Never The Same
Chicago artist and activist Daniel Tucker and Art Historian Rebecca Zorach expand a project entitled Never the Same which, since 2010, has sought to archive and document the history of Chicago’s rich storehouse of politically and socially engaged art practices.
Daniel Tucker
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Rebecca Zorach
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Daniel Tucker
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 (North Adams, MA), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, IL), Park Avenue Armory (New York City, NY), Werkleitz Biennial 6 (Germany), Centro José Guerrero (Spain) as well as streets, protests and rooftops. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics have been presented internationally in journals, magazines, galleries, community centers and universities. 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. He 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 Notes for a People’s Atlas (2011). In addition to his work on the Never The Same oral history and archive project, he is currently at work on a documentary video about the human aspiration for self-sufficiency and a photography series about visual representations of crisis. miscprojects.com
Rebecca Zorach
Rebecca Zorach is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Departments of Romance Languages, and Cinema & Media Studies. Her research and teaching interests include late medieval and Renaissance art, primarily French and Italian; gender studies and critical theory; print culture and technology; new media, tactical media and activism in contemporary art; and contemporary Thai art. Current interests include theories of imagination and the passions in the sixteenth century, and the politics of emotion in contemporary America. Her book Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance was published by University of Chicago Press, December 2005.