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

Grants & Grantees

Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie

With the city as its subject, this gallery exhibition, along with newly commissioned installations in unexpected Philadelphia locations, and citizen-created photos and videos, will capture urban life in novel ways.

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Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie

The Barnes presents a multi-part project that captures city life through a gallery exhibition, newly commissioned public installations and performances, and citizen-created photos and videos.

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Asian Arts Pearl Street Call for Micro-Project Proposals

Asian Arts Initiative invites submissions of micro-project proposals, designed to help further transform the Pearl Street alleyway in Philadelphia's Chinatown North neighborhood.

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Design With Nature Now

Three parallel exhibitions highlight dynamic and visionary approaches to landscape design and development in the face of climate change and urbanization.

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University of the Arts

Established in 1876, the University of the Arts is one of the nation's only universities dedicated solely to educating students in the visual and performing arts and design.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Jeanne van Heeswijk on why we must “let go of this unholy marriage between authorship and autonomy.”

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Pablo de Ocampo

Pablo de Ocampo is a Vancouver-based film and exhibitions curator at Western Front, one of Canada’s leading artist-run centers for contemporary art and new music.

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Neighborhood Voices Night at Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary invites community members to attend Neighborhood Voices Night and record messages for the incarcerated student filmmakers.

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The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

South African photographer Zanele Muholi creates a mobile exhibition space and engages with 10 Philadelphia women in telling their own stories through self-portraits and portraits of women in the participants’ lives.

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What To See This Fall: The Women’s Mobile Museum Takes Photography Exhibition to Philadelphia Neighborhoods, First US Commission of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Website Documents Cabaret History, and More

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Sarah Sze Catalog Launch and Conversation with Hal Foster and Carlos Basualdo

Sze, artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, will speak about her work in conversation with Hal Foster and Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Carlos Basualdo, followed by a Q&A session.

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Art in Process

A discovery project investigates best practices in sharing the process of art-making to create meaningful connections between contemporary art and audiences.

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Advancement Grant: Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania

New approaches to exhibition design, public programming, and communications enrich visitors’ understanding of human history through the museum’s collection of more than one million objects.

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Artist Residency with Sarah Sze

The Fabric Workshop and Museum received support a two-year artist residency with Sarah Sze—a MacArthur Fellowship recipient known for her dazzlingly intricate, site-specific installations.

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(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence

Six temporary public artworks across Philadelphia, created by a multidisciplinary group of Asian American artists, reflect on the city’s diverse narratives and changing neighborhoods.

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Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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As Far As My Fingertips Take Me from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge

Boston-based guest curator Lucia Sanroman has invited Cohabitation Strategies, an innovative European urban design and performance group, to work with Mural Arts on a community-driven project.

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Projects On Tour: Pati Hill Exhibition, Thaddeus Phillips, Silvana Cardell Bring Work to New Venues

Following successful premieres in the Philadelphia region, several Center-supported performances and exhibitions are traveling to venues around the world.

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