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Immersive Life Practices

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Immersive Life Practices talks to Chicago-based artists and authors about life as an art practice and art as a life practice. The contributors explore a range of concerns, from how to be holistic, ethical, or practical; to how to balance life and work; to formal questions of how to represent a never-ending project.

Editor Daniel Tucker
Publisher School of the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN 978-0982879849
Reference P2710
Date 2014
Type Publication

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