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Repair Shop/Sunday Soups

Chris Kennedy wrote this post at 12:36 pm on October 7th, 2009.

(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)

Last month, InCUBATE/Material Exchange/Adam Bobbette unveiled Repair Shop/Sunday Soups, a project for Conversation Pieces an exhibition at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY – currently on view until December 19th. The project invited the public to rent a space in the gallery or purchase a bowl of soup that contributed to artist grants voted on by those who contributed to the funds. Amazing!

Conversation Pieces is an exhibition that brings together projects by artists who stage, subvert, provoke, intervene in or document public dialogues. These projects have multiple, often interrelated objectives: claiming public space, time and attention to start specific conversations around specific issues; questioning the current states, definitions, and limits of dialogue in the public realm; and presenting alternative possibilities for or re-imaginings of the public through various models of participation in (variously public) dialogues.

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