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Home-Room #7:
This time the HOME-GROWN event focuses directly on the relations between art and active participation through different mediums, ideological positions and manifestations.
We share our private space for a “SALON” where pro-active minds share how they PARTICIPATE in making a difference.

We invited Elisa Shzu, an activist for Chinese labor conditions; Patrick Meagher, a sculptor, and Sarina Basta, a curator of the Sculptur Center for a discussion about the interplay of Art and Activism.

Elisa Shzu is an activist supporting better working conditions for chinese labor, she organized manifestations. She got into activism in the late 90’s with ethnic and gender issues and affirmative action. Today she is further involved in multiple alternative local movements like the Park Slope Food CooP, Reclaim the Streets, Billionaires for Bush.

Patrick Meagher is a conceptual artist who is concerned with visual and environmental dynamics of architecture, technology an economics. With his critical position he addresses the shifts in media with the wide spread of the internet, and the shifts in perception of iconic vocabulary. Website

Sarina Basta is currently curator at the Sculptor Center in Long Island City. She has curated the recent “Degrees of Remove, Landscapes and Affect” exhibition and organizes the public program. Previously she was manager and designer at the Acconci Studio and has published in different art magazines.