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

Collaborators & Colleagues

Patricia Wellenbach

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Farm for the City

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza.

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Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor

For its project Enhancing Views of History: Terracotta Warriors and Augmented Reality, The Franklin Institute will enhance the visitor experience of its exhibition with augmented reality (AR) technology.

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Asian Arts Initiative's Pearl Street Clean-up and Community Day

As an extension of its Pearl Street and Social Practice Lab programming, Asian Arts Initiative invites volunteers to work with Chinatown North and Callowhill residents and neighbors, in maintaining cleanliness in the Pearl Street alleyway.

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Grants & Grantees

Katharina Grosse: psychylustro

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program commissioned an impermanent public art project by artist Katharina Grosse: a massive episodic painting along a five-mile stretch of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

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Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition

"What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?" Five temporary public artworks, created by artists including Mel Chin, Emeka Ogboh, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Kara Crombe, and Alexander Rosenberg, along with on-site "laboratories" for public feedback considered this question and notions of monumentality within the civic sphere.

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Urban Equilibrium—Planning for New Environmental Art

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education embarked on a comprehensive re-envisioning of its art program to align it more fully with its overall goals.

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Questions of Practice

Museum Director Nina Simon on Inspiring Visitor Participation

In an interactive workshop at the Center, Nina Simon, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of *The Participatory Museum*, shared her vision for the future of cultural institutions as personal, dynamic, and collaborative places for visitor engagement.

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Person of the Crowd Opening Party

The Barnes Foundation presents a 1920s-themed opening party for the multi-part exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie.

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The Women’s Mobile Museum: Panel Discussion

In conjunction with the Women’s Mobile Museum exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center holds a panel discussion.

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habitus: Conversation with Ann Hamilton and Maria Popova

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a conversation between visual artist Ann Hamilton and author and art critic Maria Popova.

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Moundverse Infants

Newly commissioned work by visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock examines the representation of race in material culture, inspired by toy dolls from the artist’s own collection and from Philadelphia’s African American Doll Museum.

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Jason Rhoades, Four Roads Discovery Grant

The Institute of Contemporary Art set about organizing the first posthumous survey on the art of Jason Rhoades, consulting with the artist's colleagues and collectors.

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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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Tone Poems & Light Stories: The Great Migration

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will present an exhibition of works originally commissioned for Scribe Video Center’s Center-funded project The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-30).

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden has been the director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem since 2000.

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Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent

Following closely on the heels of revolutionary events in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya in 2011, Marginal Utility's exhibition explored the topic of protest through the work of five artists.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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Home – A Community-engaged Exhibition Planning Model

Challenging conventional notions of expertise, Asian Arts Initiative will invite local community advocates and homeless people to organize a contemporary art exhibition on the concepts of home and homelessness.

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Publishing As Practice: Martine Syms/Dominica

For the second installment of Kayla Romberger’s Publishing As Practice residency program, Martine Syms transforms Ulises bookshop.

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