{"id":9179,"date":"2018-06-06T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:42:54","slug":"bonnie-ora-sherk-talks-living-library-open-engagement-2018-queens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/art-landscape-architecture-systemic-design\/bonnie-ora-sherk-talks-living-library-open-engagement-2018-queens-museum","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Ora Sherk Talks About A Living Library at Open Engagement 2018 at The Queens Museum, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Open Engagement Conference 2018<\/em> at Queens Museum<\/strong><\/sup><\/p>\n

At\u00a0Open Engagement (OE) 2018<\/strong><\/a> – an annual, itinerant, artist-led conference in its tenth year, Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/strong> was invited as one of the five panelists at the session\u00a0 \u201cThe Power of Time : Social Practice Eco Artists of a Certain Age<\/i><\/b>\u201d, on May 13, 2018 at Queens Museum, New York. The 90-minute panel was led by Linda Weintraub<\/a><\/strong>, curator, artist and author of several popular books about contemporary art. This year, the\u00a0Conference\u00a0<\/em>was themed around Sustainability,<\/em>\u00a0emphasizing the field of socially engaged art,\u00a0<\/em>and featured distinguished artist Mel Chin and writer, curator Lucy Lippard among others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the session The Power of Time<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/i>Bonnie Ora talked about her early work\u00a0Crossroads Community (The Farm)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>as well as her ongoing eco-art project\u00a0A Living Library<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. <\/em>The presentations were followed by a discussion among the panelists comparing the past and present state of social practice art, and its various aspects including thematic focus, financial support, public interface, professional recognition, and opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bonnie Ora<\/strong> with Mel Chin<\/strong>, an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist, at Open Engagement 2018 at Queens Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mel Chin<\/strong>\u00a0presenting at Open Engagement 2018 at Queens Museum<\/strong>, New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/b>, seated, along with other panelists,\u00a0with\u00a0Wendy Brawer<\/b>\u00a0at podium and\u00a0Lillian Ball<\/b>\u00a0standing, during the session\u00a0The Power of Time\u00a0<\/i>at\u00a0Queens Museum<\/b>, New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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Audience at the session “The Power of Time: Social Practice Eco Artists of a Certain Age” at Queens Museum<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/b>\u00a0with\u00a0Aviva Rahmani<\/b>\u00a0at the podium during the session<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bonnie Ora<\/strong> talking about her early work Crossroads Community (The Farm)<\/strong><\/em> during her presentation at the session<\/p><\/div>\n

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Funcshuional Art<\/strong><\/em>, a term coined by Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/strong>, defines her past and present ecological art works<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bonnie Ora\u00a0Sherk<\/b>\u00a0during her presentation at\u00a0The Power of Time<\/i>\u00a0at the Queens Museum<\/strong> in NYC on May 13, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open Engagement Conference 2018 at Queens Museum At\u00a0Open Engagement (OE) 2018 – an annual, itinerant, artist-led conference in its tenth year, Bonnie Ora Sherk was invited as one of the five panelists at the session\u00a0 \u201cThe Power of Time : Social Practice Eco Artists of a Certain Age\u201d, on May 13, 2018 at Queens Museum, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Bonnie Ora Sherk Talks About A Living Library at Open Engagement 2018 at The Queens Museum, New York - A Living Library - Archive Site","description":"Open Engagement Conference 2018 at Queens Museum At\u00a0 Open Engagement (OE) 2018 - an annual, itinerant, artist-led conference in its tenth year, Bonnie Ora Sherk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[23,37,22,33,38,25,61,28,41,35,27,62],"class_list":["post-9179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-l-l-pedagogy","category-art-landscape-architecture-systemic-design","tag-a-living-library","tag-art-and-social-practice","tag-bonnie-ora-sherk","tag-community-revitalization","tag-ecological-art","tag-ecological-design","tag-ecological-transformation","tag-education-for-sustainable-development","tag-landscape-architecture","tag-life-frames","tag-sustainable-development","tag-systemic-ecological-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}