L.A. Convention Center

…for the Otis College of Art & Design’s Graduate Public Practice convention occupation program called Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art at the College Art Association 100th Annual Conference housed in the very very dreadful Los Angeles Convention Center, a hostile  environment that could pretty much suck the humanity out of even the most earnest gesture – but there we were gathered in an intimate circle of 15 chairs on a bright red carpet in the corner – having a thoughtful talk with the students about engaged expansive social public practicy kinds of art, organized by Chair Suzanne Lacy with curator Sally Tallant, and artists Pablo Helguera and Sara Daleiden,  joined by writer Linda Weintraub.