What changed about your understanding of community-based arts after reviewing this genealogy? What questions emerged for you? What new connections became clear?
Something that has changed my understanding about community-based arts after digesting this genealogy is just how vast and ever expanding the history of community based arts is and makes me curious about its future. How will it’s older history and forms continue to inform and inspire new waves to come?
One question that emerged for me was what sparked artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles interest in “Maintenance Art” and what about performing these rituals publicly did for her? How did they feed or inform her practice?
Some new connections which became clearer was the information on site specific work. I had always thought that site specific work was a tool within performance which engages directly with the terrain. However I learned that, “the works did not implicitly engage the nature of the “place” in which they were sited and its’ cultural and community connections, but, rather, they seemed to focus on formal and/or functional aspects of the project and the site.”
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