Eric Steen

Guest Speaker on Heritage Radio Network

2012-01-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

November 2011 /
I was invited to be a guest speaker on the Beer Sessions Radio program of Heritage Radio Network. I spoke about the upcoming Performa project as well as the Glasgow Pub School. I was honored to be a guest alongside Joshua Bernstein.

Check out the radio program here, scroll down for my segment.

Performa Brew Pub

2011-12-12T17:26:00.000-08:00

2011 /
Created for the HUB space at the Performa 11 Biennial and curated by Esa Nickle. A two-night exhibition in the form of a pop-up pub that celebrated the work of approximately twenty-five New York City homebrewers. The brewer's were commissioned to create beer specifically for the bar, and a resulting thirty-three beers were made. The brewers ranged in experience, from the seasoned veterans to those who have only made a few batches. Special glassware was made for the all-you-can-drink event, along with a twelve page catalog that had detailed information about each beer and brewer. Each brewer was present and available for conversation. All beer was displayed in pitchers on the shelf with the menu projected above it. People ordered at the bar and volunteer bartenders poured drinks all night. Kegs and bottles were also displayed on the floor and along the bar.

Mary Izett, an officer in the New York Homebrewers Guild and beer writer, said this was 'The best bar in New York City.'

Collective Brew Day

2011-12-12T16:52:00.000-08:00

2011 /

Organized for the Performa 11 Biennial, Collective Brew Day looked at the sculptural and social aspects of brewing beer in New York City. Eight local homebrewers came together with their equipment and brewed beer in the same spot while Performa attendees passed by. Visitors could participate in the brewing, ask questions, and even drink special beers that were made by each of the brewers. Each brewer, speaking the same brewing vocabulary, brings their own unique equipment, modified for their specific needs, and their own perspectives on how to create a quality brew. The event was an educational precursor to the upcoming Performa Brew Pub, where the work of twenty five local brewers was exhibited and consumed in a two night pop-up pub.

Above Photo Credited to: Elizabeth Proitsis. Courtesy of Performa

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Proitsis. Courtesy of Performa

Beers Made By Walking

2011-11-05T17:40:00.000-07:00

2011 /
Beers Made By Walking is a summer long program where a public group goes on a series of hikes, identifies edible and medicinal plants along the way and make a beer based off what we see on that particular trail.

The project was sponsored by the Galleries of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs. There were a total of seven hikes, open to the public around the Pikes Peak region, eight homebrewers were involved and eight beers were produced. The hikes ranged from easy to strenuous, from two hours to full day hikes, at many different altitudes. The beers were brewed commercially at a local brewery and then sold during one of two tasting sessions at a local beer pubs in Colorado Springs, Brewer's Republic. The beers were served in handmade beetle-kill pine sampling trays along with a twelve page menu. Each beer essentially became a portrait of the hike we were on.

A complete set of photos and information from all the hikes and the tasting sessions, including information about each beer, can be found here. I've included a few photos and a few details below as well.

A few homebrewers drinking together during the first tasting session.

The four homebrewers with their beer signs during the second tasting.

Our hike at Mueller State Park

Here is a list of the hikes, the homebrewer involved, and the beer they made:

Hike #1
Garden of the Gods - Justin Carpenter - Opuntaie Deorum - Prickly Pear Cactus Wheat Beer

Hike #2
Grant Goodwiler - Smoked Piñon Brown - Smoked Brown Ale with Piñon Pine Nuts

Hike #2
Isaac Grindeland - Monk Choker - Double Belgian IPA with Chokecherry

Hike #3
Palmer Park - Jason Miller - Lightning Strike - Ale with Juniper, 3 Leaf Sumac Berries, and Ponderosa Needles

Hike #4
Mueller State Park - Scott Buchholz - Limber Blond Ale - Strawberry, Limber Pine

Hike #5
Old Midland Railroad Grade - Rich Mock - Gruit to It - Wild Sage, Wild hops, Yarrow

Hike #6
Catamount Trail - Tom Brown - Eve's Forbidden Flower - Bee Plant, Tansy Mustard, Rose Hips, Amaranth

Hike #7
North Cheyenne Canyon - Matt Kupferer - Old Man of the Woods Stout - Sarsaparilla, Hazlenuts, Spruce

Presentation for Eat Art, NYC

2011-10-05T00:26:00.000-07:00

November 20th, 2011 / Following the Performa 11 events I will give a presentation on my recent work for Eat Art, a project curated by Tracy Candido and Eleanor Whitney. Here are the details:

Eat Art is a new socially-engaged happening that celebrates ART + FOOD + CONVERSATION. Artist studio tours, food tastings, dinner parties, art happenings and culinary events: EAT ART wants to mix and mingle with you in NYC's art and foodie spotlight.

Come hang out with EAT ART at an event all about beer: drinking, brewing, its history and as art. At Bitter & Esters, a new home brew shop in Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, we'll learn all about beer from Bitter & Esters' co-owner, John LaPolla. Sip on a Heather Ale designed by Eric and learn how to brew some yourself while talking about home beer brewing, beer history, ingredients like hops, yeast and special ingredients like heather, and beer styles. Eric will talk about his preoccupation with art and beer, as well as his current project, "Brew Pub" at the 2011 Performa festival and previous projects such as "Art & Beer" at the Portland Art Museum and "Pub School" at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. 700 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

November 20th, 4:30pm.

Performa 11 - Brew Day and Brew Pub

2011-10-01T00:24:00.000-07:00

November 2011 /
I am pleased to announce that I will be a part of the Performa 11 Biennial. I have two projects:

Nov 12 - Collective Brew Day
I have invited a group of homebrewers to come together with their equipment and all brew beer at the same time in the same place. Brewers will share their creations, talk about how beer is made, and you can participate in the brewing process

Nov 18th and 19th, 6-10pm - Brew Pub
For two nights, Performa will host a pop-up pub that will serve 33 homebrewed beers from 25+ NYC homebrewers. Beers will range greatly in style, color, and taste. $20 gets you a special glass and then enjoy all you can drink.

Information about Performa 11
Performa 11, the fourth edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, will be held in New York City from November 1–21, 2011. The three-week biennial will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 50 arts institutions and over 50 curators, as well as a network of public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 11 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, acting as a vital “think tank” linking minds across the five boroughs and bringing audiences together for brilliant new performances in all disciplines.
Founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, in 2005, followed by Performa 07 (2007), and Performa 09 (2009).

Final Tasting for Beers Made By Walking 2011

2011-10-01T00:19:00.000-07:00

October 29th, 2011 /
The second installment of tastings for Beers Made By Walking. A summer long program in which a public group goes on a local hike. Along the way we identify edible and medicinal plants. A homebrewer takes note and afterword develops a recipe and creates a beer based off of what we see on the hike. The special ingredients are purchased in local shops, online, or harvested with permission on private property. The beer is then made at Pikes Peak Brewing and will be available for tasting one night only at one of our local pubs, Brewer's Republic. The beer essentially becomes a portrait of the local landscape, a celebration of place. They will be served together in handmade serving trays and a 12 page catalog that describes our summer long process.

Beers Made By Walking Tasting #2
Sat. Oct 29th / 4-8pm
Brewer's Republic / Downtown Colorado Springs / 112 N. Nevada
$5 Entry / Unlimited Tastes

Here is a list of beers and the brewers:
- Scott Buchholz - Limber Blond Ale - Strawberry, Limber Pine
- Rich Mock - Gruit to It - Wild Sage, Wild hops, Yarrow
- Tom Brown - Eve's Forbidden Flower - Bee Plant, Tansy Mustard, Rose Hips, Amaranth
- Matt Kupferer - Old Man of the Woods Stout - Sarsaparilla, Hazlenuts, Spruce

More info:
The first tasting event took place late August. This next one will be a lot of fun, but if you need convincing, here are photos from the first event. And here you can also see photos from the various hikes that we've gone on. The project is sponsored by the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art and the beers were made at Pikes Peak Brewing Co.

Beer + Art at Big Feed, M12, in Yuma, CO

2011-09-01T00:16:00.000-07:00

October 15th 2011 /
I will be giving a presentation about Beers Made By Walking and other beer related projects that I've organized as part of a community based art program in Yuma, Colorado. I will be providing some of my Heather Ale for the talk. Additionally, I'll be speaking alongside Ro Guenzel, the head brewer of Left Hand Brewery.

The event is organized by artist collective M12, for their program The Big Feed. M12 organizes research-based and site-specific projects and programs in Denver, Yuma, and other places nearby. The Big Feed is a 2 day event that combines art, local industry, food, and the landscape. There will be presentations, a spit roasted bison, breakfast, music, and all sorts of other festivities.

Michelle Illuminato's Book Reports Exhibition

2011-08-15T07:49:00.000-07:00

September 2011 / I am participating in Michelle Illuminato's Book Reports exhibition from September 6 -25 as part of the 8 Hour Projects Sustaining Practice, Community and Self at the Bowman, Penelec, and Megahan Galleries at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Curated by Colleen Toledano and Darren Lee Miller.

Here is more about the project:
Book Report will consist of two parts, a body (the performed readings) and an appendix (the collected texts). The readings will be performed at a central podium, and the texts will be located on the wall and floor around the podium. The public will act as the readers, either reading their own texts or selecting one from the contributed texts and books in the gallery. During the 8-hour workday, on the hour, invited ‘special readers’ will read a selection from something they consider ‘very special’.

I am contributing the book How to Survive in Your Native Land by James Herndon, a book that I read to my students every semester. The non-fiction book is about one middle-school teacher's journey to understand how schooling stifles the creativity and abilities of the youth he is meant to teach.

Beer Portraits

2011-06-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

2011 /
For a group show with Elysia Contreras and Zach Springer in Kansas City, MO at La Esquina through Urban Culture Project. The show, titled "It's All Yours" celebrated and explored the spectrum of creative interests among neighbors, business owners, and artists that lived around La Esquina gallery. For my portion I worked with Boulevard Brewing, located less than two blocks away. I asked Boulevard Brewing Company to produce a new beer that would serve as a portrait of the neighborhood. Matt Ruzich, one of the brewers, created an overall beer portrait of the neighborhood based on his experiences living there. Additionally, Pancho Luna, a volunteer at the brewery and an avid homebrewer, created two beer-portraits of two specific individuals that lived and served in the neighborhood.

The beers were served during a special event. Visitors chose one of the portraits from the gallery wall, were served the correlating beer, and then drank the beer while reading about the pictured individual.

Beers Made By Walking through the Galleries of Contemporary Art

2011-06-01T00:16:00.000-07:00

Summer 2011 /
Beers Made By Walking is a summer-long event series and beer program where, throughout the summer, there will be seven public hikes led by local homebrewers and a naturalist. On the hike we will identify edible and medicinal plants and those ingredients will be used to make new beers. The first half of beers will be made at Rocky Mountain Brewery, ingredients donated by Winecrafters, the homebrew shop connected to the brewery. The second half will be produced through Pikes Peak Brewing, a new brewery in the area. There are two tasting events throughout the summer - August 27th and Oct 29th. You'll be able to try these beers in sample trays that I've made by hand. My hope is that various people groups will come together, finding commonalities in topics as seemingly diverse as botany, environmentalism, art, and beer making. The beers created will celebrate the changing seasonal Colorado Springs landscape.

The hikes are open to the public. Go to the gallery webpage for more details.

To see documentation of all the hikes and the tasting events, please click here. This project was sponsored by the Galleries of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs. Here is further details:

Tasting Dates

August 27th / 4-8pm
$5 Entry / Brewer's Republic (112 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs)
Beers:
- Opuntiae Deorium Wheat Ale (w/ Prickly Pear Cactus) by Justin Carpenter
- Monk Choker (Belgian IPA with Chokecherry) by Isaac Grindeland
- Smoked Piñon Brown (w/ Piñon Pine nuts) by Grant Grindeland
- Lightning Strike (w/ Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, 3 Leaf Sumac Berries) by Jason Miller

October 29 - 4-8pm
$5 Entry / Brewer's Republic (112 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs)
- Scott Buchholz - with Strawberry and Limber Pine
- Rich Mock - with Wild Hops, Wild Sage, and Yarrow
- Tom Brown - with Bee Plant, Evening Primrose, Tansy Mustard, Amaranth, and Rose Hips
- Matt Kupferer - Old Man of the Woods Stout - with Hazlenuts, Sasparilla, and Spruce

Images:
See our image recaps of hikes and tasting events:
Hike #1
Hike #2
Hike #3 - cancelled due to a lightning storm
Tasting #1
Hike #4
Hike #5
Hike #6
Hike #7
Tasting #2 - On Oct. 29th

Hike and Tasting Dates
June 30 - with Justin Carpenter - Garden of the Gods - 6:00pm
July 16 - with Isaac Grindeland and Grant Goodwiler - Red Rock - 9:00am
July 28 - with Jason Miller - Rock Island Trail - 6:00pm
Aug. 13 with Scott Buccholz - Mueller State Park - 9:30am
Sept. 18 with Rich Mock - Old Midland Railroad Grade - 9:30am
Sept. 24 with Tom Brown - Catamount Trail - 9am
Oct. 7 with Matt Kupferer - N. Cheyenne Canyon - 4pm

It’s All Yours at La Esquina, Urban Culture Project, in Kansas City, MO

2011-05-01T00:07:00.000-07:00

May 2011 / This month I am participating in collaborative exhibition at La Esquina, part of Urban Culture Project, in Kansas City MO with Elysia Contreras and Zach Springer.

It's All Yours is a collaborative, curatorial, and event-based exhibition that will utilize the community and resources within and around la Esquina to explore and celebrate the spectrum of creative interests among neighbors, business owners, and artists alike. It's All Yours will stretch beyond the walls of la Esquina by including both artists and neighbors into the programming of the event-series exhibition, solidifying the contributors and their endeavors as the integral fabric of the neighborhood.

My contribution is titled ‘Beer Portraits.’ I have asked Boulevard Brewing Company, which is located just 1.5 blocks away from the gallery, to produce beer that will serve as a portrait to the neighborhood. Matt Ruzich, one of the brewers, will create one overall beer portrait of the neighborhood based on his experiences living there. Pancho Luna, a volunteer at the brewery and an avid homebrewer will create two beer-portraits of two specific individuals that live and serve in the neighborhood.

Pub Discussion Series at Open Engagement

2011-04-13T00:04:00.000-07:00

May 13th, 2011 /

I will have a contributing project for the Open Engagement Festival in Portland, Oregon. The project is called the Pub Discussion Series and is a collaboration between myself, Tracy Candido, and Chelsea Haines.

Here’s information about Open Engagement:
The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally renowned artists Julie Ault, Fritz Haeg, and Pablo Helguera. The work by these artists’ touch on subjects including democracy, group work, the boundary (or lack there of) between art and life, education, and transdisciplinarity. In addition, Open Engagement will play host to the Bureau for Open Culture, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and a summit on art and education. The summit features students and faculty from MFA programs focusing on public and social art, including OTIS College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the University of California Santa Cruz, and the California College of the Arts.

Peoples and Publics, Social Economies, In Between Places, Tracking and Tracing, and Sentiment and Strategies

Open Engagement is a free conference that will take place May 13-15, 2011, in Portland, Oregon. Contributors are not asked to pay a registration fee and the public will not be charged to attend. Contributors to the event will be supported in the following ways: participants from out of town will be housed in Portland homes. Several meals during the conference will be provided emphasizing slow food and community cooking. A variety of transportation will be provided drawing on Portland’s bike culture and public transportation. Conference activities will be integrated with local businesses, using pubs and cafes as conference hubs.

Instructions For Eating Article Published on 127 Prince

2011-02-13T00:03:00.000-08:00

February 2011 /

I wrote an article titled “Instructions For Eating: Serving Beer in the Gallery” that was published on recently on 127 Prince. Check out the article here.

127 Prince is a new journal named after the location of artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1971 restaurant FOOD. Like FOOD, 127 Prince hopes to function as a site for conversation. The journal will present and examine ideas on the art of social practice, and the social practice of art.

Instructions For Eating is a monthly column from Tracy Candido about food as a medium and eating as a social practice. Invited artists present recipes, preparation instructions, directions for hunting and gathering, lists of ingredients, etc. for public consumption. These experimental essays function as a site of learning and action: readers are encouraged to perform the instructions laid out before them.

Slow Beers - Heather Ale

2011-01-30T06:37:00.000-08:00

2010 / 2011 /
During my research of Scotland breweries and beers I came across a heather ale made by Williams Bros. Brewing. They claim that beer has been made with heather flowers in that part of the world for about 4000 years. In the 18th century however the English imposed laws that forbade the use of ingredients that weren't malted barley and hops, so heather ale disappeared for a while. In the 1980's a Gaelic family found an old recipe, gave it to the Williams Bros. brewery and since then the brewery has explored traditional beers that use ingredients found in the Scottish highlands.

I began making my own heather ale, initially based off the William Bros. recipe but now it changes each time it's made. When asked to give presentations, provide beer as part of a project or festival, I generally will provide the heather ale. Here is an ongoing list of exhibitions, conferences, and events I have contributed to.

Slow Beers is the name I have given my homebrewing operation.

State of Jefferson

2010 /
The Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon had a group exhibition titled "The Mythical State of Jefferson," which is about the growing movement in Northern California and Southern Oregon to become the 51st U.S. state for a number of political reasons. I made 99 bottles of beer that were consumed during the opening. I considered beer the beverage of choice for revolutionary movements, and I thought the history of the heather ale, the resurgence of local-mindedness, provided somewhat of a parallel to what is happening with the Jefferson movement.

Open Engagement 2010

2010 /
I provided four different versions of the Heather Ale to the Group Dinner at Open Engagement. The dinner was prepared by traveling chef Leif Hendertal.

Open Engagement 2011

2011 /
I was invited by Tracy Candido and Chelsea Haines to be a part of their project Pub Discussion Series for Open Engagement 2011. The project consisted of a small pub crawl in which attendees would have the extended opportunity to talk with each other about topics from the conference in an informal way. One stop on the crawl was at Coalition Brewing, whom I have previously worked with. They took one of my heather ale recipes and brewed it on their commercial system. Open Engagement guests could purchase pints of my beer during the Pub Discussion Series.

Big Feed

2011 /
The collective art group M12 invited me to collaborate with them in the near future. I have visited their work site in Yuma, Colorado to get a feel for how they are working. They organize an annual get together called The Big Feed where they invite artists, local business people, and local Yuma community members to give presentations, prepare food, provide music, and mingle. I gave a talk about my beer-related art projects alongside Ro Guenzel, the brewer of Left Hand Brewing. I also provided heather ale for audience members before and during the talk.

Eat Art NYC

2011 /
Tracy Candido and Eleanor Whitney have put together a program that looks at food as art, and explores the relations between the two. They invited me to give a talk about my beer-centered art practice at a New York city homebrew shop, Bitter and Esters. The shop brewed up one of my heather ale recipes in advance, on their pilot system, and we drank it throughout the event. Shop owner, John LaPolla, spoke to guests about how beer is made, and gave a background on the brewing culture of the city. I followed with a presentation about my work, including my very recently finished project for Performa.

Shine A Light 2010 - Portland Art Museum

2010-10-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

October 15th, 2010 /

I have been invited to make Art & Beer again at the Portland Art Museum during the second rendition of Shine A Light.

More information about Shine A Light can be found here.

This year I am working with Coalition Brewing, Hopworks Urban Brewery, and Rock Bottom Brewery to provide new beers inspired by works of art in the museum. More information about Art & Beer can be found here.

Details:
Shine A Light is held at the Portland Art Museum

October 15, 2010

$12

Art & Beer - 6pm till the beer runs out

Featured Article in Culturehall

2010-08-26T23:59:00.000-07:00

August 2010 /

My work was featured in an article called “Social Places,” written by Tracy Candido and Chelsea Haines. The article is about artists working in the social sphere using food and drink. The other artists/groups featured in this article are Elaine Tin Nyo, Future Farmers, and Conflict Kitchen.

Click here to read the full article.

Editorial about the Glasgow project in Brewer’s Contact

2010-07-01T23:58:00.000-07:00

July 2010 /

Calum Cragie, the president of Scottish Craft Brewers wrote an editorial about the Market Gallery Pub and Pub School project in Glasgow. The article was published in Brewer’s Contact, a journal from the Craft Brewing Association in the UK.

Cragie gives details about his experience and speaks to the success of the event, considering how it will influence the way the Scottish Craft Brewers operate.

I have scanned the article. You can download the article here.

Faculty of Art at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

2010-07-01T23:56:00.000-07:00

August 2010 /
I have been invited to teach at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In the Fall I will teach three classes - two of them will be Foundation 2D classes and the third will be a class on Socially Engaged Art and New Media. The Art Department at UCCS asked me to introduce expanded ideas into the Foundations classes, incorporating social practice into the arts curriculum. In the Spring I will teach three more classes. I am happy and excited to move to Colorado for this position.

Lecturing for Jumpstart at Oregon State University

2010-06-26T23:55:00.000-07:00

July 2010 /
Jumpstart is a pre-college visual and performing arts program sponsored by the Department of Art at Oregon State University. The program invites 15-18 year old high school students to participate in an intensive three-week set of classes. In a few days, I am giving a talk about artists who contextualize their work in traditionally non-art venues, as it relates to or inspires my own work.

Pub School / Market Gallery Pub

2010-06-01T09:21:00.000-07:00

2010 /

A six-week socially engaged artwork and field-research project into Glasgow's beer industry and pub culture. The research led to the creation of participatory artworks for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art at The Market Gallery and other public venues.

Included in the programming was the Pub School, an educational event series exploring the aesthetics of beer and brewing in Glasgow, and the Market Gallery Pub, a one night pub that presents Scotland-based homebrewed beers as artworks.

Below is the original schedule of activites:

THE PUB SCHOOL
The Pub School is a weekly educational event-series that explores the aesthetics of beer and brewing in Glasgow. Beer making is an art form that influences our daily routines more than one might initially realize. Drinking beer, as pointed out by conceptual artist Tom Marioni is a social lubricant and I would add that it is also a social glue. The act of drinking a good beer, although a small action, is inherently a form of activism; it is a social act with political side-effects as it helps build community, place, and interest in local business. For the Pub School, the public is invited to consider the blurring of art and beer by taking part in homebrewing demos, beer sampling sessions, lectures, presentations, pub-crawls, and more.

DETAILS
Every Wednesday in April
@Market Gallery
April 7 - All-Grain Brewing Demo - 5pm -9pm
April 14 - Selected Readings About Beer - 7pm
April 21 - Meet the Brewer: Scott Williams - 7pm
April 28 - Brewery Tour - 7pm
April 30 - Market Gallery Pub - 6-10pm

THE MARKET GALLERY PUB
The Market Gallery Pub is an all-senses, one-night, pub that will serve homebrewed beers to the public. Homebrewers all over Scotland have been invited to create beers for this event, where they will be presented as expanded artworks. This event will be part of the programming of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and will serve to bring attention to beer as a site for social and creative artmaking. The Market Gallery Pub is the culmination event for the Pub School, a weekly educational-event series where visitors were asked to consider the aesthetics of beer and brewing and the blurring art and beer.

One beer will be selected to be reproduced for a short 600 bottle production on the system at Williams Bros. Brewing. The selected beer will be sold via mail order and in specialty shops. This beer will also receive free entry into the International Beer Challenge.

DETAILS
When: April 30th, 2010 - 6-10pm
Where: @The Market Gallery (334 Duke St. Glasgow)
Cost: Free (visitors will receive a limited number of drinking tickets)
Pouring: Pours will be approximately 240ml per cup

PARTICIPATING BREWERS
A list of participating homebrewers:
Andrew Billcliffe, Balls to the Wall Brewing, Bennachie Brewery, Buccleuch Brewing, Geoff Traill, Jacob Griffin, Little Lectures Brewing, Mark Brannan, Owen Sheerins, Pub School Beers, Rhys Thomas, Robbie Pickering, Steve McQueen Brewery

Participating Breweries:
Harviestoun Brewery, Williams Bros. Brewing Co.

OTHER
The Market Gallery Pub will be available for installation view May 1-15th.

The Mythical State of Jefferson this May

2010-03-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

May 2010 / I will have work for The Mythical State of Jefferson exhibition at the Schneider Art Museum at Southern Oregon University. The exhibition highlights The State of Jefferson, a Northern California and Southern Oregon secession movement on the rise. The show will consider the politics of this movement and the idea of taking democracy in your own hands.

At opening night I will launch my project, documentation will be on display for the remainder of the exhibition.

Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

Schneider Art Museum

Exhibition dates are May 6 - June 12, 2010

Reception is May 6th, 5-7pm

Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse

2010-02-11T23:51:00.000-08:00

May 2010 /

I will have two projects at the Open Engagement conference in Portland, Oregon. The dates of the conference are May 14-17, 2010. Here is information from the conference website:

Open Engagement is a three-day conference that is an initiative of the Portland State University Art and Social Practice concentration and co-sponsored by Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland Community College. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and Harrell Fletcher and planned in conjunction with the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, this conference features three nationally and internationally renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini and Nils Norman. The conference will showcase work by Temporary Services, InCUBATE, and a new project by Mark Dion created in collaboration with the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration.

The artists involved in Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse, challenge our traditional ideas of what art is and does. These artist’s projects mediate the contemporary frameworks of art as service, as social space, as activism, as interactions, and as relationships, and tackle subject matter ranging from urban planning, alternative pedagogy, play, fiction, sustainability, political conflict and the social role of the artist.

Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? Does socially engaged art have to do civic or public good? Can there be transdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art making that would contribute to issues such as urban planning and sustainability? As both urban planning and contemporary art imagine new worlds, how can art projects be seen as potential models for living?

This conference is an intensive, immersive, around the clock experience. Open Engagement is approached as a social art work in itself. Artists will create housing, food, transportation, exhibitions, partnerships, tours, special events and include of multiple audiences from their own interests and practices, building on the ideas explored throughout the conference.

Market Gallery Residency in Glasgow, Scotland

2010-02-01T23:49:00.000-08:00

April 2010 /

I was selected to be the artist in residence at the Market Gallery for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art in Glasgow, Scotland. While there I will lead an experiential class on beer industry and pub culture in Glasgow. The class and I will create a public venue, in the form of a weekend pub at the Market Gallery for the Glasgow International Festival for Visual Art.

For further information, visit the Glasgow Project Page and/or the blog.

Apexart - The Incidental Person in January

2010-01-06T23:48:00.000-08:00

January 2010 /

I will have work on display at Apexart as part of the The Incidental Person exhibition. Curated by Anthony Hudek, the exhibition will run from Jan. 6 - Feb. 20, 2010.

Below is a section from Anthony’s curatorial statement. To see the whole statement click here:

“It is high time to pay renewed attention to incidentality as an effective approach to pressing societal issues. Away from the rudimentary right/left or liberal/conservative labels that paralyze governments and polarize communities, the incidental attitude is one of self-reflexiveness and acute, humble awareness of the complex networks of local pressures that inform a specific time and place. We like to assign tags to artists who engage with problematics that exceed the confines of the so-called “art world”, such as socially- or politically-engaged, relational, performative, etc. But these qualifiers only serve to quarantine the curious thinker-doer further from society at large, reinforcing the myth of the artist as exempt from participating in the “real world.” The incidental person, by contrast, sees no alternative between “art” and the activities that regulate social coexistence, such as talking, playing, eating, reading, teaching and listening.”