Randall Szott
Randall Szott lives in Barnard, VT. He holds an MFA in art critical practices from The Ohio State University, an MA in Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University, and a BA in Liberal Arts with a philosophy minor from the University of Central Florida. He is known mostly in the field of Social practice.
Szott has lectured or presented at SFMOMA, basekamp, Skydive, California College of the Arts, and the Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange among others. He organized, along with Stephen Wright, the online conference "Cutting Slack: paradoxes of slackerdom." Szott was an invited participant to a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Space, Place, and the Humanities and was an invited guest of the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study workshop, "Four Publics: Learning in Socially-Engaged, Public Participatory and Civic Art."
He was a founding editor of 127 Prince, ran He Said She Said, and co-organized the Public Culture Lecture Series at threewalls in Chicago, IL.
Szott mostly eschews formal descriptions of his activities and has written anonymously for the blogs Lebenskünstler, LeisureArts and placekraft. His work has been cited hundreds of times on blogs, in interviews, etc.
His writing for placekraft was cited as defining the contemporary sense of neogeography,. He wrote an introduction for the book Revelry and Risk and his writing and conversations have been published extensively as op-eds, books, and online.
Szott is a former merchant mariner and chef. He is now a public librarian in Weston, VT and a candidate for the Vermont House of Representatives.
