PUBLIC CULTURE LECTURE SERIES
The Public Culture Lecture Series, co-organized by Randall Szott and InCUBATE, seeks to highlight examinations and enactments of public culture. Rather than following a preformed idea of what public culture actually is, the lecture series treats it as an open question and invites attendees to explore the question with us. A variety of people and practices will be drawn on to present the ways that the notion of “the public” emerges in their work and/or informs it. This project took place at InCUBATE and then at threewalls throughout 2009-2011.

The first Public Culture Lecture, “The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century United States,” was given in May 2009 by Angela Ray, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Other presenters have included Claire Pentecost’s lecture on “Optimism and Everyday Life,” and tours by Robert Gardner of Maxwell Street Market and Hui-min Tsen of the Chicago’s underground pedway system.

The Public Culture Lecture series grew out of InCUBATE and Randall Szott’s event series, “In Search of the Mundane”at threewalls in October/November 2009. Its premise was to be a living exhibition: a series of public events that open up the space of the gallery to living and doing, calling attention to the wide spectrum of people interested in the beauty and political potential of the ‘everyday.’
The PCLS Series is ongoing at threewalls in Chicago, .

Past Presenters include:
Angela Ray’s “The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century United States”
Claire Pentecost’s lecture on “Optimism and Everyday Life”
Ryan Griffis lecture on Temporary Travel Office
Megan Stielstra on “Storytelling as an Everyday Art”
Robert Gardner’s tour of Maxwell Street Market
Hui-min Tsen’s tour of the Chicago’s underground pedway system 
A tour with Public Collectors of Anthony Elm’s artist and exhibition ephemera 
Mark Bazer’s live interview show with artists Tony Tassett, Kelly Kaczynski, and Bad at Sports’ Duncan Mackenzie and Richard Holland
Dr. Ben Reitman’s walking tour of Chicago’s hobohemia
Penelope Bingham, Who Cooks? American Cookbooks and Changes in Gender Roles
Chad Elias, How to Do Things With Words in Public Space
Sara Daleiden, Los Angeles Urban Rangers
Ericka Nelson, The Worlds Largest Collection of the Worlds Smallest Versions of the Worlds Largest Things
Katie Hargrave

ARTIST RUN CREDIT LEAGUE

The Artist Run Credit League was derived from the tanda, a form of rotating credit association and monetary practice formed by a core of participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given in whole or in part to each contributor in rotation. One of the most essential elements to any form of rotating credit is a mutual trust amongst all contributing members and a shared faith in the value of the community itself.

More info on the ARCL, including the founding memorandum of understanding, can be found at artistruncreditleague.com. We also wrote an article on our research in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue #7. We are still very interested in developing this project further, but the project is currently on hiatus. If you’re interested in working on this with us, wherever you are located, get in touch!

 

Поміж

InCUBATEr Roman Petruniak is currently in Kyiv on a Fulbright scholarship to research the various infrastructures, systems, and strategies used to support contemporary artistic production in Ukraine. Read about his project on his blog, http://www.pomij.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

InCUBATE TV

InCUBATE TV is a source of documentation for our ongoing projects. As part of our aim to make InCUBATE a transparent and generative organization, we are creating an accessible public archive that traces our developments, conversations and activities. Part of this process is conducting informal discussions with artists, curators, organizers, and collectives with the hope to create open structures for the participants to engage in critical reflection as well as make connections between different artistic and social practices.  Videos are here: http://www.vimeo.com/incubate