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

Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay

The work of 22 artists, spanning four generations, was presented in an exhibition that examined clay's appeal and craft.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pieranna Cavalchini

Pieranna Cavalchini is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art, where she has organized over 20 exhibitions.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Transdisciplinary Practice

Curator and artistic director of RAW Material Company Koyo Kouoh discusses the ascendance of transdisciplinary practices.

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Grants & Grantees

Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project

An original theater work sheds new light on the Reconstruction era in the United States, the constitutional legacy of the Civil War, and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Event

PAA: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks

The Philadelphia Art Alliance presents a site-specific installation by Beijing-based artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, exploring themes of family, artistic collaboration, fabrication, and the passage of time.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Barnes Foundation’s Thom Collins on Unpacking the Museum’s Collection Through Performance

Thom Collins on the Barnes Foundation’s efforts to “unpack” the museum’s collection and history through performance.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Camae Ayewa Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Melissa Ho Mounts Exhibition at Smithsonian, Tayarisha Poe Screens Film at Sundance

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sarah Robayo Sheridan

Sarah Robayo Sheridan is a writer and curator whose burgeoning practice and innovative small-space projects have garnered her national attention.

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Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia

An exhibition at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden spotlights an intercultural body of design and architecture from four influential mid-century figures: George Nakashima, Junzo Yoshimura, and Antonin and Noémi Raymond.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Billy Dufala

Billy Dufala is the co-founder of RAIR and a Philadelphia-based artist engaged in a variety of creative disciplines, including sculpture, performance, digital media, and drawing.

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Grants & Grantees

Mixplace Studio

The Slought Foundation developed a research and mentoring initiative that partners West Philadelphia youth with architecture and design students from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is a visual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, race, and popular culture.

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Event

The Barnes Foundation: African Textiles Past and Present

Alisa LaGamma, curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Met, discusses historical and contemporary African textiles and their use in contemporary art.

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Paul Evans: Wharton Esherick Museum and Studio Tour

A tour of the Wharton Esherick Museum and Studio, organized by the James A. Michener Art Museum as part of Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Eungie Joo

Eungie Joo is the director of art and cultural programs at Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, a contemporary art complex.

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Unity at the Initiative Public Exhibitions

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Grants & Grantees

Strange Currencies

Strange Currencies is the first exhibition to articulate a history for the unorthodox, artist-run spaces that emerged in Mexico City in the 1990s.

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