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AC Institute NYC, Call for Projects

EXCHANGE VALUE

The ascent of exchange value over use value is everywhere asserted. Less attention is paid to the historical plurality of economies, structures, relationships and traditions that make up the many types of exchange. Separate from its role in producing value on the international market, issues of exchange tend to form and inform reception and cultural opinion. Exchange is not exhausted by the continuing extension of its peculiar value form, but persists, inhabiting the life-world at many moments within human organization and understanding.

In 2010 and 2011, the AC Institute takes up the link between exchange and value to explore the different manifestations of each through both open call and invited artists, writers and others. Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encourage to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of value and exchange; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both.

Submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by July 1, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):


-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces

-Your standard CV and contact information

-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible
Please do not send these items as attachments

About AC Institute:
 The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.

Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.
Jun 04
AC Institute NYC, Call for Projects EXCHANGE VALUE The ascent of exchange value over use value is everywhere asserted. Less attention is paid to the historical plurality of economies, structures, relationships and traditions that make up the many types of exchange. Separate from its role in producing value on the international market, issues of exchange tend to form and inform reception and cultural opinion. Exchange is not exhausted by the continuing extension of its peculiar value form, but persists, inhabiting the life-world at many moments within human organization and understanding. In 2010 and 2011, the AC Institute takes up the link between exchange and value to explore the different manifestations of each through both open call and invited artists, writers and others. Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encourage to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of value and exchange; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by July 1, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments): 
-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces 
-Your standard CV and contact information 
-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible Please do not send these items as attachments About AC Institute:
 The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford. Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art.

During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.
The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style.

At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.
Mar 18
Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

February 4-March 6,

547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor (suite 500)

Hrs: 1-6 pm

NY, NY 10001

Opening  Feb. 4  6-8 pm  

 What will you offer? 

 Participation Installation Project

“But, art as a practical precedent is forever young and physically here with us. Works of art, as theoretical constructs, hold their place in a field of knowledge. As historical artifacts, they speak of ancestry and parental origins. As practical precedents, works of art are orphans, ready to be adopted, nurtured and groomed to the needs to any astonishing new circumstances.”—Dave Hickey,  “Orphans,”  Art in America, January 2009

Orphans Offered Up is participation installation in a space that was formerly an art gallery that is now empty.  

Orphans that I’m offering up are a series of conceptual oil paintings that are very small, 4” x 4”, and intimate.  They are fragments that appear to be abstractions. They are offered up in several different ways.

Offer  is defined as: act of worship or devotion: sacrifice; to present for acceptance or rejection; to propose or suggest; to try or begin to resist; to threaten; to make available; to present in performance or exhibition; to propose as payment; to make an attempt; to present itself; to make a proposal.

        What will you offer me?  Offers will be document accepted.  Some will be accepted.  Suggestions:  Stocks, bonds, a house, another painting, a manuscript, or something else?  Something that is much less tangible?   What are you willing to sacrifice?  If you insistent on money, then the price will be determined by random walk, and that  price will be  a number between one and five hundred,  that will be generated randomly by RANDOM.ORG, Trinity College.  They provide a “random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise.”

          The inspirational sources for the paintings are the invisible engraving marks found in old postage stamps that belonged to my late father.  These painting were first started in 2002. They are not studies. They are not miniatures. They are finished paintings. I have completed more than fifty. 

        Or simply suggest a name. Come by and post it during the exhibition.   Names maybe also submitted by email. Peter Selz has already done just that.

I would like to thank the Pinetree Group for the offer of the space for this project.

Holly Crawford, NYC 2010  

h.c@earthlink.net 

www.art-poetry.info
Jan 29
Jan 29

Orphans Offered Up

 

 

 

www.thebecafoundation.org www.curatethis.org

CURATE THIS! 2010 is going global!

…on the ground AND in cyberland.

A Global Exhibition of Emerging Contemporary Art + Design | An Experimental, Cross-Pollination of New Ideas for Progress + Possibility

January 1, 2010 – CURATE THIS! 2010, the second chapter in the evolution of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world.  The global art + design exhibition will take place from July 1 – December 31, 2010.

Through the exhibition of works of art + design by emerging artists, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for  creative innovation in diverse locations around the world.  The title, ‘CURATE THIS!’ reflects a departure from the familiar large scale exhibition model, typically curated by a singular vision with one head curator, to an exhibition with components and related events ‘curated’ by the public and professional and independent participants residing in multiple cities around the world.  The first ‘CURATE THIS!’ experiment took place in early 2008 and led artists and directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough to begin brainstorming the expansion of the experiment to bring about greater benefits to a larger number of participants.

BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” To help mix that fuel and kick start new possibilities, the expansion of the CURATE THIS! exhibition project will facilitate a broader exposure of new art, new design and new ideas through both a physical and online network of participating venues in multiple cities around the world. The aim of building the network is to create international arts + cultural exchange opportunities, broaden arts education opportunities, build appreciation for emerging contemporary art + design, facilitate introductions and lay the foundation for future collaborations toward the realization of a progressive, meaningful and fulfilling future for everyone.  Global online content delivery of exhibition events and related special projects will enable global participation by millions around the world.  The BECA Foundation is pleased to welcome the participation of Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK whose research and curatorial work spans the globe including the US and Iraq and Ellen Lupton, legendary design educator and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Each has a unique insight which will add further depth and diversity to new CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibition components.

Upcoming participating venues in Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Denver, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York and London have been the first locations to sign on.  Venue participation proposals have also been submitted by exclusively online communities. Organizations, artists, designers, independent and established curators, gallery and art space directors as well as lease-holders and owners of other event and non-traditional exhibition spaces located anywhere in the world may email Melissa Roberts at mail@thebecafoundation.org for venue participation information.  The BECA Foundation is building a global network to achieve a positive impact on the future of the residents of cities around the world. The formerly unimaginable, previously impossible and the creative ideas and proposals that may run counter to the current status quo are most welcome. Artists and designers may register to participate at: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/calls-to-artists.html

“Free your mind and the rest will follow.” – Thomas McElroy and Denzil Foster
Jan 04
Jan 04

The BECA Foundation Announces Global Expansion of Curate This! 2010 

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde    Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition   As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others. Which facts construct our identities? Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them? Is the identity we display in public different than our private one? What happens if we take an identity of another person? Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible? Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?   For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.   Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):   -A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces   -Your standard CV and contact information   -Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible   NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE     About AC Institute: The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.   Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.    AC Institute [Direct] 547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor New York, NY 10001
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde    Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition   As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others. Which facts construct our identities? Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them? Is the identity we display in public different than our private one? What happens if we take an identity of another person? Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible? Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?   For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.   Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):   -A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces   -Your standard CV and contact information   -Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible   NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE     About AC Institute: The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.   Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.    AC Institute [Direct] 547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor New York, NY 10001

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde

 

 Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition

 

As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others.

Which facts construct our identities?

Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them?

Is the identity we display in public different than our private one?

What happens if we take an identity of another person?

Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible?

Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?

 

For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.

 

Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both.

Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):

 

-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces

 

-Your standard CV and contact information

 

-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible

 

NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE

 

 

About AC Institute:

The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.

 

Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

  

AC Institute [Direct]

547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor

New York, NY 10001

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AC Institute NYC, Call for Projects EXCHANGE VALUE The ascent of exchange value over use value is everywhere asserted. Less attention is paid to the historical plurality of economies, structures, relationships and traditions that make up the many types of exchange. Separate from its role in producing value on the international market, issues of exchange tend to form and inform reception and cultural opinion. Exchange is not exhausted by the continuing extension of its peculiar value form, but persists, inhabiting the life-world at many moments within human organization and understanding. In 2010 and 2011, the AC Institute takes up the link between exchange and value to explore the different manifestations of each through both open call and invited artists, writers and others. Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encourage to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of value and exchange; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by July 1, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments): 
-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces 
-Your standard CV and contact information 
-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible Please do not send these items as attachments About AC Institute:
 The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford. Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.
AC Institute NYC, Call for Projects EXCHANGE VALUE The ascent of exchange value over use value is everywhere asserted. Less attention is paid to the historical plurality of economies, structures, relationships and traditions that make up the many types of exchange. Separate from its role in producing value on the international market, issues of exchange tend to form and inform reception and cultural opinion. Exchange is not exhausted by the continuing extension of its peculiar value form, but persists, inhabiting the life-world at many moments within human organization and understanding. In 2010 and 2011, the AC Institute takes up the link between exchange and value to explore the different manifestations of each through both open call and invited artists, writers and others. Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encourage to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of value and exchange; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by July 1, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments): 
-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces 
-Your standard CV and contact information 
-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible Please do not send these items as attachments About AC Institute:
 The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford. Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

AC Institute NYC, Call for Projects

EXCHANGE VALUE

The ascent of exchange value over use value is everywhere asserted. Less attention is paid to the historical plurality of economies, structures, relationships and traditions that make up the many types of exchange. Separate from its role in producing value on the international market, issues of exchange tend to form and inform reception and cultural opinion. Exchange is not exhausted by the continuing extension of its peculiar value form, but persists, inhabiting the life-world at many moments within human organization and understanding.

In 2010 and 2011, the AC Institute takes up the link between exchange and value to explore the different manifestations of each through both open call and invited artists, writers and others. Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encourage to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of value and exchange; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both.

Submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by July 1, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):


-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces

-Your standard CV and contact information

-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible
Please do not send these items as attachments

About AC Institute:
 The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.

Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

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SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT
SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOP
MAY 2010 EVENTS 
Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American Dream
With series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.
Sunday May 23, 7-10PM
[FREE]

Photo Silk Screen Printing Workshop
Led by Ari Pottens
Saturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch
[$40 materials fee]
Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.
Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.
Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.
SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.com
THURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

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Posted on Thursday May 6th 2010 at 12:37am. It's tags are listed below.

Double Solo Exhibition Opportunity: Call to Artists + Designers   **submission receive deadline is June 3, 2010**   The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the following double solo exhibition opportunity to two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives to exhibit new works of art or design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA. This Call to Artists and Designers will remain open through June 3, 2010. Artists + designers at least 18 years of age from all countries are encouraged to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. Two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the double solo exhibition opportunity from July 3 – 31, 2010. Each of those two selected will be allocated either the front or rear gallery space for the exhibition of their work. Submitted works are not required to conform to any particular medium, style, theme or concept. Accepted works and mediums include but are not limited to: site-specific installations, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, illustration, digital art, photography, video/new media, film, performance art, music and sound focused works, 3D animation, graphic design, product design, furniture design, haute couture fashion + accessories, architectural interventions/designs and functional art, etc.  In other words, all creative culminations are welcome.   With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person. A special edition e-publication covering the exhibition will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.   BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” Some of you may know that The BECA Foundation is in the early development phase of BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), the world’s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers.  In the meantime, exhibitions will continue to be held at the current exhibition space located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center where exhibitions have been held since January 2008. Gallery photos may be viewed at: http://www.becaicad.org/photos.php  Complete submission information may be downloaded from http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

Double Solo Exhibition Opportunity: Call to Artists + Designers

 

**submission receive deadline is June 3, 2010**

 

The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the following double solo exhibition opportunity to two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives to exhibit new works of art or design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA. This Call to Artists and Designers will remain open through June 3, 2010. Artists + designers at least 18 years of age from all countries are encouraged to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. Two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the double solo exhibition opportunity from July 3 – 31, 2010. Each of those two selected will be allocated either the front or rear gallery space for the exhibition of their work. Submitted works are not required to conform to any particular medium, style, theme or concept. Accepted works and mediums include but are not limited to: site-specific installations, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, illustration, digital art, photography, video/new media, film, performance art, music and sound focused works, 3D animation, graphic design, product design, furniture design, haute couture fashion + accessories, architectural interventions/designs and functional art, etc.  In other words, all creative culminations are welcome.

 

With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person. A special edition e-publication covering the exhibition will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.

 

BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” Some of you may know that The BECA Foundation is in the early development phase of BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), the world’s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers.  In the meantime, exhibitions will continue to be held at the current exhibition space located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center where exhibitions have been held since January 2008. Gallery photos may be viewed at: http://www.becaicad.org/photos.php  Complete submission information may be downloaded from http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

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Posted on Thursday March 18th 2010 at 10:35am. It's tags are listed below.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.
Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art.

During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.
The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style.

At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

Orphans Offered Up

Posted on Friday January 29th 2010 at 06:53pm. It's tags are listed below.

Orphans Offered Up

February 4-March 6,

547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor (suite 500)

Hrs: 1-6 pm

NY, NY 10001

Opening  Feb. 4  6-8 pm  

 What will you offer? 

 Participation Installation Project

“But, art as a practical precedent is forever young and physically here with us. Works of art, as theoretical constructs, hold their place in a field of knowledge. As historical artifacts, they speak of ancestry and parental origins. As practical precedents, works of art are orphans, ready to be adopted, nurtured and groomed to the needs to any astonishing new circumstances.”—Dave Hickey,  “Orphans,”  Art in America, January 2009

Orphans Offered Up is participation installation in a space that was formerly an art gallery that is now empty.  

Orphans that I’m offering up are a series of conceptual oil paintings that are very small, 4” x 4”, and intimate.  They are fragments that appear to be abstractions. They are offered up in several different ways.

Offer  is defined as: act of worship or devotion: sacrifice; to present for acceptance or rejection; to propose or suggest; to try or begin to resist; to threaten; to make available; to present in performance or exhibition; to propose as payment; to make an attempt; to present itself; to make a proposal.

        What will you offer me?  Offers will be document accepted.  Some will be accepted.  Suggestions:  Stocks, bonds, a house, another painting, a manuscript, or something else?  Something that is much less tangible?   What are you willing to sacrifice?  If you insistent on money, then the price will be determined by random walk, and that  price will be  a number between one and five hundred,  that will be generated randomly by RANDOM.ORG, Trinity College.  They provide a “random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise.”

          The inspirational sources for the paintings are the invisible engraving marks found in old postage stamps that belonged to my late father.  These painting were first started in 2002. They are not studies. They are not miniatures. They are finished paintings. I have completed more than fifty. 

        Or simply suggest a name. Come by and post it during the exhibition.   Names maybe also submitted by email. Peter Selz has already done just that.

I would like to thank the Pinetree Group for the offer of the space for this project.

Holly Crawford, NYC 2010  

h.c@earthlink.net 

www.art-poetry.info

The BECA Foundation Announces Global Expansion of Curate This! 2010 

Posted on Monday January 4th 2010 at 06:42am. It's tags are listed below.

The BECA Foundation Announces Global Expansion of Curate This! 2010 

 

 

 

www.thebecafoundation.org www.curatethis.org

CURATE THIS! 2010 is going global!

…on the ground AND in cyberland.

A Global Exhibition of Emerging Contemporary Art + Design | An Experimental, Cross-Pollination of New Ideas for Progress + Possibility

January 1, 2010 – CURATE THIS! 2010, the second chapter in the evolution of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world.  The global art + design exhibition will take place from July 1 – December 31, 2010.

Through the exhibition of works of art + design by emerging artists, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for  creative innovation in diverse locations around the world.  The title, ‘CURATE THIS!’ reflects a departure from the familiar large scale exhibition model, typically curated by a singular vision with one head curator, to an exhibition with components and related events ‘curated’ by the public and professional and independent participants residing in multiple cities around the world.  The first ‘CURATE THIS!’ experiment took place in early 2008 and led artists and directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough to begin brainstorming the expansion of the experiment to bring about greater benefits to a larger number of participants.

BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” To help mix that fuel and kick start new possibilities, the expansion of the CURATE THIS! exhibition project will facilitate a broader exposure of new art, new design and new ideas through both a physical and online network of participating venues in multiple cities around the world. The aim of building the network is to create international arts + cultural exchange opportunities, broaden arts education opportunities, build appreciation for emerging contemporary art + design, facilitate introductions and lay the foundation for future collaborations toward the realization of a progressive, meaningful and fulfilling future for everyone.  Global online content delivery of exhibition events and related special projects will enable global participation by millions around the world.  The BECA Foundation is pleased to welcome the participation of Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK whose research and curatorial work spans the globe including the US and Iraq and Ellen Lupton, legendary design educator and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Each has a unique insight which will add further depth and diversity to new CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibition components.

Upcoming participating venues in Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Denver, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York and London have been the first locations to sign on.  Venue participation proposals have also been submitted by exclusively online communities. Organizations, artists, designers, independent and established curators, gallery and art space directors as well as lease-holders and owners of other event and non-traditional exhibition spaces located anywhere in the world may email Melissa Roberts at mail@thebecafoundation.org for venue participation information.  The BECA Foundation is building a global network to achieve a positive impact on the future of the residents of cities around the world. The formerly unimaginable, previously impossible and the creative ideas and proposals that may run counter to the current status quo are most welcome. Artists and designers may register to participate at: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/calls-to-artists.html

“Free your mind and the rest will follow.” – Thomas McElroy and Denzil Foster

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