Exhibit on art that engages society
The summer group exhibition at Brooklyn artspace Smack Mellon is called “Condensations of the Social.” It features artistic projects that engage social practice:
artistic projects that refer to the strands of the social that contribute to the formation of culture: pedagogy, ritual/performance, political and ideological engagement, work, and ecology and sustainability as they relate to place. The exhibition raises questions about the boundaries between art and life, while suggesting that social practice, to a greater degree than traditional art forms, has the potential to directly change how we live.
Included are projects by Pablo Helguera, Mary Mattingly, Mladen Miljanovic, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., and Department of Sanitation Artist-in-Residence Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose 1978-1980 project Touch Sanitation is pictured above. Work has been selected for the exhibit to link current social practice to earlier, ground-breaking work and to examine its complexities and implications. The show opened June 19th and runs through August 1st.
