Doug Ashford in conversation with Lisa Larson-Walker <title> </head> <body> <div id="corral"> <div> <iframe id="menu" src="/../site/nav.html"> <p>Your browser does not support iframes. I'm sorry. This is where the navigation menu should go.</p> </iframe> </div> <div id="content"> <p class="intro"> <i>Doug Ashford in conversation with Lisa Larson-Walker</i>, 2008<br><br> Doug Ashford is an artist and teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art, in New York. He is also a member of Group Material, an artists' collective that for thirty years has created work questioning a variety of social themes and activist causes. On Saturday, October 25, Ashford presented Group Material's "Democracy" (1988), a yearlong art project exploring the conflicts and failures within American democracy, as part of the symposium "Disruptions: The political art in now" at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. The following is an edited excerpt from the enclosed conversation with Lisa Larson-Walker, artist and student at the Cooper Union School of Art, published on October 20, 2008 in Newcity Chicago. </p> <img id="bg1" alt="expand" style="cursor:crosshair" src="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-01s.jpg" pbsrc="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-01.jpg" onclick="Pop(this,50);"> <img id="bg3" alt="expand" style="cursor:crosshair" src="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-04s.jpg" pbsrc="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-04.jpg" onclick="Pop(this,50);"><br> <img id="bg4" alt="expand" style="cursor:crosshair" src="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-02s.jpg" pbsrc="../../img/2008/ashford/ashford-02.jpg" onclick="Pop(this,50);"><br> </div> </div> </body> </html>