GLOSSARY

Artistic documentation

The collecting of your materials in a way that displays your artistic process

"Next to the original physical work itself, good documentation is the best long-term investment you can make in your art practice. It will be the backbone of your art archive, and the primary factor in how your entire practice is viewed long-term. Remember that just because you may have strong work doesn’t mean that it will be perceived that way through your documentation. Bad documentation = bad work." - GYST (2nd link)

Socially engaged art

Socially engaged practice can be associated with activism because it often deals with political issues. Artists who work within this field will often spend much time integrating into the specific community which they wish to help, educate or simply share with.

Socially engaged (SE) artists are driven to seek social change or bring to light social issues using their art practice. They do not typically operate through traditional audience models that separate professional artists and the public or audience. Instead, these practitioners engage members of the public in the creation of artworks and focus on these collaborative processes themselves as a substantial outcome of the arts project of interaction, engagement, and co-creation. SEA assumes that artists can help generate dialogue and engagement around important issues, and that the community should be at the table when solving problems that directly affect them. The emphasis on socially-engaged processes is a defining characteristic of this art practice.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Washing, Tracks, Maintenance Outside (1973)

Oreet Ashery - The World is Flooding (2014)