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This is my full paper given as a lecture at Northumbria University in Newcastle on Wednesday 27th April 2016. It is the beginnings of an attempt to free radical social practice and activist art interventions from the ragwort-like sprouting of institutionalised and depoliciticised "social

T.J. Demos on the big picture.

Succinct and timely phrases are like a knife that cuts through time and can be repurposed by later generations.

I am fascinated by the signs at the Women’s March. Here’s my essay on one topic that always needs constant stalwart attention.

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt by Umberto Eco

In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

In the early 2000s, Elhaik, left to conduct fieldwork among contemporary artists and curators in Mexico City. Prior to attending University, Elhaik — a native of Morocco — had been a curator of Arab film festivals. While immersed in cinema, he found himself intrigued by the overlap between the themes explored by the films he curated and questions that surfaced in various anthropological projects of the 1990s: questions of decolonialization, of the possibilities and pitfalls of a postcolonial identity, of the figure of the migrant, of cultural differences, of alternative modernities, of the possibility of a — non-Western-based — cosmopolitan politics.

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

trevor paglen takes us on a journey of machine seeing and more.

a new site with reflections on ideas in performance, edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola

california based TLS landscape architecture firm is selected as the winner for the lion mountain park competition in the city of suzhou, china.

So honored to be a member of the Lion Mountain Park team as the public art consultant. It’s an amazing design and the site is both historic and inspiring!

#architecture in china

In the past decade or so, an alliance between the state, corporations, private initiatives and art market was consolidated in Mexican cultural production.

My recent interview in Art Africa on the 2014 Public Intimacy exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is perfectly timed to coincide with the now available related publication available through Artbook.com (http://www.artbook.com/9780982678978.html) and other online venues.

"$11? $11! Are you kidding!?" He was the angriest moviegoer I've ever seen, yelling at a box-office clerk after inquiring about a Bay Area screening...

The artist Rirkrit Tiravanija applies his signature social approach to art making to a group exhibition featuring 13 artists at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Potlatch masks in Aleta Bay

by Georgina Kleege

A wonderful essay in conversation with Denis Diderot’s” Letter to the Blind for the Use of Those Who See” (1749).

A must read by Roddey Reid that goes way beyond Trump’s bully tactics into the status of bullying in the workplace and more.

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