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- Bill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and... moreBill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and a Masters in Art History from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (UNM). His current research focuses on collaborative and collective art practices in the Americas. Bill has written for such journals as Afterall, P.E.A.R., and Log Journal. He served as co-curator of the 2011 Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11) and was the former Director and Co-Editor of the online bilingual journal LatinArt.com. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino art history at California State University Bakersfield. Bill has co-edited an anthology with Grant Kester of collaborative art practices in the Americas entitled: Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010 (Duke University Press, 2018). He is Curator, Editor and Lead Researcher of "Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the Americas" for Otis College of Art as part of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
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Talking to Action is the first publication to bring together scholarship, critical essays and documentation of collaborative community-based art making by researchers and artists from across the American hemisphere. This volume is a... more
Talking to Action is the first publication to bring together scholarship, critical essays and documentation of collaborative community-based art making by researchers and artists from across the American hemisphere. This volume is a compendium of texts, analysis, and research documents from the Talking to Action research and exhibition platforms as part for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
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Bill Kelley, Jr speaks to Postcommodity about how their use of duration, sound and collaboration refracts the representation of indigenous identity. [Afterall Journal, Issues 39 (2015): 24-27]
In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and... more
In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and artistic production. Whether addressing human rights in Colombia, the politics of urban spaces in Brazil, the violent legacy of military dictatorships in the region, or art’s intersection with public policy, health, and the environment, the contributors outline the region’s long-standing tradition of challenging ideas about art and the social sphere through experimentation. Introducing English-language readers to some of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary art in Latin America, Collective Situations documents new possibilities for artistic practice, collaboration, and creativity in ways that have the capacity to foster vibrant forms of democratic citizenship. Contributors Gavin Adams, Mariola V. Alvarez, Gustavo Buntinx, Maria Fernanda Cartagena, David Gutierrez Castaneda, Fabian Cereijido, Paloma Checa-Gismero, Kency Cornejo, Raquel de Anda, Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Longoni, Rodrigo Marti, Elize Mazadiego, Annie Mendoza, Alberto Muenala, Prerana Reddy, Maria Reyes Franco, Pilar Riano-Alcala, Juan Carlos Rodriguez
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FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism is pleased to announce the launch of issue #15, “Learning Art and Resistance from the South”. This issue was guest edited by Eva Marxen of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.... more
FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism is pleased to announce the
launch of issue #15, “Learning Art and Resistance from the South”. This issue
was guest edited by Eva Marxen of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It
consists of a series of essays, interviews and other documents generated in
response to the exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the
Americas. The exhibition, curated by Bill Kelley, Jr., was featured at the SAIC
Sullivan Galleries in 2018. As part of the exhibition the Sullivan Galleries
organized a number of public programs and events, from which the following
material was drawn. This issue of FIELD, like the exhibition which was its
catalyst, understands artistic practice and political praxis as interdependent and
mutually enriching. It locates an important nexus for these concerns in a range of
new artistic and cultural projects developed in Latin America over the past
decade. One of the primary focal points for the essays included here is the
ongoing struggle against neo-liberal capitalism. If we want to develop a deeper
understanding of the corrosive nature of neo-liberalism, and the forms of
resistance necessary to challenge it, we have much to learn from the Latin
American experience. One of the most important lessons it can offer us concerns
the generative nature of resistance itself. For the artists and collectives presented
in this issue of FIELD political resistance is not simply utilitarian, but rather,
constitutes a form of creative production that is capable of generating its own
unique forms of insight, and of re-shaping consciousness, and subjectivity, itself.
What emerges from these practices is not merely the epiphenomenal expression
of a naïve and spontaneous “actionism” but rather, a coherent pedagogical and
critical methodology from which new paradigms of both resistance and creation
can emerge. This issue of FIELD features bi-lingual translations in Spanish and
English. Contributors include Almudena Caso and Hannah Barco, David
Gutiérrez and Paulina E. Varas, Dignicraft and Ionit Behar, the Iconoclasistas
collective, Sandra de la Loza, Eduardo Molinari and Josh Rios, Red
Conceptualismos del Sur, Guillermo Rivera-Aguilera and Luis Jiménez, Mirliana
Ramírez-Pereira and Eva Marxen. FIELD is available on-line at: http://fieldjournal.
com/.
launch of issue #15, “Learning Art and Resistance from the South”. This issue
was guest edited by Eva Marxen of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It
consists of a series of essays, interviews and other documents generated in
response to the exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the
Americas. The exhibition, curated by Bill Kelley, Jr., was featured at the SAIC
Sullivan Galleries in 2018. As part of the exhibition the Sullivan Galleries
organized a number of public programs and events, from which the following
material was drawn. This issue of FIELD, like the exhibition which was its
catalyst, understands artistic practice and political praxis as interdependent and
mutually enriching. It locates an important nexus for these concerns in a range of
new artistic and cultural projects developed in Latin America over the past
decade. One of the primary focal points for the essays included here is the
ongoing struggle against neo-liberal capitalism. If we want to develop a deeper
understanding of the corrosive nature of neo-liberalism, and the forms of
resistance necessary to challenge it, we have much to learn from the Latin
American experience. One of the most important lessons it can offer us concerns
the generative nature of resistance itself. For the artists and collectives presented
in this issue of FIELD political resistance is not simply utilitarian, but rather,
constitutes a form of creative production that is capable of generating its own
unique forms of insight, and of re-shaping consciousness, and subjectivity, itself.
What emerges from these practices is not merely the epiphenomenal expression
of a naïve and spontaneous “actionism” but rather, a coherent pedagogical and
critical methodology from which new paradigms of both resistance and creation
can emerge. This issue of FIELD features bi-lingual translations in Spanish and
English. Contributors include Almudena Caso and Hannah Barco, David
Gutiérrez and Paulina E. Varas, Dignicraft and Ionit Behar, the Iconoclasistas
collective, Sandra de la Loza, Eduardo Molinari and Josh Rios, Red
Conceptualismos del Sur, Guillermo Rivera-Aguilera and Luis Jiménez, Mirliana
Ramírez-Pereira and Eva Marxen. FIELD is available on-line at: http://fieldjournal.
com/.
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Here's some information on the new anthology I co-edited with Bill Kelley, Jr. for Duke. If you're interested in getting a copy there's a 30% off coupon code.
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This is the introduction to the new book that I co-edited with Bill Kelley Jr. It focuses on new forms of activist and socially engaged art in Latin America during the Pink Tide period. Out from Duke University Press this fall.