In a great post on his blog, photographer Dawoud Bey raises some very Sharkpack-like questions about how to circumvent the decided lack of appropriate institutional support:
"Within the past week here in Chicago there have been no less than two panel discussions on race and art production. More specifically these panel discussions (with vocal audience exchanges) looked at black art and black art production, or as yesterday's panel at the University of Chicago (in conjunction with the exhibition Black Is/Black Ain't) was entitled, "Post Black: There and Back Again." Thursday night's program at the Experimental Station, which was organized by Theaster Gates as part of the "Representations" series on culture, politics, and aesthetics, was entitled "Black Enough?"
Both of these gatherings were lively, engaging, and variously informative, and provided a much needed forum for the airing of ideas that usually take place away from the light of public discourse."
"Kind of like those statements we've seen coming out of the pulpit of Trinity United Methodist Church, also here in Chicago, that are unusual only for their public airing beyond the black social sphere. "
Read the rest of the post here.
Mark,
Thanks for posting these to Sharkforum. Hopefully it will spread the conversation far and wide. I do hope that all is well on your side of the planet.
Yes! This is so important/needs to be discussed. why the lack of culture, Chicago?
p.s.
We have an fun + quick exhibition coming up soon!
On Saturday, July 19, 2008 Golden Age will be hosting:
PDF
A show of commissioned works opening simultaneously around the world.
For the PDF show, the curators, whyandwherefore.
com,
..
asked each of the artists to respond to their medium,
PDFs—specifically how digital work can be infinitely and exactly
reproduced.
Each was also invited to interrogate the idea of
worldwide, collective action—connected to the simultaneous,
international openings.
With work by Fia Backström, Bozidar Brazda, Brian Clifton, Paul
Ramirez Jonas, Rachel Mason, Sean Raspet, Dexter Sinister and Jordan
Wolfson.
Venues as of July 14:
Atkinson Space, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Bastard, Oslo, Norway
Brown Gallery, London, UK
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Golden Age, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Placeholder Gallery, Newhall, CA
Showroom, Hamburg, Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Zurich, Switzerland
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York City, USA
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Y Gallery, Queens, New York City, USA
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