Basekamp team

People

The BASEKAMP TEAM derived their name from the exhibition space which members the group founded in 1998 and continue run in Philadelphia. Using their Philadelphia facility as a home base, the BASEKAMP TEAM invites domestic and international collaborative groups to engage in experiments to develop new models of relations within overlapping art communities. They also participate in other initiatives by creating collaborative projects which exhibit internationally, often working with other artists and groups.

The BASEKAMP TEAM's participation in critical curating is approached as an interdisciplinary team of artists and not necessarily as curators. A majority of the BASEKAMP TEAM's cultural involvement has taken the form of exhibition-making, reinventing who-does-what, and reexamining artist roles and relationships. This, in addition to an exclusive emphasis on collaboration, has led the team to hybridize the roles of curator, archivist, artist, and audience in their work -- illuminatiing the possibilities of agency and autonomy in cultural co-production.