[Basekamp Events] First Friday! "What's Mine Is Yours" @ basekamp

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Come visit!
Basekamp is open for the First Friday!

What's Mine Is Yours
On view through January 3, 2009

Gallery hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 1-3pm and by appointment
Location: 723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
More info: www.basekamp.com

What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine, so the saying goes. Some  
think it is a Jewish proverb, others cite it as a socialist ideal. Is  
this concept of share and share alike relevant to artistic  
collaboration? The exhibition What's Mine Is Yours examines the  
motives and results of artistic collaboration, a mode of artmaking  
that questions fixed notions of authorship, resists institutional  
hierarchies, and in some cases, implicates unintentional participants  
through public, unannounced stagings of performative artworks.
What's Mine Is Yours presents a range of projects that are  
collaborative and address artistic collaboration. Artists in the  
exhibition include Rey Akdogan, Kabir Carter, Bjorn Kjelltoft and  
Shana Moulton, The Mercury Twins (Emcee C.M., Master of None and Huong  
Ngo) with the K.I.D.S., and vydavy sindikat (whose name in Russian  
means 'you and you collective').
Rey Akdogan and Kabir Carter provide a critique of conventional  
collaboration. For the exhibition, Akdogan has generated a list of the  
good, the bad, and the ugly associations with collaboration. Carter's  
sound-based performances are generated with a combination of input  
from viewers, the immediate environment, and the unwitting  
contributions of radio operators and endusers of electronic  
communications systems. From Bjorn Kjelltoft and Shana Moulton is a  
video created for a joint exhibition at Fordham University in New York  
where they produced new video and a performance in which their  
respective identities merged under the title Star Systems. More  
broadly participatory is The Mercury Twins' Cloud City which the  
artists - Emcee C.M., Master of None and Huong Ngo - propose as an  
open invitation to the public of a given place to form an instant  
community like a gathering of clouds. Similarly open-ended in respect  
to participation is vydavy sindikat's Public Gathering Project which  
is a real time, public space correlative to technologically based  
networking systems. All together, the artists in What's Mine Is Yours  
question the nature of collaboration and provide idealistic answers as  
to what it might mean. In all, the negotiations of 'working together'  
are revealed to be murky and complex, and are dependent upon the  
generosity of co-conspirators, viewers, organizers, the public, and you.
What's Mine Is Yours has been organized by Sara Reisman.

See some reviews
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/11/06/just-do-it-2
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2060


BASEKAMP is an artist-group and non-commercial space, which has  
researched and co-developed interdisciplinary, self-organized art  
projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship- 
blurring configurations for the past decade. We use our Philadelphia  
space, along with temporary camps in other locations, as a home base  
to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint  
experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art  
communities. The goal is to continue proposing collaboration as a  
practical and theoretical stance, and to participate in its evolution.
www.basekamp.com
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