The Situational Drive

Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement

New York City, May 12-13, 2007

Free Weekend Conference

May 12 and 13, 2007

May 12, 10am – 7pm

May 13, 10:45am – 6:15pm

Cooper Union, The Great Hall

7th Street, btw 3rd and 4th Ave, NYC

Organized by Joshua Decter

A partnership between
inSite/ San Diego-Tijuana and Creative Time, New York
in collaboration with
The Cooper Union School of Art

In the network society everyone puts together their own city. Naturally
this touches on the essence of the concept of public domain…Public domain
experiences occur at the boundary between friction and freedom.
— Maarten Hajer and Arnold Reijndorp, In Search of New Public Domain

inSite/ San Diego-Tijuana and Creative Time, New York are pleased to
present The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, a
two-day multidisciplinary sequence of panel discussions, conversations,
and art projects rethinking the challenges of artistic, curatorial,
architectural and theoretical engagement in urban and other public
spheres.What is at stake today in terms of public domain experiences? How do we
know the impact of cultural projects upon the imaginations of citizens? Do
we believe in the possibility of transforming publics? What is the nature
of our situational drive?

Participants: Dennis Adams, Doug Aitken, Doug Ashford, Judith Barry, Ute
Meta Bauer, Mark Beasley, Bulbo, Teddy Cruz, CUP (Center for Urban
Pedagogy), Tom Eccles, Peter Eleey, Hamish Fulton, Gelitin, Joseph Grima,
Maarten Hajer, David Harvey, Mary Jane Jacob, Nina Katchadourian, Vasif
Kortun, Laura Kurgan, Rick Lowe, Markus Miessen, France Morin, Antoni
Muntadas, Kyong Park, Anne Pasternak, Vong Phaophanit, Michael Rakowitz,
Paul Ramirez Jonas, Osvaldo Sanchez, Saskia Sassen, Allan Sekula,
Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Michael Sorkin, Javier
Tellez, Nato Thompson, Anthony Vidler, Anton Vidokle, Judi Werthein,
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Mans Wrange.

For a full program of events: here or
here.
Tickets are Free! No reservation necessary.

The Situational Drive is made possible, in part, by Artography: Arts in a
Changing America, a grant and documentation program of Leveraging
Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Additional support provided by haudenschildGarage and the Ronald and
Lucille Neeley Foundation; media support by The Village Voice.

In conjunction with The Situational Drive, inSite is pleased to launch
Dynamic Equilibrium: In Pursuit of Public Terrain, the third in a series
of books documenting inSite_05. Dynamic Equilibrium includes essays and
dialogues drawn from the inSite_05 Conversations, which took place in San
Diego and Tijuana from November 2003 through November 2005. For more
information, or to place an order, please visit here.