Please join us for the opening reception at the Consulate General of Greece in New York for our “Eco-squisite Corpse” show, featuring hand-selected artists within the SHIM Art Network who worked collaboratively on an eco-themed exquisite corpse. The collective work is akin to our eco-system: independent components coming together as one whole system.
OCCUPY #3 - NETWORKS 2022
We are initiating a new research project and exhibition project in New York. We will create a map of initiatives and promote art networks that question, explore and create new paradigms in contemporary and public art. Our goal is to demonstrate how networks are interdependent and how as actors of the arts we inhabit our time and nourish our work with the responsibilities that are born specifically from our presence within communities, from our universal need of belonging and sharing. We want to especially highlight initiatives responding to socio-political change and activism, community-based and public art projects, demonstrate how the hierarchy in the art community is shifting, and create accessibility for artistic minorities.
Openings are on Wednesday, Feb 9th (GR) and Thursday February 17th (FR).
The objectives of Occupy Art Project and of this research group are:
• To structure or to highlight dialogue within the art community and networks
• To maintain movement in creativity while identifying activist and social initiatives and break isolation for artists who face adversity
• To create open dialogue over public policies
• To experiment with new paradigms and work models that promote and empower cooperation in the arts rather than a patriarchal model in culture
• Explore public art as a method, its different forms, how we can occupy public and administrative space
• Respond to social issues highlighted by the pandemic
• Explore new work models which change the paradigms of structure in the arts
• Explore how communities can be the actors of cultural development,
• Create dialogues about artistic citizenship
