Creative Time
Who Cares / Multiple Artists
- artist Multiple Artists
- program Who Cares
- location Manhattan
- year 2005
- program summary
- back
- Multiple Artists
- Who Cares
- Manhattan
- 2005
Dinner participants: Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Gregg Bordowitz, Tania Bruguera, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Dean Daderko, Peter Eleey, Coco Fusco, Chitra Ganesh, Deborah Grant, Hans Haacke, K8 Hardy, Sharon Hayes, Emily Jacir, Ronak Kapadia, Byron Kim, Steve Kurtz, Julian LaVerdiere, Lucy Lippard, Marlene McCarty, John Menick, Helen Molesworth, Anne Pasternak, Heather Peterson, Paul Pfeiffer, Patricia C. Phillips, Michael Rakowitz, Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Martha Rosler, Ralph Rugoff, Amy Sillman, Allison Smith, Kiki Smith, David Levi Strauss, Nato Thompson, The Yes Men
Interested in why the organization was not seeing more art related to social action, nor receiving many proposals from artists to explore such issues, Creative Time invited thirty-seven artists, curators, and scholars to gather for a dinner series. Over the three intimate dinners that comprised Who Cares, participants discussed the viability of counter-cultural practice within the visual arts. The dinner conversations focused on the ways in which art functions as a public practice—from the globalization of creative economies and the dominance of restrictive notions of beauty to contemporary American war culture—and offered provocative and insightful analysis from a myriad of disparate perspectives. The conversations of Who Cares were recorded and reproduced as a book distributed by D.A.P. in October 2006. Photograph by Charlie Samuels
Interested in why the organization was not seeing more art related to social action, nor receiving many proposals from artists to explore such issues, Creative Time invited thirty-seven artists, curators, and scholars to gather for a dinner series. Over the three intimate dinners that comprised Who Cares, participants discussed the viability of counter-cultural practice within the visual arts. The dinner conversations focused on the ways in which art functions as a public practice—from the globalization of creative economies and the dominance of restrictive notions of beauty to contemporary American war culture—and offered provocative and insightful analysis from a myriad of disparate perspectives. The conversations of Who Cares were recorded and reproduced as a book distributed by D.A.P. in October 2006. Photograph by Charlie Samuels