ByProduct is a new book that assembles the commentaries of artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers on cultural projects "embedded" in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors. Situated deeply in such institutions — and incorporating their architecture, language and much else — these projects produce meaning contingent on their host, becoming a "byproduct" of their existence. Whether the works are explicitly polemical, indirectly critical or instrumentalized by the host institutions is up for debate, and evokes old and new questions around political efficacy, and tactical media.
Roundtable participants: L.M. Bogad, performance artist and author of Electoral Guerilla Theatre; Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art and author of Dialogues in Public Art; Michelle Jacques, Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario; Marisa Jahn, artist, editor of Byproduct; Joseph del Pesco, independent curator.
Followed by a book signing with contributors: Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men; Maureen Connor, artist; Kent Hansen, democratic innovation; Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, A Constructed World; Kristin Lucas, artist; Darren O'Donnell, Mammalian Diving Reflex; Felicity Tayler, artist, writer, and information professional.