Experience Economies is closed for the season. We are taking time and space apart for other projects and non-projects, but hope you will check back in with us in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, the curious among you should feel free to scan over our past events here.
Image by Gavin Kroeber.
Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill will be participating in the “Town & Country II” session at Mildred’s Lane this summer, leading workshops and presenting on June 22 and 23.
The larger session runs June 18, 2012 - July 8, 2012, and will also feature Hope Ginsburg, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Jane Marsching, Deadskin Press (Megan O’Connell and Leon Johnson), Stephanie Smith and others to be announced soon.
As our friends at Mildred’s Lane put it: “This session focuses on the complex relationship between the city and the countryside by investigating the place the rural world occupies in the projections, fantasies, economy, and antagonism of the cosmopolitan set. This dialectic is responsible for a cultural production as diverse as the invention of Adirondack style, the formation of 60’s communes, “Urban Cowboy” and the new urban garden movement. The goal of this session is to critique and move beyond the cultural illusions which promote the city and the country as disconnected realms of experience.”
For more on Mildred’s Lane and the session, visit mildredslane.com
Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill recently sat down with Robert Moeller of Art New England to talk about Experience Economies’ founding story, our creative methodologies, and the amazing spatio-temporal charts of ExEc volunteer Max Roberts-Zirker. Read it here.
Experience Economies 6: Innovate or Die
Experience Economies 6: Innovate or Die
Experience Economies 6: Innovate or Die
Why innovate?
On February 18, from 5-10pm, Experience Economies will present an event asking this very question. As 2011-2012 Cultural Producers in Residence at the Laboratory at Harvard, we are organizing a participatory tour of Boston’s innovation landscape. This multimedia and multi-venue event will bring audiences inside the doors of some of the region’s visionary ventures, foundations, and research laboratories, engines at the leading edge of the emergent innovation economy. Each stop has been paired with artworks, performances, presentations and other surprise events exploring innovation – how it is conceptualized, pursued and lived in Boston and Cambridge, now and historically.
Experience Economies 6: Innovate or Die will include presentations by area artists Kelly Sherman and Catherine McMahon, New York City-based artist Mary Walling Blackburn, historian of science Jeremy Blatter, and a number of surprise guests.
Tickets are limited. Each $10 ticket reserves one seat, plus food and drink services throughout the course of the evening. Ticket sales will open to the public on Tuesday, January 31st at 12pm and may be purchased through a link on The Lab’s website: thelaboratory.harvard.edu.
Supported in Part By:
The Laboratory at Harvard
The Berwick Research Institute’s Final Berwick Artist Grants
The Idea Translation Lab @ Cloud Place
Continuum
The Harvard i-lab
The Industry Lab
EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES 4: CHAMBER PLAY
Held throughout the historical parlours and back rooms of the Signet Society in Cambridge, MA, ExEc4 featured performance lectures, guided conversations and sing-alongs by artists Theaster Gates, Ian Wojtowicz, John Hulsey and Tomashi Jackson, and physicist/storyteller Ben Lillie. Themes ranged from art history and race to the everyday experience of science to the politics of artificial scarcity. Gates’s presentation was accompanied by an “academic chorus” comprised of Martha Buskirk, Peter Galison, Caroline Jones, Robert Moeller and Niko Vicario. Featuring James Hurley on piano.
EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES 3: EVIL TWIN
Featuring Berlin-based artist David Levine’s CHARACTER ANALYSIS #3, for which 2 professional actors attempted to assume the character of audience members that they had just met. Punctuating a 3-hour dinner, the actors were interviewed by Levine, selected subjects from the audience, interviewed the audience subjects in front of the audience, and ultimately took questions from the audience in character. A third actor attended the event in character and was revealed at the end of the night. ExEc3 was held at Spectacle, a programming space and live-work studio in Boston’s Chinatown.
EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES 2: CLASS WARFARE
Featuring Caitlin Berrigan’s work-in-progress Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, the evening included both a vastly complex sociological survey for the audience and a cathartic food fight in which participants’ actions were determined in part by their socio-economic status. ExEc2 was held at Meme Gallery in Cambridge, where the detritus of the event was left on display after-the-fact.
