Curatorial Conversations

Each week, the 20 Questions curators invite guests and studio staff into a conversation centered on the themes for their respective weekends. All events are FREE and OPEN to the public.

9/28 | Ayako Maruyama & Judith Leemann: Scenography & Witness — 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

More information soon!

As a studio seeking to prototype and disseminate creative approaches to social change, we are often met with critiques around practicality. This is an epistemological and strategic conundrum. will question the thought architectures alive within and across institutions that keep binary logics of poetic and practical, sense and nonsense intact.

In DS4SI’s Aesthetic Justice Manifesto, we declare that we all have the “right to be moved” through aesthetic experiences. Tiago Gualberto will bring his insights and shared questions about the enclosing of contemporary art to formal spaces and how the techniques of multiple approaches to aesthetics in and of place can be brought to bear in public.

Much of DS4SI’s work is about both understanding the everyday as a political project and finding collective agency to reimagine the everyday. Many of our social interventions invite participants into rehearsing and performing otherwise. Grisha Coleman will bring their own artistic and political vision to why a critique and reimagining of the everyday is needed.

Much of DS4SI’s work has been about trying to sharpen how social interventionists interested in arcing towards social change might better design their social interventions. With Nato Thompson, this theme will engage seasoned interventionists in asking the question “How might social practice continue to sharpen its practice towards social change?”

The Hub Hours
Join us each weekend at Hibernian Hall from September 27 – October 19 for events as part of . The Hub is free and open to the public during the following hours:

• Thursdays & Fridays: 2–8 PM
• Saturdays: 12–10 PM
• Sundays: 12–6 PM

Come explore, intervene, rehearse, witness, experience something new!

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