Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art a Social Practice May 15, 2008

A boat made of flotsam floated out to sea? A stretch limo art bar! A Rant Recorder, an experimental
Green Wedding, an inflatable outdoor museum, art and films on the streets! It must be the Intervene!
Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice festival hosted by UC Santa Cruz.
Breaking the boundaries of conventional arts practice, the interventions festival takes art performance,
websites, objects and events out of the gallery and into other social and public spaces to explore politics
and everyday life. For the month of May 2008, artists will create work up and down the coast from San
Francisco to San Jose to Santa Cruz, convening at UC Santa Cruz for the first West Coast interventions
conference. The Yes Men, Nato Thompson, Suzanne Lacy, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Helen and Newton Mayer
Harrison, Linda Montano, Marilyn Arsem, Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Bradley McCallum and
Jacqueline Tarry, Amy Franceschini, Neighborhood Public Radio and many more artists, critics, and theorists
explore what it means to make and consider art as performance and social practice.
The month long series of exhibitions and a three-day conference focuses on three topics: interrupting
hierarchies, art and life, and subversive complicity. Art events will take place throughout the month of May
on UCSC’s campus, in and out of gallery spaces, on street corners, beaches, and projected onto the side of
buildings. Events will be held at UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery (featuring work by Martha Rosler and others),
the LAB San Francisco, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Outdoor performances will be hosted in collaboration with the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, the KFC
collective, the Santa Cruz Film Festival and more.

Official Website: http://may2008.artintervention.org/