Part of the Practice
What is social practice, and how does it affect the ways we navigate our lives and make change in the world? Join artists, scholars, and collaborators from Social Practice CUNY on Part of the Practice, hosted by Catherine LaSota, as we discuss our individual art practices, our communities, and the role of socially-engaged art in our work for social justice.
Part of the Practice
14: Field Notes and Spaces of Intelligence with Chloe Smolarski
Artist and educator Chloe Smolarski is in conversation with host Catherine LaSota on this episode of Part of the Practice. Chloe, who teaches at New York City College of Technology CUNY and is a Faculty Fellow at Social Practice CUNY, discusses her use of field notes as a format in her practice, her interests in big tech and climate change, and the conversations that she enjoys in her classrooms. She also gives us the question, "How does social practice change art?"
FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 14 available here.
About our guest:
Chloe Smolarski is an interdisciplinary research based artist, media maker, and educator. Smolarski is a current Social Practice CUNY faculty fellow. Selected projects include: research-based interactive art installation When Home Leaves You: Archiving Living Memories of Climate Change, currently at the James Gallery, Graduate Center and previously exhibited at the Swale House on Governors Island; Community Response / La Comunidad Responde, a participatory media lab addressing the lived experiences of multilingual youth by training them to be oral historians of COVID-19; oral history publication chronicling the German migration solidarity movement: Fluid Identities and Navigating Integration: The Politics of Solidarity in Contemporary Germany; and the documentary Admissions: Student Stories from Undocumented America.
More about Chloe Smolarski:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chloe-smolarski
Instagram: @elevatorbingo
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Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Gaius LaSota for our Part of the Practice music.
Part of the Practice logo courtesy of Maliyah Mohamed.
Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.