[Basekamp Events] Homeworks Forum - Apr 27 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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April 27, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is the next event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with some of the participants in the Home Works  
Forum, a multidisciplinary platform held in Beirut, Lebanon about every other  
year. Since its inception in 2002 at the initiative of the Ashkal Alwan  
Association, Home Works has evolved into a vibrant platform for spirited  
exchange on art and art-related practices in the region and beyond. Artists,  
writers, and thinkers gather for ten days in order to share their works,  
which take the form of exhibitions, performances, lectures, videos,  
artists’ talks, workshops and publications. What links the forum’s  
usership is a desire to engage a common set of urgent questions, to produce  
and consider aesthetic forms capable of embodying those questions  
meaningfully — and above all to work toward the emergence of a public with  
the agency to carry the project forward through action and not just in  
contemplation. Now midway through its 5th edition, the Home Works Forum is a  
space in which political, social and economic realities can be explored,  
reflected, and made manifest as visual and verbal articulations.

“Home Works” suggests an intertwining of public and private spheres, the  
outside world of work and the inside space of home. More broadly, “Home  
Works,” itself an impossible plural, implies a process of internal  
excavation, of digging and burrowing deeper while simultaneously constructing  
and accumulating new practices.

This year, the Forum’s focus is on “In and Out of Education … What Can  
We Teach Nowadays”, looking at the crisis in arts education, the so-called  
“pedagogical turn” in artistic discourse and practice — all in the  
context of the plan to set up a new educational program, The Home Works  
Academy, which will use the city of Beirut itself as its campus, its research  
topic and its platform. Beirut as a plausible artworld…

http://www.ashkalalwan.org/

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

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/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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