Basekamp
723 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

TEAM PLAYERS FOR PLAUSIBLE ARTWORLDS

WEEK 1: ART HISTORIES & COLLECTIVITY
January 24 Wednesday. 6-8pm 
The public will be invited to ask about about what art collectives are and how they came about through informal Q&A with writers and artists who are working collectively today. 

TEAM PLAYERS FOR PLAUSIBLE ARTWORLDS
Jan 20 - Mar 24

COLLABORATORS: 
A Constructed World (Torino, Italy); Aharon Amir (Brighton, UK); BASEKAMP (Philadelphia, USA); Center for Getting Ugly (Tampa, USA); C.CRED (London, UK); Democratic Innovation (Copenhagen, Denmark); Institute for Advanced Architecture (NYC, Chicago & LA, USA); Orgacom (Amsterdam, Netherlands & Istanbul, Turkey); Pond (San Francisco, USA); Temporary Services (Chicago, USA); Trinity Session (Johannesburg, South Africa); What, How and for Whom [WHW] (Zagreb, Croatia); Stephen Wright (Paris).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Plausible Artworlds is a multi-phase project initiated by the Philadelphia-based group Basekamp, in collaboration with a self-organized network of international groups and individuals. This network will reach out to involve many others, through a 2-year-long collaborative process, in actively re-imagining the complex cultural systems–the 'artworlds'–that define both the limits and potentials of contemporary art practice. Artists ideas about, and experiments with alternate artworlds will be made accessible through a webisite, publication, and events leading up to a large-scale Convention & Exhibition in 2008. 

PART OF LOCALLY LOCALIZED GRAVITY, ICA PHILADELPHIA
AN ICA CURATED EXHIBITION WITH: 
MATT BAKKOM / BASEKAMP / BLACK FLOOR GALLERY / FRITZ HAEG'S SUNDOWN SCHOOL / LTTR / LURE / RED76 / SPACE1026

UPCOMING WEEKLY EVENTS:
\WEEK 2: CONSTRUCTING SPACES
February 3 Saturday. 3-5pm
Help the Plausible Artworlds Team re-imagine/re-assemble their physical space at the ICA through presentations and discussions on experimental, communal architecture and other supportive structures in art

WEEK 3: SUPPORT, SERVICE & CIRCULATION OF WILL
February 7 Wednesday. 6-8pm
Invited artists will give presentations on the increasingly multifaceted role of the artist as someone who not only makes work, but also often functions as a curator and administrator. 

February 10 Saturday. 3-5pm
Role Playing! Visitors will swap places with artists, collectors, and curators to learn about the activities that take place behind the scenes of an exhibition.

WEEK 4: SPEAKING RADICALLY: RE-ENACTMENTS & PRE-ENACTMENTS
February 14 Wednesday. 6-8pm
Re-enactments and RADICAL play! Using clips from Godard and other filmmakers, participants will act out scenarios based on filmed moments in 1960s and 1970s radical history.

WEEK 5: LEARNING & COLLECTIVE RESEARCH AS AESTHETIC ACTIVITY
February 21 Wednesday. 6-8pm
The Philadelphia Survival School Reading Group. Explore how economies infiltrate and form our lives and future worlds. Invited participants will give presentations and lead discussions. No need to read the book.

February 24 Saturday. 12-2pm
Kids Read & Draw: How do kids encourage collectivity and creative action? Explore stories and poems about participating in the way the world is shaped. All welcome! Bring kids! We will provide books and drawing materials.

WEEK 6: ARCHIVES & ORGANIZATION
March 3 Saturday. 3-5pm
Game night! Develop new or different categories—different than those traditionally used by museums—to describe groupings of objects. Artists and participants will discuss preservation, obsolescence, and memory.

WEEK 7: ART & ACTIVISM: A POLITICAL PLAYING FIELD
March 10 Saturday. 3-5pm
Workshop - Using Shell Oil's Trilemma scenarios as our script, together we will run through some of these as participatory games, as a way of developing principles and strategies for determining our own futures.

WEEK 8: ORIGINALITY & COLLABORATION
March 14 Wednesday. 6-9pm
Game night! We will play a memory game about similarities in contemporary art to try to determine what standards or ideas might be used to evaluate collaboratively produced art. 

WEEK 9: REVIEW OF LLG EXHIBITION & PREVIEW OF PAW CONVENTION
March 24 Saturday. 3-5pm
The Plausible Artworlds Team hosts a party and discussion about the development of their upcoming exhibition and convention.

SEE YOU THERE!