I’ve been working with the groups InCUBATE and Temporary Services to mount an exhibition at PSU this coming weekend. It will be up for three days – Saturday, Sunday and Monday – so come check it out. Several different events will be taking place in the gallery during the weekend as well, so pair your visit with home-brewed beers and a trivia competition, a currency creation workshop or artist talk. See below for more information!
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The Autzen Gallery Presents Chicago artist groups InCUBATE & Temporary Services addressing Art & Money
PORTLAND – The Autzen Gallery at Portland State University presents works by Chicago groups InCUBATE and Temporary Services May 15-17 during Open Engagement, a conference exploring socially engaged art (openengagement.info). The exhibit demands that we start talking about money and begin exploring alternative economic models within the art world.
With Pilot Studies, InCUBATE introduces their research project on grassroots, community-based fundraising and organizing for creative projects. The exhibit will present their first 5 issues from an ongoing booklet series which addresses everything from how to begin a dinner-funded artist grant program, to pragmatism, to contemporary art in the Ukraine.
Artist group Temporary Services will be distributing their publication Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics, a fourty-page newspaper about the state of art during the economic collapse. Articles by artists, critics, historians and activists discuss ways that artists are surviving, alternative funding mechanisms, creative resistance to capitalism and more. Artists and art institutions around the country are distributing this paper and hosting open and explicit conversations about money and its impact on artists and their work.
Art Work features work by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Holland Cotter, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst and Robby Herbst, Harrell Fletcher, Futurefarmers, Justseeds: Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative, InCUBATE (Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday) , W.A.G.E. (Working Artsits and the Greater Economy), FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics), Guerrilla Art Action Group, 16 Beaver Group, Teaching Artist Union, Robin Hewlett, and many others. The newspaper is available online at www.artandwork.us and is being distributed for free throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
On Saturday, May 15 from 9PM-midnight, Portland’s Gallery Homeland teams with InCUBATE to host a Trivia Night cocktail party to launch the Portland Artist-run Benefit Society, a mutual aid society for artist-run spaces and projects, organized in collaboration with Katy Asher and others. This event will feature Team Trivia play, hosted by Randall Szott, home-brewed beer by Eric Steen and herb-infused vodka by Sam Gould of Red76.
Exhibit and all related events take place at the Autzen Gallery, 2nd Floor Neuberger Hall, Portland State University
When:
| May 15-17, 2010 | Open hours in gallery Saturday & Monday 9am-5pm, Sunday 2-5 pm | |
| May 15 | 2:30-4:30 | Makin’ Up Money: Alternative Economies Workshop with Maiko Tanaka and Chris Lee |
| May 15 | 9pm – 12am | Trivia Night for the Artist Run Benefit Society, hosted by Gallery Homeland |
| May 16 | 2:30-4:30 | Artist talk with InCUBATE, Bitter Melon Council, Broken City Lab and students from the Public Practice MFA program at Otis College |
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InCUBATE is a research institute dedicated to exploring creative approaches to arts administration and arts funding, particularly for those doing non-commercial creative work. The group organizes exhibitions, publications, lectures, and meals to figure out how to collectively achieve new possibilities.
Temporary Services is a group comprised of Chicago-based artists Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects and publications that blur the distinctions between art practice and other creative endeavors.
galleryHOMELAND is a Portland, OR based non-profit arts organization advancing awareness of Portland’s rich cultural community by creating new opportunities and lasting cultural exchange in a unique series of programs focused on exporting local arts and artists and importing national and international art and artists.
The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration and co-sponsored by Portland Community College and the MFA in Visual Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and supported by the Cyan PDX Cultural Residency Program. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, this conference features three nationally and internationally renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini, and Nils Norman. Open Engagement is made possible through generous support by:
**Sweet awesome exhibition illustration (above) by Rudy Speerschneider.