Wooden Leg, as a convergence in education, research, and print, serves as a platform to discuss aesthetic practices concerned with the pedagogical, political, and discursive elements of artistic engagement which often utilize the seemingly anarchic, chaotic, messy, non-hierarchical, and horizontal as in-roads towards the creation of culture.

Wooden Leg is an area of quasi-institutional research, a series of classes conducted inside and outside of academic environments, a disparate and aethetisized archive culled, re-constructed, and composed through existing information created by artists, critics, and the public-at-large, as well as a series of discrete distillations of the above into recognizable publications, which for lack of a more appropriate title we will call "books."

Wooden Leg is concerned with how seemingly disparate activities - in and out of the art world - form a shared aesthetics through their commitment to open dialogue, continued questioning, and an ever-evolving belief in collective knowledge creation and through that activity the creation of A Public.
Research

Through a continuing series of classes and workshops developed by Wooden Leg and its contributing editors, as well as through collective inquiry into our area of concern by more traditional means of research and reportage, a system of investigation and archiving begins to take shape.

This research, in the form of pre-existing texts, documents, interviews, and other media, is culled together to create an ever shifting and expanding archive of the ideas and initiatives central to the interests of Wooden Leg.

 Files

Through a process of distillation, utilizing our available archive, Wooden Leg creates a continuing series of files in collaboration with Publication Studio, of Portland, Oregon. These files, existing nominally as publications, more aptly can be seen as sessions, notes, a laboratory-in-print, or test pressing. They are a means of considering the research at hand, juxtaposing it with itself to create new areas of consideration. Wooden Leg Files make themselves objects to provoke further thought and dialogue among artists, critics, and interested publics.

 Publications

When deemed appropriate Wooden Leg Files are further distilled and re-contextualized into "legitamate" publications; books bought and sold in shops and online.

With these titles our desire is not the resting of our case on particular subjects of research but the creation of yet another vehicle for dissemination and provokation. In turn Wooden Leg Books promote the cyclical process which delivers us back to the stage of dialogue and investigation of artistic practices whose desires aim toward criticallity and cooperation.

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