building, features nine new commissions in the surrounding neighborhood, and provides a dynamic online archive of over 350 socially engaged projects.

Living as Form will culminate with a book that will highlight projects from the exhibition archive, as well as commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists in the field, including Carol Becker, Claire Bishop, Teddy Cruz, Brian Holmes, Maria Lind, and Shannon Jackson.

Exhibition
The Living as Form archival exhibition is a vast collection of documentation of 100 socially engaged projects from the last twenty years and from locations around the globe:
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/exhibition.htm

Offsite projects
Living as Form will present four « living » commissioned artist projects located throughout the Lower East Side. Artists Bik Van der Pol, Carolina Caycedo, SUPERFLEX , and Time/Bank (Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle) have each produced a project embodying some of the key tenets of socially engaged art, which will run throughout the exhibition.

Schedule of events
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/schedule.htm

From September 24 to October 16, 2011
Thursday–Sunday, 12–8 PM
The historic Essex Street Market
80 Essex Street – New York City.
http://creativetime.org