- Artivistic Promiscuous Infrastructures (Phase 2) Friday March 9 → Saturday April 14, 2012
From Friday March 9 to Saturday April 14, 2012
Opening, Friday March 9 at 5pm
During five weeks, Artivistic will activate a community hub by transforming the gallery into a temporary press for the production and distribution of collective iterative print material. The space will consist of a hybrid between a creative lab, a radical documentation centre and an exhibition of works exuding the spirit of infrastructures at the expense of fear and isolation.
The temporary printing workshop will serve as an action-oriented affinity building machine. This intervention represents an important stage of our development of “promiscuous infrastructures,” that of visualising our research. By “night shifting” the Skol office (as one of those promiscuous infrastructures) in the months leading up to the spring, we will build an intimate and supportive community in anticipation of the show, and develop a convivial environment for the public to engage with the process. Material will be made available in malleable form, in the spirit of critical open source, community building and mutual valuation of our diverse tactics. The public will be invited to borrow material available in the gallery in order to inject life into material to be relayed.
In its ongoing investigation into autonomous infrastructures, Artivistic proposes insights into the “base” of creative life in our society, particularly in how it pertains to the work of artists, activists and academics, by asking: How do we build value in affective relationships? How do we organise for that (models, processes, strategies)? How do we in turn outstretch these in the long-term? http://artivistic.org
Artivistic is currently in transition, experimenting ways of being perpetually creative within a hostile political and economic context. From 2004 to 2009, the Artivistic collective organized thematic events including four large-scale, international and transdisciplinary gatherings on the interPlay between art, information and activism, bringing together diverse artists-organisers and other thinkers & makers. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists can talk about art, activists about activism, and academics about theory. Artivistic aims to inspire, proliferate, activate.
