"Shifting Communities" Exhibition
Bronx Art Space
This event has ended.
Shifting Communities highlights dynamic initiatives in culture and the arts currently at work in the margins of the art world and American society. The goal of this project is to create a paradigm where community-centric contemporary art and artist think-tanks can be a tool for public service; a language for the exploration and investigation of the broader aspects of culture and society; and a magnet that can bring different cultures and ideologies together in order to strengthen a more inclusive definition of community.
Exhibition Schedule:
Shifting: J+J, BroLab, and Nicky Enright
September 9th through October 8th 2011
Shifting: SP Weather Station, Laura Napier, and Christy Speakman
October 21st through November 18th 2011
Shifting: Action Club and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
December 2nd 2011 through January 6th 2012
Shifiting: T.W.O., P.w.O., and W.P.C.
January 20th through February 18th 2012
Bronx artists: Laura Napier (Social Practice/Video), Nicky Enright (Video/Painting/DJ), Hatuey Ramos-Fermin (Installation/Performance), and Christy Speakman (Photography/Sculpture/Video)
Artist Collective Members: Jason Balicki and Jason Eisner (J+J Collective); Ryan Roa, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Robert Amesbury, Adam Brent, Ken Madore, Jonathan Brand, Rahul Alexander, and Edward Lee Bullock (BroLab); Douglas Paulson, Kerry Downey, Christopher Domenick, Christopher Robbins, Justin Rancourt, Chuck Yatsuk, and Jo Q Nelson (Action Club); Heidi Neilson and Natalie Campbell (SP Weather Station); Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller (The Work Office); Erica Leone, Heather M. O'Brien, and Felisia Tandiono (Works Progress Collective); Alexandra Woolsey-Puffer and Jeff Maki (Publicworks Office)
Shifting Communities operates multifold: as a roundtable brainstorming series for students, artists, and local residents; as a curatorial/exhibition initiative; and as Bronx-centric social sculpture.
Roundtable Brainstorming Series: An artist built installation in our exhibition facility will serve as the physical infrastructure for a series of roundtable discussions. Featuring the Bronx as a hub, the roundtable installation will host a yearlong series of discussions based on the changing socio-demographics, community development, and non-profit exhibition strategies (to name a few) across the boroughs of New York City. Each roundtable will feature a Bronx artist alongside an artist collective from outside the Bronx. In addition to the roundtable, the artists are charged with creating an exhibit of art inclusive of the discussion and informed by the Bronx community. The roundtable will also be made available to other artists and community members outside the program to schedule events and activities of their own.
Curatorial/Exhibition Initiative: This series was created in response to the current economic, environmental, and political stress across the country and the grassroots initiatives and local communities of artists that have spawned from it to create innovative and effective interpretations of development and progress. Through four separate exhibitions, this initiative changes the gallery from a space of passive art viewing into one of active art creating. The audience is as integral to the creation of the program as the artists. The artwork stems from discussion and consideration for the community it is created in.
Bronx-centric Social Sculpture: Taken as a whole, this program can be seen as one large artwork. The accumulation of sketches, notes, photographs, and other ephemera from the roundtable presentations, along with the artworks created and exhibited will be archived in a published catalog and video series of documentation and critical dialogue. As the series progresses, the roundtable installation will act as a visual timeline of the work and ideas presented culminating in an archive of the entire program at the close of our season.
Media
Schedule
from September 09, 2011 to February 18, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-20 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Laura Napier, Nicky Enright, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Christy Speakman