Since an introductory panel held in January 2013 at the DLD – Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, 89plus has conducted research in Australia with Kaldor Public Art Projects, in Hong Kong with Art Basel’s Salon series, in New York as part of the MoMA PS1 Colony, and in Italy with the Innovation Festival, Bolzano-Bozen. Other events include the 89plus Conference, which took place in Venice on September 5 2013 at Palazzo Grassi, and the 89plus Marathon on October 18 and 19 2013 at London’s Serpentine Galleries, bringing emerging practitioners from all disciplines together with world renowned artists and thinkers. 89plus has developed a series of residencies with various partners internationally, including the Park Avenue Armory in New York and the Tara Oceans Polar Circle Expedition.
Marked by several paradigm-shifting events, the year 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the start of the post-Cold War period; the introduction of the World Wide Web and the beginning of the universal availability of the Internet, as well as the orbit of the first Global Positioning System satellite. Positing a relationship between these world-changing events and creative production at large, 89plus introduces the work of some of this generation’s most inspiring protagonists.
Since an introductory panel held in January 2013 at the DLD – Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, 89plus has conducted research in Australia with Kaldor Public Art Projects, in Hong Kong with Art Basel’s Salon series, and in New York as part of the MoMA PS1 Colony. In partnership with the Park Avenue Armory in New York, 89plus has selected visual artist and curator Alex Dolan to be artist-in-residence during the Armory’s Under Construction series, taking place in September 2013. Other events include the 89plus Conference, which took place in Venice on September 5 2013 at Palazzo Grassi, and on October 18 and 19 2013, the 89plus Marathon will be presented at London’s Serpentine Gallery during Frieze Art Fair, bringing emerging practitioners from all disciplines together with world-renowned artists and thinkers. In November 2013, several creative practitioners selected by 89plus will undertake a residency aboard the Tara Oceans Polar Circle Expedition, and in early 2014, 89plus will hold events in Cape Town as part of Design Indaba.
HEROES
The heroes list was put together by the artists who participated in the introductory panel at DLD (Jan 21.2013). They listed cultural references they are inspired by.
Wiederabdruck
Dieser Text erschien in mehreren Fassungen unter: http://89plus.com/about/ [5.8.2013].
[Dieser Text findet sich im Reader Nr. 1 auf S. 416.]