FEEDBACKLOOP

FEEDBACKLOOP is an online hub, designed to act as a forum for discussion and commentary on the many CITYWIDE Philadelphia exhibitions and events happening throughout November 2013. It was created to promote active discussion and critique between artists and curators, and their audience.

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“At One and the Same Time: An Exploration of Poetry and Art.” Highwire will exhibit a selection of its member artwork at The Soapbox’s space at 741 S. 51st Street in Philadelphia. The guests at the exhibit will be encouraged to write poetry in response to the artwork on display. In collaboration with Highwire Gallery, The Soapbox will create a zine from this poetry and distribute it during the exhibition. The creation of poetry inspired by art – and art inspired by poetry – will continue through December at The Soapbox.

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Visual Effigy 2008-2013 at VOX POPULI, a selection of videos by David Dempewolf of Marginal Utility. Since 2008 David Dempewolf has been producing videos that simulate perceived stereoscopic vision and mental imagery. These videos portray daydreams, sheets of memory, and moments of reverie. Through a stuttering investigation of phenomenology, the poetry of Paul Celan and the inherited legacy of American experimental film, Dempewolf has been attempting to force the moving image to mimic the processes of thought. These investigations will be presented in three video reels.

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What Comes of It at BYOprint the work of Jason Chen and Sara McCorriston of Paradigm Gallery & Studio. Jason and Sara are BYO Print's first Artists - In - Residence! This show will highlight the work completed during their A.I.R. and anticipate projects to come in the future.

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SURVEYS a video installation that chronicles the 22 year history of Termite TV Collective at VOX POPULI

Termite TV is a video collective that has been producing experimental and activist media for over 20 years in Philadelphia and beyond! The Collective facilitates the creation of media that challenges the status quo and provides an alternative to corporate media. Termite work has been broadcast nationally on television and screened at MOMA, and at festivals and museums worldwide.

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B-Sides GrizzlyGrizzly at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art Ruth Scott Blackson, Jacque Liu, Michael Konrad, Mary Smull, Cindy Stockton Moore and Josh Weiss with Audio Guide by Peter Crimmins Josh & Jacque Mary & Cindy Mike & Ruth

Every so often, the members of Grizzly Grizzly have the opportunity to show our own work together. This is always an exciting opportunity, but we, as members of a curatorial collective, struggle with the context of these group exhibitions. Do we show together only because we curate together? Should we have an overarching conceptual agenda? How will we make the work not look like a faculty show? One of the things that make Grizzly Grizzly's programming exciting is that our membership is diverse, and not limited to one aesthetic or agenda; that makes for a challenge when organizing shows of our own work.

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As first as exactlyAn exhibition by NAPOLEON members @ TRACTION COMPANY Marc Blumthal & Alexis Nutini, Lewis Colburn & Tamsen Wojtanowski, Liza Coviello & Leslie Friedman, Christina P. Day & Christopher Hartshorne, and Jordan Rockford & H. John Thompson The ten members of NAPOLEON divided into pairs in order to create new work for our CITYWIDE exhibition.  The work is inspired by the poem If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein and was produced by means of call-and-response, collaboration, and combination.

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Practice Gallery: Picture Dayat Mt Airy Contemporary arts

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MAGIC PICTURES AT VOX POPULI:Phil Cote, Lindsey Dickson, KATE FERENCZ, Ben Furgal, Alessandro Keegan, Abbey Lee Sarver, Jennifer Sullivan

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TRACTION COMPANY: subTRACTIONA collaborative installation that figuratively brings TRACTION COMPANY to NAPOLEON subTRACTION is TRACTION COMPANY’s first collaborative sculptural project, a one-sixth scale model of the collective’s gargantuan sculpture shop. Inspired by CITYWIDE’s celebration of collaboration, subTRACTION represents in miniature the fruit of six years of collective effort—the ongoing transformation of a former trolley manufacturing warehouse into a fully equipped hub of artistic activity. Conceived of and constructed by TRACTION COMPANY’s 13 members, subTRACTION invites viewers to encounter the facility’s shared studios, tools, and detritus on an intimate, personal level.

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‘Making Eyes’ at Grizzly Grizzly A collaborative exhibition by Sarah Eberle and Ben Will of Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art GrizzlyGrizzly

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North by Northwest at MARGINAL UTILITY, curated by Mount Airy Contemporary Art

Andrea HornickOdili Odita Josh Weiss Talia Greene Andrea Whol Keefe Laura Watt Brent Wahl Abbey Ryan Daniel Oliva

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The Soapbox Reading Room at Highwire Gallery

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Chorus Effect at FJORD a Tiger Strikes Asteroid & FJORD Collaboration

Curated by Tabitha Piseno

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Fort Thunder Attaks…Again!at Space 1026

This exhibition and series of programs was conceived of by a group of Vox Populi’s member artists as a reworking of a 1998 exhibition presented at Space 1026 by the Providence based collective Fort Thunder. Vox Populi proposed recreating an exhibition from Space 1026’s archive they felt “defined them,” and Space 1026 chose Fort Thunder Attaks!.

ARTISTS: Gary (GayWee), Dick Moccasin, jpëgg, Snuggleuptogus, Mixed White, SamE,Lentls, Hannibal Saint Clarice, noname,and Pudgie

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Chorus Effect at TSA a Fjord & Tiger Strikes Asteroid Collaboration Curated by Tabitha Piseno

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Afterlife is a collaborative installation that transfers the everyday lives of Space 1026′s collective members into the eternal space after death. In a brief, blissful act of existential reinvention, the 1026ers spark a torch of ancient burial practices with the construction of a monumental shrine devoted to and comprised of artwork by its current and former members. Afterlife represents a continuation of the collective’s 16 year commitment to providing open space where a creative individual is free to work and make mistakes, in addition to the collective’s long standing comic appreciation for human error, second chances, and the opportunity for spiritual rebirth.

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CITYWIDE Meet & Greet @ the PMA

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART Wednesday, November 6:530pm to 9pm

This November, more than twenty-five artist-run entities will create collaborative exhibitions, projects, and programming in a variety of venues across Philadelphia. A monthlong celebration of Philadelphia contemporary art, CITYWIDE will include performances, panel discussions, gallery exchange openings, and a publication. The essence of CITYWIDE is about magnifying individual voices through collective action. Join us at the Museum for a meet-and-greet with members from the participating art collectives, who will introduce you to their programming and artistic and/or curatorial mission as well as speak about the different collaborative projects happening within the CITYWIDE project.

http://www.philamuseum.org/calendarEvents/calendar.html