About this Event
In Memorium: Lessons Learned From The Footsteps We Follow
Track: “Have You Seen the ___?”: Memory and Collective Spaces
Presented by AUTOMAT
This panel brings together organizers of Philadelphia’s DIY and artist-run spaces to reflect on spaces that have closed, changed form, what they made possible, and what they left behind. Through stories of triumphs and struggles, participants will consider how Philadelphia’s arts landscape has changed, what gaps remain, and what lessons might be useful to those continuing to build artist-run spaces today. This talk will explore the labor and care of building DIY spaces and how we can create sustainability for the places and people that make them happen. Featuring Libby Rosa (PEEP), Kristen Neville Taylor (Little Berlin), and Heather Bowlan (Small Works).
About the Facilitators
- Libby Rosa (PEEP)
- Kristen Neville Taylor (Little Berlin)
- Heather Bowlan (Small Works)
ABOUT PARALLEL PLAY
The Parallel Play Symposium, presented as part of the six-week Collective Futures festival, is a two-day gathering of artists, scholars, organizers, and cultural workers exploring the practices, histories, and conditions that sustain collective cultural production. Through free panels, workshops, and performative presentations, participants will examine the cultural significance of collective art-making and artist-run spaces while sharing strategies for building and maintaining collaborative cultural infrastructures.
Organized around thematic tracks—including How To: Collective Tools & Tactics, Relational Infrastructures, Precarious Solidarities, “Have You Seen the ___?”: Memory and Collective Spaces, and Playground: Place, Ecology & Entanglement—the symposium will feature workshops, panels, performances, and conversations presented by ATUOMAT Collective, Luster Gallery + Studio, Obvious Agency, Vox Populi, Termite TV Collective, All Mutable, FORTUNE, FJORD, Big Ramp, Da Vinci Art Alliance, cinéSPEAK, Practice Gallery, and many other collaborators.
Registration is required for each session.
Event venue & nearby stays
Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, United States
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