Social Strategies: Practice, Reflection, Archive

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:05:57 -0500

How can we collect, preserve, and learn from art practices that aren't primarily "objects"—projects that live in relationships, events, conversations, care work, and civic collaboration? This panel will open with a brief introduction to social practice as a contemporary art form and consider why archives, memory, and data are central when the work is ephemeral, community-based, or resistant to being "captured." In a moderated discussion, participants will consider what counts as evidence, who gets to tell the story, what gets kept or lost, and how physical archives and digital collections might support community accountability—not just institutional storage. This program corresponds with "Social Strategies," a collaborative research project organized by CADVC, and is hosted and co-sponsored by the AOK Library gallery.

The public event is supported by the Orser Center for the Public Humanities and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County.

Discussants: Chloë Bass, Jen de los Reyes, Pablo Helguera, Abigail Satinsky, Daniel Tucker, Dan S. Wang.

Introduced by Rebecca Uchill and Stephanie Smith. Moderated by Beth Saunders.

More information about the event and the discussants can be found here.