OCCUPY #3 - NETWORKS
In 2022, IA Curatorial Collective teamed up with Radiator Arts to participate in a new research project and exhibition project by ARCATHENS in New York.
Artist networks were asked to create a map of initiatives and to promote art networks that question, explore and create new paradigms in contemporary and public art.
With the goal of demonstrating how networks are interdependent and how as actors of the arts we inhabit our time and nourish our work with the responsibilities that are born specifically from our presence within communities, from our universal need of belonging and sharing.
The project highlighted initiatives responding to socio-political change and activism, community-based and public art projects, demonstrate how the hierarchy in the art community is shifting, and create accessibility for artistic minorities.
The objectives of Occupy Art Project and of this research groups are:
- To structure or to highlight dialogue within the art community and networks
- To maintain movement in creativity while identifying activist and social initiatives and break isolation for artists who face adversity
- To create open dialogue over public policies
- To experiment new paradigms and work models that promote and empower cooperation in the arts rather than a patriarchal model in culture
- To explore public art as a method, its different forms, how we can occupy public and administrative space
- To respond to social issues highlighted by the pandemic explore new work models which change the paradigms of structure in the arts
- How communities can be the actors of cultural development
- What is artistic citizenship.
Radiator and Integrated Aesthetics Curator : Daniela Kostova
Artists: Eun Young Choi, Eva Davidova, Tamas Veszi, Ketta Ioannidou, Jeremiah Teipen