FIGMENT is a forum for the creation and display of participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, FIGMENT has grown significantly each year—in number of projects, duration, participants, volunteers, fundraising capability, exhibitions, locations, overall level of commitment and participation, and public support.
The municipalWORKSHOP is grassroots creative laboratory and a division of M12. We are dedicated to the creation and facilitation of contemporary public art projects, which cover a wide spectrum of disciplines, configurations, and locales. We work in collaboration with municipalities, community groups, and community members in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships.
Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts creates, promotes and presents collaborations within the disciplines of visual, literary, and the performing arts: connecting visual artists, choreographers, composers, writers and other originating artists with venues and each other.
We are a London-based group of current or ex interns, mainly from the creative and cultural sectors, who regularly meets to think together around the conditions of free labour in contemporary societies.
We are currently undertaking a participatory action research around voluntary work, internship, job placements and compulsory free work in order to understand thier impact they have on material conditions of existence, life expectations and sense of self, together with their implications in relation to education, life long training, exploitation, and class interest.
ARTISTS IN CONTEXT is a flexible organizational framework designed to assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.
Not really sure what they do yet….will keep you posted.
Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts is a member-based artist organization uniting theory and practice. It is organized around two interconnected models: a labor Union and a Research Institute. The Union hosts a listserv and organizes events to connect all impractical laborers, fostering solidarity, community and fellowship. The listserv also enables ILSSA Members to propose projects, events and publications to the group. The Research Institute conducts research and publishes original literature in the form of the ILSSA Quarterly, addressing issues of interest to impractical laborers and the general public. Members and Boosters receive the Quarterly, and in the near future will be invited to contribute to it.
THE DILL PICKLE CLUB Advocates nor Propagates Nothing. Our operation was established for the sole purpose of furnishing a center where IDEAS and TALENT can be given a chance to be seen and heard. We welcome new ideas and methods. THE DILL PICKLE CLUB is organized by Marc Moscato, Lucy Rockwell & Kyle Von Hoetzendorff.
The DILL PICKLE CLUB’s namesake originates from Jazz-Age Chicago’s legendary yet ill-forgotten speakeasy, founded in 1914 by labor organizer Jack Jones, Jim Larkin and Ben “Clap Doctor” Reitman. The Pickle was the heart of the “Chicago Renaissance” and the meeting spot for the city’s most noted authors, musicians and activists, including Sherwood Anderson, Ben Hecht, Mary MacLane, Lucy Parsons, Kenneth Rexroth and Carl Sandburg. It closed its doors in 1934.
Yesterday I got to speak with Robin, a co-founder of Backstory Café and Social Center on 61st Street & Blackstone Avenue in the South side of Chicago. The space is incredibly inspiring, housed at the fantastic Experimental Station! Currently their model is an LLC, using a small cafe as an interface in serving the local community. Backstory’s vision is amazing, a self-sustaining social center, modeled in the same vein as an ecosystem. Their funding coming from the brilliant food they serve, and voices coming from the situated community surrounding the physical cafe space. Learn more about the Cafe here…
The Experimental Station is a not-for-profit (501-c-3) incubator of innovative cultural, educational, and environmental projects and small-scale enterprises. The Experimental Station was established in 2002 upon a long history of socially, artistically, and environmentally significant projects that had operated quietly but successfully at its location at 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue. In the 1990s, the address, owned and managed by artist Dan Peterman, steadily developed a reputation among local, national and international cultural networks for its vitality, innovation and social relevance. A devastating fire in April 2001 halted activities. The hiatus opened up, however, the exciting opportunity to realize our vision of creating a more sustainable organization, while continuing to foster the types and quality of projects for which the building at 6100 S. Blackstone had become known. That organization is the Experimental Station.
I am now in Chicago at Residency via InCUBATE Chicago – The Institute for Community Understanding between Art and the Everyday! I wanted to start off with a blog post about Mess Hall started by Temporary Services and many other artists. If you find yourself in Chicago – stop by InCUBATE and find me! So many art spaces, gardens and more to explore!
Mess Hall is an experimental cultural center. It is a place where visual art, radical politics, creative urban planning, applied ecological design and other things intersect and inform each other. We host exhibitions, discussions, film screenings, brunchlucks (brunch + potluck), workshops, concerts, campaigns, meetings (both closed and open) and more.
Platform21 is a design platform aiming to positively influence the relationship between user and product.
Through our projects we question today’s society, connect amateur and professional creativity, reveal the making process, and stimulate dialogue and the sharing of creative knowledge.
We believe that showing and sharing the process of creation is a powerful way to engage a broad audience in divers aspects of design. It opens up the assumption that design is a professionals’ creative discipline only.
Since 2006 we have been using a former, round chapel in Amsterdam as our public laboratory. Here we have initiated and organised exhibitions, research projects, workshops, lectures, discussions and club nights.
The municipalWORKSHOP is grassroots creative laboratory and a division of M12. We are dedicated to the creation and facilitation of contemporary public art projects, which cover a wide spectrum of disciplines, configurations, and locales. We work in collaboration with municipalities, community groups, and community members in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships.
Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts creates, promotes and presents collaborations within the disciplines of visual, literary, and the performing arts: connecting visual artists, choreographers, composers, writers and other originating artists with venues and each other.
We are a London-based group of current or ex interns, mainly from the creative and cultural sectors, who regularly meets to think together around the conditions of free labour in contemporary societies.
ARTISTS IN CONTEXT is a flexible organizational framework designed to assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.
