Bookmarks tagged with Artinitiatives
Le salon
Le Salon is an online platform aimed at presenting, documenting and reflecting on the Brussels contemporary art scene. Le Salon is a curatorial project initiated by Devrim Bayar and developed in close collaboration with Virginie Devillez and Martin Laborde. Regular contributors and special guests are invited to contribute to the content of the website with reviews, interviews, studio visits or thematic texts.
HOTEL CHARLEROI
Hotel Charleroi is a flexible structure initiated by three European artists who would like to live and work in Charleroi. Located 60 km south from Brussels, Charleroi is a decaying industrial town with all associated symptoms - high unemployment rate, raising criminality, corruption affairs, etc. Its surrealistic urban landscape, reminiscences from an intense industrial past (slag heaps, steel factories) along with numerous irrational public infrastructures planned in the sixties (metro, ring road on viaduct), doesn't fit at all with its relatively small scale (pop. 400 000).
The Thami Mnyele Foundation
an artists-in-residence program, enabling artists from Africa the opportunity to live and work in Amsterdam for a period of three months. The atelier, that the Thami Mnyele Foundation made available, continues to be a vibrant meeting place for artists from Africa and artists from the Netherlands.
Institute for Provocation
IFP is the collaborative intelligence of architect Chen Shuyu (Beijing) and dramaturge Els Silvrants-Barclay (Antwerp). Beijing operates as a research station hosting residencies and Antwerp functions as its curatorial and editorial extension. Projects are not limited to the one or the other location; they travel in between.
Sàn Art
Sàn Art is an independent, artist-run exhibition space and reading room located in Ho Chi Minh City. Dedicated to the exchange and cultivation of contemporary art in Vietnam. We aim to support the country’s thriving artist community by creating opportunities that provide exhibition space, residency programs for young artists, lecture series and an exchange program that invites international artists/curators to organize or collaborate on exhibitions.
Constant
Constant works in-between media and art and is interested in the culture and ethics of the World Wide Web. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine our daily life. Free software, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism are important threads running through the activities of Constant.
or-bits.com
or-bits.com is an ongoing curatorial project, a platform displaying contemporary arts and a trigger for the production of new works.
Nadine
nadine is an arts laboratory aimed at developing research focusing on transdisciplinary experiments in the fields of new media and live arts. nadine is a flexible and evolving project that doesn’t shy away from questioning itself, to be able to stay on top of the constantly changing needs of the artists.
Recyclart
The non-profit organization Recyclart was founded in the context of the Urban Pilot Project Recyclart. This Brussels-based project was initiated early 1996 by the Delegation for the Development of the Pentagon (Urban Development Department of the City of Brussels) in cooperation with various other services.
SOMA
SOMA is an experimental project conceived to optimise discussion and exchange in the field of contemporary art. Our goal is to produce a counterpoint to the dynamics of art schools, museums, and galleries. SOMA has been conceived by local contemporary artists with the intention of building upon the experiences of local alternative spaces like La Panadería and T44.
Filipa Oliveira+Miguel Amado
Filipa Oliveira+Miguel Amado have been working internationally since 2009, having shifted their focus from conventional exhibition formats to critically engaging, participatory projects informed by the relationships of aesthetics and ethics within artistic practice.
Machine Project
Machine Project is a non-profit community space in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food
Lumpen
Operating a Front for The Left in the Arts since 1991.
Co-Prosperity Sphere
The Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS) is an experimental cultural center located in Bridgeport (Chicago), The Community of the Future.
Experimental Station
Taking its name from a speech given by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 ("The Art and Craft of the Machine"), the Experimental Station exceeds even Wright's dream of a place where art and technology would embrace one another under the same roof, where such an encounter would lead to new ideas and innovative designs and practices.
Partizan Publik
Partizan Publik is devoted to a braver society. The Partizans explore, produce and implement social, political and cultural instruments, which generate positive and sustainable change to people and their surroundings.
P.A.P.A. (Participating Artists Press Agency)
Alarmbells are ringing. What we need is step back and see the world as the astronauts saw it and ask ourselves how are we managing that? Big cities are the new centres to be connected into a global society that works together.
Chto delat / What is to be done?
Chto delat / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see full list of participants on the web site) with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism.
Mobile Institute
The Mobile Institute is an art platform createdby artists. It values the need of a more open platform for art development and its various exhibited forms, through the application of interdisciplinary art practices. It maintains to function as an auxiliary system, collaborating with institutions and artists.
Slabprojects
Slab is an exhibition method enacted by Los Angles-based artist Wendy Mason and Houston-based curator Nancy Zastudil. We operate on a project-by-project basis and function as a literal and metaphorical platform for artists' works, including solo, group and collaborative projects. Our exhibition concept finds potential in experimental locations.
White Elephant Collective
The White Elephant Collective is a Berlin based international artists group that specializes in these unique but forgotten places of a city. Our goal is to find, investigate and eventually reactivate these locations through site specific exhibitions and events.
History of New
What happens when artists embrace new technologies? impressionism? hip-hop? tagged folksonomies? interactive narratives? glowing bunnies? 'We are building a public online (real)timeline of inventions that were or should be co-opted by artists, and artwork that was created using technology. You can help by adding your favorite invention or artwork. All entries are piped into the gallery as an interactive, wall-projected timeline.'
CASCOLAND
Public Art is an important tool in activating and developing public space. In the kind of Public Art Cascoland promotes, inter-disciplinary artists engage themselves in communities to collaborate with audiences and members of the communities in shaping their public space through dialogue and participation.
Index of /Public Space With A Roof
The PSWAR project space consists of a 45sqm space and a mezzanine office area. It hosts an archive of artist documentation, publications and project descriptions. Artists can submit documentation to the archive, which can be accessed by the public during opening hours.
Citymine(d) : about us
City Mine(d) is a production house for urban interventions, committed to the development of new forms of urban citizenship, the re-appropriation of public space -roads, airwaves, stations, estates, parks, squares, virtual space- and the creation of cutting edge public artwork. The initially Belgian NGO now has agencies in Brussels, Barcelona and London, which are registered offices of the head office in Brussels.