CITYWIDE
2013 November
Practice would like to announce its participation in CITYWIDE: A Collective Exhibition, happening this Fall! For CITYWIDE, Practice presents three projects and events.
1. PICTURE DAY Exhibition
On October 6th, PRACTICE invited every artist and art-worker in Philadelphia for a Picture Day event. The resulting Picture Day photograph will be on view as an exhibition at Mt. Airy Contemporary.
–Opens on Saturday, November 2, from 6-9pm.On view at Mt. Airy Contemporary, November 2 – December 7.
2. Feedback Loop
On view at Practice will be Feedback Loop, a project by Art/Assembly.Feedback Loop is also online at http://www.loop.citywidephilly.com/–Opens on Friday, November 1, from 6-10pm.On view at PRACTICE Gallery, November 1 – 23.
3. The Citywide Life Raft Debate
Practice invites you to attend and vote in the Life Raft Debate, a debate format where eight of the artist collectives in CITYWIDE, in the face of a massive flood, will make the case for their survival, and the audience votes on who will climb aboard the single life raft.–Debate happens at Temple Contemporary, Thursday, November 21st, from 7-9pm.
Joining forces in a massive collaboration this coming November, over 25 artist collectives in Philadelphia are banding together for a cross-collaborative multi-venue exchange to celebrate the impressive population our city has of artist-run entities! This month-long celebration of Philadelphia contemporary art that will include performances, panel discussions, gallery openings, and a publication in a variety of venues across the city. The essence of CITYWIDE is about magnifying individual voices through collective action and we at Practice are thrilled to be a part of this!CITYWIDE is the recipient of a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge grant and is organized collaboratively by Vox Populi, Space 1026, Little Berlin, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Grizzly Grizzly, Marginal Utility, NAPOLEON, Fjord, Mt. Airy Contemporary, Rebekah Templeton, Highwire Gallery, Basekamp, McCartney/Belknap Projects, Practice, The Traction Company, InLiquid, Paradigm Gallery, Magic Pictures, Termite TV Collective, The Soapbox, Title Magazine, The Nicola Midnight St. Claire, Pterodactyl, Art/ Assembly and BYO Print. Spanning from the Callowhill neighborhood on the edge of Center City to West Philly, from Germantown to the Northeast and from South Philly to Kensington, CITYWIDE represents over 200 artists in total!We look forward to keeping you in the loop but we’ll need your help to do so! Please follow this link to sign up on our mailing list for upcoming news about CITYWIDE related events and fundraisers: http://eepurl.com/BKLdz. Our home site for this project is www.citywidephilly.com.Stay in the loop and stay in touch! Visit us at www.citywidephilly.com to hear more!