WHAT’S NOT THERE
A reciprocal project curated by BerdsCarnival + NYC artist, Ryan Compton, in collaboration with Reciprocal Communiqué, 2024
You’re a volunteer, you’re a creator, you’re a maker, and you’re a doer. The most important thing is to volunteer.” - Ojo of Coney Island
What’s Not There is an experimental platform that seeks to challenge artists to explore ways to decentralize and disseminate their ideas about art and culture, specific to the area in which they live. The goal is to reach audiences in boroughs and neighborhoods outside the traditional cultural matrix of New York City. By inverting our perspective and examining the crevices of our immediate surroundings we expand the cultural arena, embrace our communities and fortify the unseen.
For this first iteration we have invited 8 artists of all disciplines, professional levels, and locales to submit a site-specific proposal particular to the neighborhood where they live. The final piece will be exhibited as a zine. A zine launch will be held in an uncommon space, this summer.
Occupy Museums, 7th Berlin Biennale, Kunst Werke Gallery (KW), Berlin Germany
2012, Location in photo: Pergamon Museum
OCCUPY MUSEUMS
Initiated in 2012 by Noah Fischer
The group was initiated from the Occupy Wall Street Arts and Culture working Group in Liberty Park by artist Noah Fischer. After the first action at Museum of Modern Art, it quickly became a working group which has included many people at different times including Jolanta Gora-Witta (who built this site), Max Liboroirn, Maraya Lopez, Alexandre Carvalho, Blithe Riley, Andrea Liu, Maria Byck, Ben Laude, Cari Machet, Nitasha Dhillon, Joulia Strauss, and Maureen Connor, Kenneth Pietrobono, and many others. The core members (in alphabetical order) are Tal Beery, Imani Brown, Noah Fischer, Kenneth Pietrobono and Arthur Polendo
We have also collaborated and overlapped with many other groups such as G.U.L.F, the Novads, Arts and Labor, Occupy the Pipeline, Winter Holiday Camp, and artists such as The Guerrilla Girls, Artur Zmijewski, Pawel Althamer, Maureen Connor, Julia Strauss, and William Powhida. – Noah Fischer