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

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Colored People Time: SCRAAATCH Performance

In conjunction with Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents, the Institute of Contemporary Art presents a sound and performance art piece by SCRAAATCH.

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Grants & Grantees

Designing Motherhood: A Century of Making (and Unmaking) Babies

Designs that have defined the material culture and experience of maternity over the last 100 years are surveyed in a multi-site exhibition, catalogue, and series of public programs.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985 Exhibition

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents an exhibition surveying a generation of pioneering female artists and relating their work to the technology innovators who helped shape the information age.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Screening of Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, Accompanied by Live Organ

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On the Horizon: 2019 Center-Funded Projects Reimagine Performance Spaces, Illuminate Community Voices, Reinterpret History

The organizations supported by the Center have a wide range of ambitious projects planned for 2019. The sampling below showcases their upcoming performances, exhibitions, and public programs around the region.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Erin Bernard

Erin Bernard is a curator, community artist, public historian, and the creator of the Philadelphia Public History Truck.

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Love Letter

Quite possibly the largest single-artist mural project in the United States, Steve Powers' Love Letter comprises 50 painted walls running parallel to the elevated train line in West Philadelphia.

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Please Touch Museum

The first museum in the nation focused on families with children ages seven and younger, Please Touch Museum enriches the lives of children by creating learning opportunities through play.

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The Barnes Foundation: Diversities in the Arts of the African Diaspora

Artist, teacher, and writer Odili Donald Odita studies and discusses the breadth and depth of contemporary art of the African diaspora.

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Questions of Practice

Inside Bowerbird: Q&A with Founder and Director Dustin Hurt

Dustin Hurt, founder and director of Bowerbird on his Center-supported project Sound Machines: Zwei Mann Orchester.

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La Région Centrale Screening

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a series of live programs featuring Caribbean, African American, and Jewish music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nina Simon

Nina Simon is executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in California and author of The Participatory Museum.

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Two Center-Funded Publications from Fabric Workshop Document Work of Ann Hamilton, Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio

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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary at Booklyn Art Gallery

A selection of collaborative works on paper and textile created by participants of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project is on view at Booklyn Art Gallery.

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Now Available: New Center-Funded Publications from Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Michener Art Museum

Two recently completed Center-supported projects have released extensive publications documenting visual art exhibitions and a community engagement initiative.

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On Tour: Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements

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Collaborators & Colleagues

David Young

Executive director of Cliveden of the National Trust, a National Historic Landmark located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

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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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Questions of Practice

Just Say It or Think It and It Is So

Artist Barkley L. Hendricks suggested that whether or not an artist is deemed contemporary is really about who is doing the talking.

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Yael Bartana: Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies!

Beyond the walls of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a new site-specific public performance conceived by Yael Bartana brings together funerary tradition, military ritual, and personal testimony to challenge systems of violence and displacement.

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