About
Never The Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community in Chicago & Beyond
The goal of this project is to develop a language for discussing the impact of socially and politically engaged art practices in a way that integrates external effect with internal effect. The project will be launched in October of 2011 with interviews posted online at never-the-same.org. Initial interviews include discussions of the Department of Space and Land Reclamation, Not Enough Space: Art by Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Culture In Action, Ladyfest Midwest, Intrusive Thoughts at the National Veterans Art Museum, Calles y Suenos, Black Arts Guild, and many more events, spaces and communities.
This site will also house a significant amount of archived materials and ephemera collected from Chicago’s social and political art communities.
NTS is organized by Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach. Contact us at neverthesamechicago@gmail.com
Archiving Discussion, November 2010, Experimental Station (Chicago) - Photo by Jerome Grand
About the Organizers:
Daniel Tucker has been making, as well as researching and writing about, social and political art in Chicago for the last 10 years. He co-edited the pamphlet “Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago from 2000-2005″ (published by Learning Site); organized the project “5 Questions About Art in Chicago” in which 35 local artists were interviewed (supported by Creative Time as part of Town Hall Talks); edited AREA Chicago from 2005-2010; and has written about Chicago art in numerous publications including Proximity, Chicago Journal and the Belgian magazine H-Art where he published a 5 part series entitled “Critical Culture in Chicago” (read articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). See miscprojects.com for more information.
Rebecca Zorach teaches art history at the University of Chicago. She is an advisory board member and sometime editor of AREA Chicago and a member of Feel Tank, and is collaborating on projects with the Bronzeville Historical Society and the South Side Community Art Center. She has organized exhibitions at the Smart Museum, DOVA temporary, University of Chicago Library and Gallery 400 and is currently researching and writing on art and politics in Chicago in the 1960s/70s.
Project advisors include Mary Patten, Abigail Satinsky, Theaster Gates and Ryan Lugalia Hollon.
Transcription by Kate Aguirre, Matthew Clark, and Haley Rose Martin. Video editing by Mike Phillips and Haley Rose Martin.
Funding:
This project is funded through a 2010 Propeller Fund grant and the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.
Contact:
Get in touch at neverthesamechicago@gmail.com
June 22nd, 2011 → 8:36 pm
[...] end of the summer and I am having a blast conducting them so far! A bit of info is available here http://never-the-same.org/about/ and the first appearance of the archive will be at the October “Hand In Glove: Alliance for [...]
February 28th, 2012 → 6:54 pm
[...] NTS also received funding from: the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. Learn more about Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach’s involvement in other local arts-related ventures here. [...]