Plausible Artworlds

5 Jan 2010
18:00:00 - 20:00:00

Basekamp

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Join Basekamp in person (bring a potluck dish) or via Skype (contact name: Basekamp) to examine the emergence of plural artistic environments. In 2009, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative awarded Basekamp a grant to run a weekly event series to examine artists’ experiments with alternative art worlds.

Every Tuesday in 2010
6–8 p.m.

Learn more about Basekamp and Plausible Artworlds >

Read about Philadelphia Exhibition Initiative’s 2009 grant to Basekamp >

Photo: courtesy of Basekamp.

Exhibitions

Event

Artist Talk with Rick Lowe, Emily Chow Bluck, and Aletheia Shin: Consumption: A Project On Pearl Street

Asian Arts Initiative hosts a talk featuring Rick Lowe, Emily Chow Bluck, and Aletheia Shin—the team behind the ongoing Center-funded Consumption: A Project on Pearl Street conceived by Rick Lowe.

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Whitman at 200: Artistic Commissions

University of Pennsylvania Libraries presents four new artistic commissions for Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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Alien She: Riot Grrrl Burlesque Show with the Dead Flowers Burlesque Troupe

As part of its ancillary programming, Vox Populi will host a Riot Grrrl burlesque show with the Dead Flowers Burlesque Troupe.

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Monument Lab

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents Monument Lab, featuring over 20 temporary public artworks.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Cesar Garcia

Cesar Garcia is the founding director and chief curator of the Mistake Room, Los Angeles. A curator, writer and educator, Garcia formerly served as the associate director and senior curator of LAXART.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

The Franklin Institute

Founded in 1824 in honor of America’s first scientist, Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the US, and is the most visited museum in Pennsylvania.

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Grants & Grantees

Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers: Archives-Based Learning

Collaborative research projects introduce Community College of Philadelphia students to rare historical materials, leading to exhibitions that examine the notion of accessibility and representation in archives.

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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) Installation

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a newly commissioned, site-responsive multimedia installation by visual artist and Pew Fellow David Hartt.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Performance of Stoker’s Dracula

The Rosenbach presents a performance of Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Josh Hitchens of Going Dark Theatre.

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Questions of Practice

Inside Please Touch Museum: Q&A with President and CEO Patricia Wellenbach

Patricia Wellenbach, President and CEO of the Please Touch Museum, discusses the Museum’s new exhibition on Muslim culture and how children’s museums are uniquely equipped to foster dialogue between kids and adults on complex subjects.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mel Chin

Mel Chin embraces a broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas.

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Dream Dance: Walking Tour

Lightbox Film Center chief curator Jesse Pires leads a walking tour of Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller.

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Grants & Grantees

Fighting for Democracy Discovery Grant

The National Constitution Center planned a new hybrid performance/exhibition experience in conjunction with Fighting for Democracy, a traveling exhibition about World War II.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin is an artist and poet whose research-driven interdisciplinary works weave together art, writing, science, and life.

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Opening Reception for Mixing Memories – Sharing History Community Exhibition

Cliveden holds an opening reception for Mixing Memories – Sharing History, an exhibition of kitchen objects and recipes collected from members of the community.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Helen Molesworth

Distinguished scholar, writer and curator Helen Molesworth is chief curator of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

African American Museum in Philadelphia

Founded in 1976, the African American Museum in Philadelphia is the first institution funded and built by a major municipality to preserve, interpret, and exhibit the heritage of African Americans.

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Grants & Grantees

The History Truck W.I.C. Work/Shop

Informed by first-person accounts of the Women, Infants, and Children (W.I.C.) nutritional assistance program, this mobile exhibition and series of public programs will explore the lived experience of welfare and expand the Philadelphia Public History Truck's programmatic focus.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Astria Suparak

Astria Suparak is an independent curator and former director and curator of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.

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