What we will be working on during the Strategic Planning Weekend is a proposed project for 2007, which we intend to seek additional funding for near the end of this planning process. So far, Plausible Artworlds is envisioned as a large-scale international convention and exhibition project hosted in Philadelphia during 2007.
The Convention:
The idea is that this convention will be largely guided by the artists and groups participating in the exhibition, chosen for the collaborative, organizational, and socially engaged nature of their work. The focus of this convention will be an assumption that contemporary art in a very general sense serves as an instigator or facilitator of dialogue, and stands in as a substitute or metaphor for potentially anything else. An exhibition focused on ?artworlds? in particular, quickly narrows that discursive and metaphoric function of the work to a discussion about those areas of culture which relate to relationships, communication, and social structures. The focus of ?Plausible Artworlds’ hints that artworlds themselves are already metaphors or models of other sectors of culture, which are also in need of re-evaluation and hypothetical speculation.
The Exhibition:
The artworks in the exhibition, while all originating as models or proposals, we hope will represent a wide range of media, scale, attitude, opinions & vision. The artists will be invited not only to submit pre-made artworks to be included in a standard exhibition, but to form a temporary collective. To meet and discuss, think-tank style, the future of the model artworlds they are creating together. When not face-to-face, the artists will continue to communicate with the curatorial team and with each other via a central web bulletin board to set up committees, town meetings, create and break laws, wreak havoc and restore order, present utopian and sarcastic solutions.
Through this process, the exhibition structure will be "built from the ground up" by the collective. Individual artists’ & artworks will carve niches for themselves and invade each other’s territory. Many will hybridize or overlap in order to bring about new functions or meanings related to the overall theme of the exhibition. The artworks in the show will simultaneously work together and compete, in order to collectively and individually question how relations, communities, and structures within artworlds are organized and maintained. It questions who this serves, and what we are capable of imagining in it’s place.
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