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. A complete event program can be found
on line at http://may2008.artintervention.org/.

Conference outline University of California, Santa Cruz:
• May 14: Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) pre-conference Seminar 5-7pm
• May 15: Interruption of Hierarchies: the academy and the gallery
How do galleries and academic institutions accommodate interventionist art's demands on audiences?
Panelists: Josh Greene, Shannon Jackson, Larry Rinder, Nato Thompson and more
Creative lunch and afternoon interventions and performances
Keynote address: Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison 6:00 pm University Center
The Show Starts On the Sidewalk screenings begin, and continue nightly
• May 16: Art and Life, Life and Art: creating community
How do interventionists address the everyday as art?
Panelists: Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Linda Montano, Judith
Rodenbeck, Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Creative lunch with writer Terri Cohn and Laura Parker, afternoon interventions and performances,
Inflatable museum and Sesnon Gallery opening
• May 17: Subversive Complicity: community, protest and resistance
How do artists subvert and influence systems to explore political, public and private concerns?
Panelists: Laurel Beckman, EG Crichton, Sharon Daniel, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Bradley McCallum,
Jacqueline Tarry, The Yes Men
Creative lunch with theorist Dore Bowen & the SJSU Archival Lounge
Closing Event: Green Wedding by the Love Art Lab’s Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens

Exhibitions and public events hosted by:
Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UCSC, April 16 - May 17: Interruption of Hierarchies exhibition
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon/
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, March 28- May 17: Art and Life exhibition: This Show
Needs You http://www.sjica.org/
The LAB, San Francisco, May 1 - May 24: Subversive Complicity exhibition
http://www.thelab.org/
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History: Atrium installation by Robin Lasser & Adrienne Pao
http://www.santacruzmah.org/
The Show Starts at the Sidewalk: Nightly screenings in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco
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