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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

March 24 - March 24, 2011

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Open Space Thursdays: Shop Talk Stephanie Syjuco, Shadowshop, 2010-2011. Photo by Dominic Santos
Open Space, the SFMOMA blog, and the online journal Art Practical collaborate on a three-part series of conversations considering the survival strategies that artists develop and adopt to gain recognition and financial viability. Utilizing artist Stephanie Syjuco's collaborative project Shadowshop as a jumping-off point, "Shop Talk" will examine the ways artists attempt to re-structure market conditions to support or help further the aesthetic and critical capacities of their work. This first conversation will be a town-hall style forum that hopes to elicit a broad spectrum of positions on the ways artists approach the "production, consumption, and dissemination of their work," and how a general public encounters artist projects that address or reflect larger social questions about economy and autonomy. The second conversation, on April 14, will home in on the most prevailing concerns raised in the first. The third conversation, on May 12, will be a brainstorming session, in which attendees are encouraged to consider possible models for autonomy in these tough economic times. March 24 presenters: Megan Brian is the education and public programs coordinator at SFMOMA, and the project manager for Shadowshop. Christian L. Frock, contributing writer for Art Practical and independent curator. Her alternative enterprise, Invisible Venue, collaborates with artists to present art in unexpected settings. Amanda Hughen is a San Francisco artist who has exhibited her work internationally. She created the collaborative Sweat Equity & Co. for Shadowshop. Moderated by Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA, and Lea Feinstein, artist and writer, Art Practical Please join us! San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Koret Visitor Education Center, 2nd Floor http://blog.sfmoma.org/tag/shop-talk/ http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1343