Chicago based zine Lumpen (www.lumpen.com), and sister zine: Select (www.select-media.com), discuss politics, art, and the meaning of both in relation to change. Lumpen also organizes the Version Festival an experimental arts project in Chicago. www.versionfest.org
www.temporaryservices.org: Chicago based collective that examines various meanings of experience through art. The group also forms part of Mess Hall an "experimental cultural center" in Roger's Park.
www.artic.edu/~apalme/index.html: Laurie Palmer, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at SAIC, raises issues of history and public space at DuSable Park in Chicago in her project 3 Acres on the Lake.
www.repohistory.org: A New York based collective that re-defined historical aspects of the city through various projects.
www.abcnorio.org: Since 1980, this gallery-cum-activist hub in New York City integrates community organizing and art activism.
www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org: An on-line journal that critically fuses protest and aesthetics for the reader. Topics include global perspectives on democracy, art and collectivity, and counter-cultural movements world-wide.
www.actuporalhistory.org:
An oral history project about Act Up New York. The group combined protest and
art to address the issues of the AIDS epidemic and the way the government ignores
it. Gran
Fury, a gay art collective who was showcased at the Venice Biennial, first
met at ACT/UP.
www.n55.dk: A Danish artist collaborative that works with social issues of space.
www.sindominio.net/fiambrera/web-agencias/: Las Agencias is a "network of autonomous groups working ont he construction of biopolitical antagonism." The group's various project's include "newKidsontheBlackBlock" which discusses identity within capitalistic production. And "Pret-a-Revolter" activist couture for protesting when police are tyrants.
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