The Hyde Park Art Center will be facilitating an exhibition that explores social/cultural gatherings and their venues with the objective of encouraging new forms of engagement between artists, art institutions and communities.
Close Encounters will begin May 15th, 2008, with a traditional Māori gathering, called a hui, in which artists will discuss how place, art, and community can intersect. The project is curated by Chuck Thurow, Executive Director of the Hyde Park Art Center, and Bruce E. Phillips, an independent curator from New Zealand. They have selected four artists from New Zealand and four artists from the U.S. who will develop projects inspired by the hui discussions that will be shown at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2009 - 2010.
For more information, check out the exhibition page here.
Additional Information on all the participating artists can be found here. Download file
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