Inset developed a forum for a variety of extended art practices that engage with existing frameworks and structures (institutional, social, cultural, etc). The exhibition presented several projects that were generated through public solicitation, often using publishing as a means of dissemination or distribution. Inset generated works that involved the audience, the city, the gallery, and the community.
Atopia Projects is interested in the ongoing generative possibilities of the exhibition: in particular the theoretical, ethical, and conceptual questions and problems, such as the viability of art as an instrument of social change, or even the rational/justification for undertaking/considering such interventionalist actions as 'art'.
Project realized in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.
January 17–March 14 2004
