Love in a Cementary Questionaire

As part of my program, all incoming Otis students in the Public Practice program participate in a community project at the beginning of the program. This year Andrea Bowers in our instructor and is participating in a residency at 18th street studios in Santa Monica. For her residency she has decided to develop a laboratory or practicum where experimentation with interventions and collaborations between cultural and community organizations take place. This is our 1st year community project. Below is a questionnaire that she and Bob Sain developed.

1. Do cultural organizations have the responsibility to address social issues such as class, ethnicity, gender and politics? Why and how?
2. Can a cultural organization impact the life of the community in a meaningful way? And is so, how?
3. What are the roles for artists within cultural organization? Should artistic programs be determined only be curators and directors?
4. What should cultural institutions look like today and in the future? What might a "new" cultural organization look like?

These questions and ideas are to tie into of project in some way. My answers to these are to follow soon.