"Community" is a frequent stated theme of a U.C. Santa Cruz conference, May 14-17, 2008, titled "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice." According to the conference announcement, "Interventionist practices use interruptions to question norms by using humor, surprise, and unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world. Such practices work within societal structures to re-examine set ideas, subvert norms, map hidden systems and allow us to see and think in new ways." Themes include: --"Interruption of Hierarchies: the academy and the gallery" (How do the academy and the gallery impact interventionist art practices?);
--"Art and Life, Life and Art: creating community" (An examination of the role of art in creating community); and
--"Subversive Complicity: community, protest and resistance" (Exploring the artist’s role as critic in global capitalism and local politics).

Events include panel discussions, performance art, interventionist actions, creative lunches, a Wikipedia, a publication and interventionist exhibitions at Sesnon Gallery, UCSC; the LAB, San Francisco; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose. Considering that participants include performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Linda Montano and Annie Sprinkle, and one of the premises is that intervention/interruption is community-building -- well, it's almost irresistible.

Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice

   

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