Not An Alternative

“Public Address” @ The Change You Want to See

This event is by invite only

http://publik.dk/public_address/index.html

About
The discussion forum takes the form of a five-day meeting in New York facilitating debates on the current situation of art’s role in the public sphere by generating an exchange of different artistic practices and approaches. The aim is to create a dialogue between artists working in different contexts with related issues and to link the similar concerns, challenges and situations we are faced with. The programme for the five-day meeting is planned as a series of discussions addressing questions regarding notions of public space, relevant artistic responses to current conditions and the role of art organisations. A small number of speakers have been invited to give presentations on relevant topics, which will function as inspiration for further debate.

New York meeting
24th – 28th of September 2007

Making things public
Public Address explores how cultural producers work with different strategies to make things publicly known. The project is composed as a discussion forum and the production of a series of posters involving a small group of artists who takes a special interest in various ways of working with public spheres both as a concept as well as on a more concrete level. These different approaches include research oriented practices, activist strategies as well as a more general interest in investigating, countering and producing new or hidden knowledge about topical issues of society and the world we live in.

Participants
Kristina Ask, Kenneth A. Balfelt, Kirsten Forkert, Ayreen Anastas & Renée Gabri, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Annika Lundgren, Rikke Luther, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Daniel Tucker.

Organisers
Public Address is initiated by Nis Rømer, Gregory Sholette and Katarina Stenbeck under publik, a Danish organisation producing art for public spaces in Copenhagen.

Speakers
CUP, Gregory Sholette
Doug Ashford, Not An Alternative

Sponsor
The project is sponsored by the Danish Art Council’s Denmark-New York focus fund DaNY Arts.