Writing by InCUBATE:

“Making-do: a pragmatist approach,” Artist-run Chicago Digest, Copyright threewalls/Green Lantern press, Chicago, IL: forthcoming October 2009 (PDF)

“On Sunday Soup” included in The Library of Radiant Optimism’s Let’s Re-make the World available at http://www.letsremake.info/

A conversation between Adam Bobbette and Ben Schaafsma (unpublished) October 2008 (PDF)

Other Options: ARTISTS RE-INTERPRETING, ALTERING AND CREATING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT AFFECTS THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES (PDF): MA Thesis by Ben Schaafsma

An Art of Policy: The Work of Group Material (PDF): MA Thesis by Abigail Satinsky

Art Workers on the Left: The Art Workers Coalition and the emergence of a New Collectivism: MA Thesis by Roman Petruniak

“(Crisis of) Democracy in America,” co-written by Abigail Satinsky and Robin Hewlett, Proximity Magazine

“InCUBATE Second Year Report,” Everybody’s Got Money Issues AREA Magazine Spring 2009

“Other Options,” Ben Schaafsma, Proximity Magazine

“Other Options: A Closer Look at FOOD,” Ben Schaafsma, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 6

“Introducing InCUBATE,” How We Learn AREA Magazine, September 2007

Writing/Interviews/Press about InCUBATE:

Interview with Sam Gould of Red76 (May 2009)

Bad at Sports podcast, Episode 195 (with Duncan MacKenzie and Randall Szott)

Ceci Moss, “Editorial Feature: InCUBATE,” Rhizome

Beth Capper, “Experimental Economies: Talking with Chicago’s InCUBATE,” Art21 Blog

Corinna Kirsch, “(Crisis of) Democracy in America,” FNews Magazine, Chicago, IL

Nato Thompson, Ed. A Guide to Democracy in America Creative Time Books, New York, NY: September 2008

Bert Stabler, “Death to Law: Progressive Public Art in Chicago” Proximity Magazine, January 2008 (PDF)

Jake Malooley, “The Scene: Sunday Soup” Time Out Chicago / Issue 155: Feb 14–20, 2008

Jason Foumberg, “Soup’s On” Newcity Chicago, December 12, 2007

Resources:

Institute for Applied Aesthetics: Latent Learning Curriculums: Collected Essays, Statements and Excerpts (Statements from Future Farmers, WochenKlausur, Temporary Services, and more, Essays by Harrell Fletcher, Andrea Fraser, and Randall Szott in conversation with Sal Randolph, and more)

Five Questions about Socially Engaged Art in Chicago

Daniel Tucker, (H)art Magazine “Critical Culture in Chicago Part #2: On Groups and Spaces″ [Belgium]

Mess Hall’s Dear Chicago

The Think Tank that has yet to be named put out an incredible series of readers for free distribution:

25 Texts on “Community” in Question: Conversations on art, activism, and community

22 Readings on Artists & Gentrification

23 Readings on Art, Activism & Education

31 Readings on Art, Activism & Participation (in the Month of January)