Random Acts Of Culture

"The Art Cognoscenti avoid inviting bulls into their china temple. Here is a big bull, filled with research and reason, bellowing with radical creativity."

John Fox, co-founder of Welfare State International

In Bookstores Now

This book is about vernacular culture. Read more about the argument here.

Audio clips, photographs and links for each of the chapters are available here.

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www.clarkemackey.ca
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"Clarke Mackey moves with panache from personal perspective into a bold interdisciplinary account of why art is the way it is in our present-day society, and how it could—and why it should—be otherwise."

Ruth Howard, Artistic Director, Jumblies Theatre, Toronto

"The world is falling apart. In the emergency, we can learn from the past, but we cannot go back in history. It is time to come with new ideas. That is exactly what Clarke Mackey does with great creativity in this book -inviting us to discover the new world within each of us, and to recover the capacity to be surprised by the child and the artist we all carry within our adult, consumerist, alienated selves."

Gustavo Esteva, Zapatista advisor, and
author of Grassroots Post-Modernism