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Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed: Multiple Elementary

Black Dog Publishing, 2018

Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed’s collaborative practice winds through socially engaged art, unruly educational experiences and long-term institutional interruptions. , published and distributed at the moment of Black Dog Publishing’s harrowing implosion, is one of only a few publications dedicated to exploring a single socially engaged project, and a Canadian one at that. Whereas seminal texts by Claire Bishop, Grant Kester or Shannon Jackson tend to explore socially engaged art through encounters with artist projects (either witnessed or by way of archives) alongside larger framing arguments that aim to

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