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Art Practical is an SF based media org developing trustworthy and accessible critical art discourse for the West Coast.

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Art Practical is the leading publication for the wide-ranging Bay Area visual arts culture, combining international perspectives with a long local history of incubating experimentation and innovation.

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Dread Scotts speaks about his work and the possibilities for revolution with Duncan MacKenzie for Bad at Sports.

“I wondered if this is the moment that we will come together or if it will require more seismic social change.“ 

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Dread Scott. The Blue Wall of Violence, 1998; installation view, Dread Scott: Welcome to America, 2008. Courtesy of the Artist and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY.

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Dread Scotts speaks about his work and the possibilities for revolution with Duncan MacKenzie for Bad at Sports.

“...it was significant that they felt so threatened by this work of art that they included specific wording to outlaw it. That tells you something about how fundamentally weak this country is.“

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Living Condition both tells and re-images the experiences of those who have, or have had, family members on death row. What began as a series of short animated portraits has flowered into a feature-length film and an interactive component.

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We are encountering an artist who lived life passionately and completely as part of her artistic practice.

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Art Practical is the leading publication for the wide-ranging Bay Area visual arts culture, combining international perspectives with a long local history of incubating experimentation and innovation.

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Art Practical Holiday Listening

A gift from Art Practical to you, our dedicated reader. We've compiled some of our favorite podcasts from this year to accompany you while you travel, or stay cozy indoors. Happy Holidays!

what are you looking at? Ep 2: Let is scroll, let it scroll let it scroll

(un)making Ep 23: Taraneh Hemami

Decolonizing Culture: Anuradha Vikram and Vivian Sming in Conversation

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Art Practical Holiday Reading

A gift from Art Practical to you, our dedicated reader. We've compiled some of our favorite essays from this year to accompany you while you travel, or stay cozy indoors. Happy Holidays!

Features #Hashtags: The Big Lie by Anuradha Vikram

Whose "Again”? by Genevieve Quick

Don’t Look the Other Way by Elia Rita

Interviews Interview with C. Davida Ingram by Sarah Margolis-Pineo 

Interview with Ellie Dicola by Emily Pothast 

Interview with Aria Dean by Nat Marcus

Reviews Nando Alvarez-Perez: Portentology by Forrest McGarvey

stutter by Hyunjee Nicole Kim

Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive by Shahrzade Ehya

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I am not so concerned with the boundaries of social practice as an art form, but rather the way it impacts and flows into many forms of art and cultural production.

“Even before Ted passed away, I had already begun to think about how we would communicate with him after he was gone. Because he was oriented in dialogue and by gift economies, it seems clear that the exchanges he began will somehow continue to circulate and to be generative.” -Ranu Mukherjee

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With this issue, we are looking for overlaps and disconnects with politically engaged object-making practices, social practice and its pedagogy, and public-facing and audience-engaging practices.

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Particularly damning is what today’s repeal will mean for marginalized groups, like communities of color, that rely on platforms like the internet to communicate, because traditional outlets do not consider their issues or concerns, worthy of any coverage. It was through social media that the world first heard about Ferguson, Missouri because legacy news outlets did not consider it important until the hashtag started trending.

Mignon Clyburn, FCC Commissioner for Net Neutrality 

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(1) BOOK: Decolonizing Culture an anthology of seventeen essays writing by Anuradha Vikram that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces. published by Art Practical + Sming Sming Books. October 2017, English, 5 x 8 in, 154 pages, b/w, softcover. (1) POSTER: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action newsprint poster reproduction of Gene Sharp’s 1973 list, 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action and a companion essay, Gene Sharp: A Global Educator by Jørgen Johansen on the back. designed and reproduced by Volumes Volumes. newsprint poster, 22.5 x 30 in.

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Reposted from brilliant artist @omarmismar “The Jerusalem Wikipedia page cannot be edited, unlike other pages on a website that prides itself "in allowing anyone to edit its articles.” The page is protected against “vandalism.” Well, fuck you. That lock icon on the editing pen is the wall in digital form, occupation gone viral.“ - Omar Mismar // So telling of where we are in the world…

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This is just the start of a lengthy project. The overall work is titled “Experiments in Radical Biotechnological Feminism” #xRBF // Please feel free to provide constructive criticism. // The game was created using Twine . . Want to play? Visit @mouseandmotherboard . . 🔗 in 👨🏽‍🎤