Speech Acts
Speech Acts
Podcast Description
Speech Acts is the podcast of Pratt Fine Arts' Project Third (P3). Each month, a faculty member sits down with artists, curators, and cultural producers whose work engages deeply with social, political, and community-based issues. These conversations explore practices that defy traditional categories, experiment across disciplines, and respond to the urgent conditions of our time.Speech Acts features original music by Alejandra Tokatlian.About Project Third (P3)Pratt Fine Arts Forum for Research & Community EngagementProject Third (P3) is a Pratt Fine Arts forum for students, visiting artists, academics, and activists whose work is research-based, socially engaged, and politically involved. P3 seeks to promote substantial interdisciplinary collaborations between Pratt’s Fine Arts and other departments, as well as meaningful collaborations with communities outside Pratt Institute. Located at Dekalb Gallery on campus, P3’s multiple programs include artist residencies, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, performances, lectures, and student-led engagements. P3’s mission is to offer Pratt Institute students and their larger communities’ access to visiting artists, academics, activists, and others whose practices are motivated by a desire to instigate social and cultural change.
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The podcast focuses on socially engaged art, political discourse, and community issues, with episodes exploring topics such as interdisciplinary performance, socially engaged artistic practices, and the intersection of art and activism. For example, recent discussions have covered the role of curating in social change and the emotional impact of performance art.
Speech Acts is the podcast of Pratt Fine Arts’ Project Third (P3). Each semester, a faculty member sits down with artists, curators, and cultural producers whose work engages deeply with social, political, and community-based issues. These conversations explore practices that defy traditional categories, experiment across disciplines, and respond to the urgent conditions of our time.
Speech Acts features original music by Alejandra Tokatlian.
About Project Third (P3)
Pratt Fine Arts Forum for Research & Community Engagement
Project Third (P3) is a Pratt Fine Arts forum for students, visiting artists, academics, and activists whose work is research-based, socially engaged, and politically involved. P3 seeks to promote substantial interdisciplinary collaborations between Pratt’s Fine Arts and other departments, as well as meaningful collaborations with communities outside Pratt Institute. Located at Dekalb Gallery on campus, P3’s multiple programs include artist residencies, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, performances, lectures, and student-led engagements. P3’s mission is to offer Pratt Institute students and their larger communities’ access to visiting artists, academics, activists, and others whose practices are motivated by a desire to instigate social and cultural change.
Macon Reed is a New Orleans-based artist working in sculpture, video, painting, and social practice, for projects that bridge participatory approaches with intensive object-making and research. Their work has been shown at venues such as Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), the University of New South Wales Gallery (Sydney), Wattis Center for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), Museum of Art and Design NYC, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans).
Reed studied Physical Theater at Dah International Theatre School (Belgrade), Radio Documentary at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (Maine), and Socially-Engaged Arts at The Kitchen (NYC). They’ve attended residencies and fellowship programs at Royal Academy of Arts (London), Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, Amherst College, Center for Craft (North Carolina), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Reed’s practice creates spaces for collective imagination: opportunities to envision solutions to shared concerns, inspire collective action, and connect dots between seemingly divergent histories and experiences.
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