Participating Artists: Constantin Basica, Keith DeNatale, Finishing School, The Happy Valley Band, Liz Harvey, Kelsey Leib, Naming Gallery, Nolan Lem, Alyssa Lempesis, Listings Project, malocculsion, Jessie Marino, Victor Mavedzenge, Ann Schnake of MobileInTent, Renetta Sitoy, Stacian, Laura Steenberge, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Zebra and others.
The pervasive inside/outside dynamic in our cultural, artistic, and social spheres is an imposed reality, created by our economic and ideological structures. Artists Live Here attempts to subvert this dynamic by giving art back to the public. Similar to the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, Artists Live Here endeavors to refocus the importance of that art, which draws directly from daily life, life on the street, in the house, and around the artists’ studio, than art, which originates and exists solely within the framework of the academy.
In this project, the belly of the beast – the artist studio – is stripped of it’s material walls and physical address. The studio is brought from the inside to the outside and positioned right in front of Oakland’s City Hall at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Passersby from all walks of life can gain full and free access to the contemporary artistic process. This unique form of immediate, impetuous interaction between artist and audience creates a new space that Pro Arts defines as the in-between space. The in-between space rejects hierarchy and the norms of artist-viewer politics and instead promotes a “rhizome” structure of art engagement, in which there are multiple, non-hierarchical access points to ideas that bring attention to the power dynamics between private and public, official and unofficial, artist and audience, art institutions and artist, and art institutions and audience.
It is important to acknowledge the audience’s subjectivity in relation to the context in which Pro Arts presents the fourteen site-specific installations. For some, the name of the project refers to the vibrancy of our local art scene. For others, the temporality of the nomadic studio structures may appear unsettling. To us, the importance of this project lies in the fact that audience experiences and reactions are not mediated by Pro Arts and have thus the potentiality to remain autonomous. We believe that our institutional responsibility is to empower people through the vehicle of art. To that extent, we offer openness in our institutional practice and in our curatorial vision, which in turn creates an alternative space in which artists and audience come together, as one.
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The pervasive inside/outside dynamic in our cultural, artistic, and social spheres is an imposed reality, created by our economic and ideological structures. Artists Live Here attempts to subvert this dynamic by giving art back to the public. Similar to the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, Artists Live Here endeavors to refocus the importance of that art, which draws directly from daily life, life on the street, in the house, and around the artists’ studio, than art, which originates and exists solely within the framework of the academy.
In this project, the belly of the beast – the artist studio – is stripped of it’s material walls and physical address. The studio is brought from the inside to the outside and positioned right in front of Oakland’s City Hall at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Passersby from all walks of life can gain full and free access to the contemporary artistic process. This unique form of immediate, impetuous interaction between artist and audience creates a new space that Pro Arts defines as the in-between space. The in-between space rejects hierarchy and the norms of artist-viewer politics and instead promotes a “rhizome” structure of art engagement, in which there are multiple, non-hierarchical access points to ideas that bring attention to the power dynamics between private and public, official and unofficial, artist and audience, art institutions and artist, and art institutions and audience.
It is important to acknowledge the audience’s subjectivity in relation to the context in which Pro Arts presents the fourteen site-specific installations. For some, the name of the project refers to the vibrancy of our local art scene. For others, the temporality of the nomadic studio structures may appear unsettling. To us, the importance of this project lies in the fact that audience experiences and reactions are not mediated by Pro Arts and have thus the potentiality to remain autonomous. We believe that our institutional responsibility is to empower people through the vehicle of art. To that extent, we offer openness in our institutional practice and in our curatorial vision, which in turn creates an alternative space in which artists and audience come together, as one.
Participating Artists: Constantin Basica, Keith DeNatale, Finishing School, The Happy Valley Band, Liz Harvey, Kelsey Leib, Naming Gallery, Nolan Lem, Alyssa Lempesis, Listings Project, malocculsion, Jessie Marino, Victor Mavedzenge, Ann Schnake of MobileInTent, Renetta Sitoy, Stacian, Laura Steenberge, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Zebra and others.
The pervasive inside/outside dynamic in our cultural, artistic, and social spheres is an imposed reality, created by our economic and ideological structures. Artists Live Here attempts to subvert this dynamic by giving art back to the public. Similar to the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, Artists Live Here endeavors to refocus the importance of that art, which draws directly from daily life, life on the street, in the house, and around the artists’ studio, than art, which originates and exists solely within the framework of the academy.
In this project, the belly of the beast – the artist studio – is stripped of it’s material walls and physical address. The studio is brought from the inside to the outside and positioned right in front of Oakland’s City Hall at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Passersby from all walks of life can gain full and free access to the contemporary artistic process. This unique form of immediate, impetuous interaction between artist and audience creates a new space that Pro Arts defines as the in-between space. The in-between space rejects hierarchy and the norms of artist-viewer politics and instead promotes a “rhizome” structure of art engagement, in which there are multiple, non-hierarchical access points to ideas that bring attention to the power dynamics between private and public, official and unofficial, artist and audience, art institutions and artist, and art institutions and audience.
It is important to acknowledge the audience’s subjectivity in relation to the context in which Pro Arts presents the fourteen site-specific installations. For some, the name of the project refers to the vibrancy of our local art scene. For others, the temporality of the nomadic studio structures may appear unsettling. To us, the importance of this project lies in the fact that audience experiences and reactions are not mediated by Pro Arts and have thus the potentiality to remain autonomous. We believe that our institutional responsibility is to empower people through the vehicle of art. To that extent, we offer openness in our institutional practice and in our curatorial vision, which in turn creates an alternative space in which artists and audience come together, as one.
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The pervasive inside/outside dynamic in our cultural, artistic, and social spheres is an imposed reality, created by our economic and ideological structures. Artists Live Here attempts to subvert this dynamic by giving art back to the public. Similar to the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, Artists Live Here endeavors to refocus the importance of that art, which draws directly from daily life, life on the street, in the house, and around the artists’ studio, than art, which originates and exists solely within the framework of the academy.
In this project, the belly of the beast – the artist studio – is stripped of it’s material walls and physical address. The studio is brought from the inside to the outside and positioned right in front of Oakland’s City Hall at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Passersby from all walks of life can gain full and free access to the contemporary artistic process. This unique form of immediate, impetuous interaction between artist and audience creates a new space that Pro Arts defines as the in-between space. The in-between space rejects hierarchy and the norms of artist-viewer politics and instead promotes a “rhizome” structure of art engagement, in which there are multiple, non-hierarchical access points to ideas that bring attention to the power dynamics between private and public, official and unofficial, artist and audience, art institutions and artist, and art institutions and audience.
It is important to acknowledge the audience’s subjectivity in relation to the context in which Pro Arts presents the fourteen site-specific installations. For some, the name of the project refers to the vibrancy of our local art scene. For others, the temporality of the nomadic studio structures may appear unsettling. To us, the importance of this project lies in the fact that audience experiences and reactions are not mediated by Pro Arts and have thus the potentiality to remain autonomous. We believe that our institutional responsibility is to empower people through the vehicle of art. To that extent, we offer openness in our institutional practice and in our curatorial vision, which in turn creates an alternative space in which artists and audience come together, as one.
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