🌳 FINAL CALL for Urban Dreamers, Gaming Visionaries, Disability Future Shapers & Community Catalysts!
join us in creating small-scale utopias that serve as models for broader change. 🌳
🔸 Jump to Fellowship Guidelines : Utopian Practice | Black Utopian | Disability Arts
We invite dreamers 🎩, makers🧵, and change-agents👒 based in New York City to join us in the vital work of imagining and creating utopias.
Culture Push’s newest Disability Arts Curatorial Fellowship supports the processes of cultivating and testing new ideas through civic engagement and co-thinking, thinking through emergent disability cultural strategies like access as art or creative accessibility, growing your disability centered curatorial voice into a curatorial statement, and making viable plans for sparking more emergent disability culture in the arts. The Fellowship supports the processes of thinking through and pulling together an accessible exhibition. While we do not offer a specific exhibition opportunity, we will help the Fellow in finding opportunities. Review Guidelines.
This year’s Black Utopian Fellowship call challenges innovators to envision and create the world we aspire to see — more accessible, inclusive, and engaging. We aim to highlight the transformative potential of technology, focusing on the intersection of design, applied sciences, and storytelling In the burgeoning digital age. We explore the foundations of analog play as a launch pad for pioneering ideas. We are interested in projects that encompass instances of civic engagement and unprecedented leadership. As long as you have an open mind - you can create your body.We encourage artists and visionary thinkers to seize this opportunity to pioneer transformative projects at the forefront of gaming, design, and storytelling. Together, let’s carve out paths toward a more inclusive and accessible world through The Black Utopian Fellowship. Review Guidelines.
The Fellowship is a process-based program aimed at artists and other creative people who are seeking to test new ideas through civic engagement. The Fellowship for Utopian Practice is a testing ground for new ideas that connect artistic practice, civic engagement, and social justice. Through the Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push serves artists by providing creative, analytical, and logistical tools in the creation of truly transformative projects. Review Guidelines.
The Fellowship program is open to artists and other professionals working in any discipline who wish to expand the boundaries of their practice. Culture Push offers the Fellows concrete financial and institutional support, including feedback and mentoring, a stipend, and fiscal sponsorship for fundraising efforts, and heightened legibility, through support from the Culture Push institution. During the Fellowship year, Fellows collaborate with different communities and the Culture Push staff to find viable working methods for realizing ambitious hybrid projects.
🧡 News from our Fellows
Oct 5: Culture Push Fellow Xinan Helen Ran (Xenoduo) is performing in Union Square at the opening celebration of “Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker”.
Focused around Union Square, a cross-roads for many from diverse walks of life in the city, this project features video activations of the ubiquitous LinkNYC screens that will focus on the critical situation of recently arrived migrants in New York City.
On October 5th, 1-5pm, Mobile Home travels to Union Square for a one-day-only appearance. Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker marks the opening of Coco Fusco's public kiosk project, accompanied by XenoDuo's performance inside Mobile Home, Noah Fisher's New York 2044 newspaper release, and a musical performance by Reverend Billy Talen & the Stop Shopping Choir. The project is supported by More Art.
Culture Push Fellow Zain Alam is showing work at Recess’ Session this October.
When: October 5 - November 23, 2024
Where: Recess, 46 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
During Session, the artist and his collaborators will be producing Meter & Light: Night, a 3-channel audiovisual installation which enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset. These rhythms are inherent to rituals such as prayers marking last light, sleepless recitations for the Night of Power, retreat to sacred shrines, the forgiveness of debts, and the breaking bread for all to share at dawn.
This is the second part of a series of installation works investigating the senses of time as lived in practice by Muslims. Drawing upon the artist’s formal training in Islamic studies, personal experience in the Sufi tradition, and as a composer, the installation depicts the cyclical measures used to mark the passage of light, seasons, and spiritual revelation. Time, in Muslim life, rests on the judgments of individual human perception rather than any supreme authority. Poets and philosophers in the tradition have written on how this cyclical, spiraling sense of time underpins—and provides a connecting thread to—the structure of Muslim art from Bengal to the Balkans.
Life and death are marked by a whisper into the ear of a newborn or recently departed. Ninety-nine rosary beads keep count in reciting the ninety-nine names for the Divine in dhikr meditation. Daily prayers are marked by the five (or three) positions of the sun in the sky. The Ramadan month of fasting, from dawn to dusk, is delineated from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next. Meter & Light aims to convene these measures into a single, interlocking experience—compressing a day’s five prayers into a single hour.
🔸 From the CP Community 🔸
UNDOXX - November 7 - 23, 2024
Curated by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan
Censorship of artists in the U.S. is currently a powerful force, yet it is not unprecedented. By bringing together global majority artists, queer artists, marginalized artists who have understood its inner workings for generations, UNDOXX will spark conversation and generate resources for U.S. artists to understand censorship in the arts, its history, and its current evolutions. Making space for artists to learn in community and presenting works by artists being censored is UNDOXX’s primary intervention.
🌎 What do artists need? Our creative partners at KODA are re-visiting this important question.
KODA 5th Professional Development for Artists Symposium
Starting with a focus group on Future of Residencies & Supporting Artistic Vision with Christina Daniels, three comprehensive seminars will follow, each lasting 30 minutes, with 15-minute Q&A. Artist Sari Carel will share her community engagement journey. Artist Rowan Renee, alongside Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects, will share their insights on artist-run residencies with their project Stilt City. Lastly, a session on funding ambitious projects with Brittni Collins will conclude the event.