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

Questions of Practice

The Paradox of Dancing in a Museum

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, philosopher Marie Bardet reflects on the presumed “paradoxical” idea of dancing in a museum.

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Fall Visual Arts Preview: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Lanterns on the Parkway, the Monsters and Science of Frankenstein & Dracula, New Monuments for Philadelphia, and More

The Philadelphia region’s fall arts calendar includes a range of exciting exhibitions—from projects that activate public spaces, to installations that amplify community voices and reinterpret history.

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I is for Institute

An investigation of the idea of "institutionality" in the context of contemporary art will inform future curatorial and programmatic initiatives, in an effort to increase audience engagement with the ICA and its programs.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kaytie Johnson

Kaytie Johnson is the Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator at the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design.

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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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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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Cohabitation Strategies

Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) is a non-profit cooperative for socio-spatial research, design, and development based in New York City, Rotterdam, and Ibiza.

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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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Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Presents "Not My Outside World" with Curator Elizabeth Thomas

A conversation with psychylustro curator Elizabeth Thomas and artist and writer Douglas Ashford, associate professor at Cooper Union and former member of Group Material.

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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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James Voorhies

James Voorhies is the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University where he oversees a contemporary arts program dedicated to the synthesis of art, design, and education.

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Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration

This exhibition, which will be the Eastern State Penitentiary's first to focus on the current state of incarceration in America, will shed light on this critical contemporary subject.

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Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

New York-based artist Demetrius Oliver's Print Center exhibition consisted of live-feed video projections that drew from telescopes aimed at the constellation Canis Major.

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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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Event

Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

The Michener Art Museum presents an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Miranda July

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer whose videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and in two Whitney Biennials.

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The Rosenbach Sheds Light on Literature’s Most Memorable Monsters with Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, opening October 13

The Rosenbach sheds new light on two seminal Gothic works with a dynamic exhibition on view October 13, 2017 through February 11, 2018.

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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents

The history, present, and future of blackness in America is examined in a three-part, multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the work of artists Carolyn Lazard, Cameron Rowland, Sable Elyse Smith, and Martine Syms.

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Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia: Exhibition

The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia presents Spit Spreads Death, an exhibition about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia.

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