This is about another way of seeing and understanding art, something that looks like a social practice art.
Social Practice art isn't just a subject. It's something that looks like something else.
Social Practice looks like imagining art as a community affair, not just an individual expression. Social Practice looks like a way to reimagine everything I thought I knew about art because there's always another way to think and create art.
Social Practice looks like an opportunity to become an accidental educator. Sharing knowledge, and inspiring others—it's all part of the artistic journey. It's not just about classes; it's about making Portland my artistic home and community for a while.
In essence, Social Practice looks like an integration of art and life.
PDX Hour Show:A Social Practice Community TV Show
Can something that looks like a TV show transform into a platform for social practice?
The PDX Hour: A Social Practice Community TV Show reimagines the traditional TV set as a space for community engagement, collaboration, and celebration.
This component of the living sculpture is a hybrid of performance, art, and media that invites the diverse communities of Portland to share their stories, creativity, and perspectives. Designed to look and feel like a television studio, the space not only serves as a production site but also as a gathering place where participants and audiences come together to explore themes of identity, culture, and shared experiences.
ARCHIVE
OF LONELINESS
How does loneliness look?
"The Archive of Loneliness" as an international social practice project is an endeavor that aims to engage people in a collective exploration of loneliness while promoting empathy, connection, and resilience between communities and individuals. At its core, this archive works as an international platform for people to share their visions about lived experiences of solitude, isolation, and emotional detachment. As a visual archive through various forms of expression like video, photography, and documentary, participants contribute to an ever-growing repository of visual narratives about the diverse dimensions of loneliness. The project encourages active participation and dialogue, inviting individuals to reflect on their own experiences and aesthetics of loneliness, as well as to listen and empathize with the visions of others.serves as a platform for indivusals to share their personal visions, visual reflections y personal aestetics
Short Film with Martin Luther King Jr. School Students
Welcome to Portland, OR!
A short documentary in collaboration with elementary school students Northeast Portland as part of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) project. The 14-minute documentary film is an alternative travel guide to Portland that features the children answering a series of questions about how they explore their city. The objective of the film is to showcase how these children perceive the city and for the audience to understand Portland from their perspectives. The film includes footage of the places they suggest—such as ice cream spots, favorite parks, and places to go when you feel sad—and blends their conversations with my own personal trips to explore their recommendations. The film was screened for the students, their families, and the wider community in spring 2023.
Museum of Alternative Art History
Another way to share the Art History
A community-centered initiative that reimagines how we document and engage with art and cultural narratives. Unlike traditional museums, where experts and curators determine what constitutes art and culture, this project empowers individuals to shape the story of human creativity by highlighting what is personally meaningful to them.
Participants are invited to create their own "museum cards," which act as entries into the museum's alternative collection. These cards allow individuals to deposit their unique expressions of art, creativity, or culture — from personal artifacts, family stories, or everyday objects that hold deep significance — into the evolving museum archive.
Rather than centering on renowned artists or canonical works, this project focuses on what inspires, moves, and connects people. The collective contributions become a living, dynamic representation of cultural expression, weaving together diverse narratives to tell an inclusive story of art history grounded in human connection and shared experiences.
The museum not only challenges conventional notions of authority in art but also celebrates the creative agency of every individual, emphasizing the beauty found in the ordinary and personal.
Welcome to our show
Lights, camera, action!
This publication is a book-format collection of global conversations originally featured in The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal. The interviews, conducted between 2022 and 2025, explore diverse topics such as ethics in art, cultural shock, friendship, and loneliness. The dialogues were led by Manfred Parrales and internationally recognized artist and Community TV personality Manfred Punky, offering rich insights into the experiences and perspectives of international artists, humans beings life from Portland, OR.
