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GALLERY IS OPEN WEDS-SAT 12-5PM | OFFICES ARE OPEN MON-FRI, 9-5PM
September 11 - October 23, 2009
An Institute for Situated Practices
Bbob Drake (Cleveland, OH), Tom Orange (Cleveland, OH), Sarah Paul, Lucy Raven (New York, NY), Kristin Rogers (newsense projects), Maria Samuelson (Lakewood, OH), Deborah Stratman (Chicago, IL), Peter Tabor (Cleveland, OH)
Part of R&D
installation view (detail)
Throw away the canvas. Let the brushes dry out. Grab a #2 pencil (but you may not need it). This fall, SPACES will be host to The Plum Academy: An Institute for Situated Practices, an experimental school. Rather than house a traditional exhibition of objects, SPACES is choosing to organize a school-as-exhibition. Concepts and ideas will take the forefront, rather than materials, styles and conventional aesthetics. Specially selected facilitators from the regional community and beyond will lead forums that approach topics obliquely, find unique entry points to ideas and challenge the established structures of education. (To assist in taking a different look at education, we use the terms "forum" and "facilitator" rather than "class" and "teacher", respectively.)
Forum subjects will be unexpected. The student-teacher relationship will be questioned and the school itself will function as a large, collaborative performance.
Forum subjects will be unexpected. The student-teacher relationship will be questioned and the school itself will function as a large, collaborative performance.
This is not an "art school" per se. We are not offering art classes. We do offer a variety of forums that tackle contemporary thought on a number of topics and disciplines-that challenge traditional educational systems, are out-of-the-ordinary, outrageous, educational and entertaining. Forums will be solo presentations, workshops, open discussions, field trips, etc.
Bbob Drake
bbob drake has been creating experimental music and audio in Cleveland for the last 45 years. From a start as a guitarist, his current focus is on electro-acoustic improvisation in both solo and group settings. His solo work spans a range from "lowercase" or "onkyokei" aesthetics (quiet, minimalist, abstract), to... go to artist page
Tom Orange
Sarah Paul
Sarah Paul is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio, working across material, video, sound, and emerging media practices. Her work is informed by a background in mathematics and computer science and focuses on system-based approaches to art and design, spanning structural textiles, experimental video, installation, and performance. Paul’s... go to artist page
Lucy Raven
Lucy Raven is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at art and film spaces internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, Mass MoCA, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Overgaden, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Recent work, including her... go to artist page
Kristin Rogers (newsense projects)
Kristin Rogers (aka newsense projects) is an artist, writer, and curator based in the Cleveland area. His work(s) in these three disciplines appears in a variety of venues and contexts and his practice seeks to overlap and blur their characteristics-treating all three as coequal modes of invention and making. Rogers... go to artist page
Maria Samuelson
Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems - and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. Many of her films point to the relationships... go to artist page
Peter Tabor
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22, 25, 45, and 51 all also stop nearby at West 25 and Detroit.
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