Artist Talk & Lunch: Daniel Tucker

 May 24, 2013, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Rm 152, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago

Chicago artist & activist Daniel Tucker gives a talk entitled "Writing on Walls and Talking in Circles: Recent Art and Archiving."  Open to faculty, staff and graduate students.  RSVP required (lbdanzig@uchicago.edu).  Click here for more information on Daniel's collaborative Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship with Rebecca Zorach.

Daniel Tucker works as an artist, writer and organizer developing documentaries, publications and events inspired by his interest in social movements and the people and places from which they emerge. His work has been exhibited at institutions including Mass MoCA (2004) as well as streets, protests and rooftops. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics have been presented in a wide variety of contexts internationally. As a consultant he has worked for numerous activist and art organizations including the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (2010-11) in Santa Barbara and Creative Time (2008) in New York City and founded the arts, education and activism journal AREA in Chicago which he edited from 2005-2010. He has collaboratively released the short documentary Retooling Dissent (2002), the book Farm Together Now (2010) and edited three extensive catalogs of his projects Trashing the Neoliberal City (2007), Visions for Chicago (2011), and Note’s for a People’s Atlas (2011). He is currently editing the online oral history project and archive Never The Same and working on a documentary about the relationship between the Old Right and the New Left video while completing an MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in May of 2013. miscprojects.com