Daniel Tucker

See you Thursday Baltimore!

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Ten years ago the exhibit “Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements” opened at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.

See more at organizeyourown.wordpress.com

The week!

Looking forward to this book release, and hoping you will join us at The Library Company of Philadelphia on December 3! details and rsvp here (everyone who comes gets a free book) support.librarycompany.org/event/beyond...

I’m really excited for next week’s lecture by Jackson Polys from New Red Order. I’ve been lucky to see their installations at Counterpublic and Creative Time and know there is a lot to learn from their approach. Hoping some folks can join us!

Thanks to Bailey Gamberg and Monica O. Montgomery for the invite to facilitate.

If you haven’t had a chance to see the beautiful Jerrell Gibbs exhibit at the Brandywine Museum of Art - consider coming out and joining me on Sunday for a chat about the exhibit curated by Angela N Carroll. www.brandywine.org/museum/event...

Over the weekend the latest in the One Question Exhibition series I’m organizing for @kadistkadist.bsky.social was released. Subscribe at this link for future iterations kadist.org/program/one-...

Join @palomacg.bsky.social and I for the next two programs at Swarthmore College with Adela Goldbard on 10/20 and José Ortiz-Pagán on 10/27. Thanks to the Lang Center’s engaged humanities fellowship for their support.

@jamesbridle.bsky.social

The early proposal deadline is November 10, 2025. Read more about the theme and submit your proposal at artsinsociety.com

The conference will take place on 10-12 June 10-12 2026 and is framed around the theme "Modeling Life Systems: Art, Algorithms, Ecologies" with plenary speakers James Bridle, Georgia Kotretsos, and Jo Raphael.

I am very excited to be back from parental leave and chairing the Twenty-First International Conference on the Arts in Society at the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece.

After a break for most of the summer I’m excited to share the latest in the One Question Exhibition series for KADIST.

This week’s question author is Fereshteh Toosi (Miami).

See the archive and subscribe for future email newsletters of this project at kadist.org/program/one-...

20 years ago on Labor Day 2025 the first issue of AREA Chicago was released over a picnic brunch at Ping Tom Park in Chinatown (Pictured here). All the past issues are now at areachicagoarchive.wordpress.com/and some other random photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/areac...

ESSSSSS #13 Potluck and Timber Tour Save the Date for Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series #13:On Sunday July 20th, 2025 4pm Tour and 5pm Dinner at Manayunk Timber/Umbria Arts 5100 Umbria Street Philadelphia, PA, 19128…

Join us next week for a timber tour and potluck as part of the Eco Socisl Series! ecosocialseries.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/e...

I finally got this new book in the mail which I’m proud to be a contributor to: Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices Edited By Izabel Galliera, Noni Brynjolson (Routledge, 2025)

Details at www.routledge.com/Pedagogical-...

A week ago today we gathered.

The Curating Engagement Retreat was presented by Public Trust with support from Wagner Foundation.

Look for the book we are making to be released in late ‘25 or early ‘26.

Last week @kadistkadist.bsky.social released the 2nd in the series One Question Exhibition that I’m organizing and this one features a new exhibit titled By Jemma Desai kadist.org/program/one-...

Spring Newsletter What a year it’s been! Chaos has been reigning in Washington distracting us while the world burns and floods. It is truly disorienting and those of us in the arts and academia are deciding be…

Sharing a new newsletter miscprojects.com/2025/05/19/s...

Save the Date for Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series #12:
How to Make Art on a Bioregional Scale with Cynthia Hooper, Sarah Kavage, and Rosten Woo

On Wednesday June 11th, 2025 from 6pm-730pm 
at Ulises 1525 N American St, Studio 104

RSVP www.eventbrite.com/e/essssss-12...

Many thanks to my collaborator on the residency application Walter Biggins from Penn press, to Deborah Thomas and Alissa Jordan at the Center for experimental ethnography and to the staff, funder and board of the Sachs Program for their support.

I can’t wait to share more about this project in the future, and I am hopeful that it will serve to lift up the voices of many incredible Philadelphia artists and cultural workers, and that it will help to fill in some gaps around local art history.

The project that I will be developing through a residency with University of Pennsylvania Press will assemble a number of group interview interviews with Philadelphia arts elders.

Builders, Shapers & Independents: A Residency With Daniel Tucker - The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation The University of Pennsylvania Press will host a residency by artist Daniel Tucker, to develop a series of roundtable interviews focused on artists and arts administrators in Philadelphia ages sixty a...

Last week grants were announced from the Sachs program or arts innovation and I’m very honored and lucky to be among the incredible list of recipients.

Details here sachsarts.org/grant-awards...

I’m so excited to share a new project I’ve been developing for KADIST called One Question Exhibition where a curator or artist writes a question that links out to materials online.

Sign up to get each contributor’s exhibit in your inbox, starting with Ozge Ersoy!

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YouTube video by Daniel Tucker Local Control: 2018 Documentary About Karl Hess

Feeling the wrath of anarcho-capitalists?

The total chaos of the last few months has led me to reflect a lot on Karl Hess, who is arguably one of the first people to identify as an anarcho-capitalist. Here is my video essay Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas.

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The review was written for a special issue edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie, which focuses on unrealized and temporary memorials (full contents out this month) and thus focuses on the ephemeral aspects of these two projects.

(fig. 2) Wendy Red Star, The Soil You See…, 2023. Glass and granite rock. Curated by Dr. Paul Farber and Dr. Salamishah Tillet for Beyond Granite: Pulling Together. Photo Credit: Steve Weinik (Courtesy of Monument Lab)

(fig. 1) Black Quantum Futurism, SLOWER-THAN-LIGHT SHRINE: IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, 2023. Multi-media outdoor sculpture. Curated by James McAnally for Counterpublic 2023. Photo by Christopher Bauer.