[Basekamp Events] Dark Matter Archives & Imaginary Archive - Jun 22 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

======== DARK MATTER ARCHIVES & IMAGINARY ARCHIVE ============================

June 22, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another 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 artist and writer Gregory Sholette about  
his ongoing “Dark Matter Archives” project. As Sholette will be joining  
us from Wellington, New Zealand, where he is currently organizing his  
“Wellington Collaboratorium”, the conversation will also focus on the  
related “Imaginary Archive.”

http://www.darkmatterarchives.net/

Performative archiving is obviously a key component of many plausible  
artworlds but it has remained largely implicit in our weekly discussions  
until now. Though we have focused on practices with deliberately impaired  
coefficients of artistic visibility, this week we hope to explicitly tease  
out some of the paradoxes around the politics of that (in)visibility. The  
wonderfully and elusively titled “Dark Matter Archives” is dedicated  
precisely to those who resist visibility, as well as to those who are refused  
visibility by mainstream culture. In doing so, the Archives seek to provide  
knowledge, documents, and tools about the history and current practices of  
culture’s “missing mass.” Their goal is to reinforce whatever degree of  
autonomy marginalized artists, informal artists, and art collectives have  
wrested from the mainstream institutions of culture.

The “Wellington Collaboratorium” issues forth from the ambitious project,  
taking the notion of collaboration as a living, working material to be  
uncovered, explored, and put into motion. One of the collaboratorium’s  
outcomes is the Imaginary Archive, comprised of novels, brochures,  
catalogues, pamphlets, newsletters, and other material inserted into  
second-hand bookstores and other public places, seeking to present an  
alternative vision of the realities our society plausibly might inhabit, had  
the world been shaped differently. And perhaps more plausibly.

http://www.enjoy.org.nz/

http://www.gregorysholette.com/

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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