Summer School: Art, Education + Radical ResistanceABC No Rio in Exile @ PS122 Gallery |
JULY + AUGUST 2022 |
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Opening to the Public Friday, July 15, 1 – 6 pm |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—In partnership with ABC NO RIO IN EXILE, PS122 Gallery is pleased to present Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance. PS122 GALLERY will be activated by events and workshops throughout the duration of the show, with installations changing in concert with these events. open to the public JULY 15 – AUGUST 28, 2022.
Summer School: Art, Education + Radical Resistance focuses on the artist’s role as activist, art as a community organizing tool, and teaching as the sharing of resistant knowledge. Emphasizing the processes of artists participating in public discourse, Summer School examines how support for shared values drives alternative politics and ideas through the arts.
Historically, summer school is a place for remedial education, with the focus on improving skills to prepare students for participation in required curriculum. Offering a different type of remediation, the projects included in Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance are creative in nature and fill a gap left by mainstream histories, governments, educational systems, and other established institutions. In the spirit of community spaces, PS122 Gallery’s exhibition space will be activated by events and workshops throughout the duration of the show, with installations changing in concert with these events.
ABC No Rio frequently explores new ways to organize and implement its projects. Summer School continues this tradition of actively involving participating artists, collectives, and other entities in the planning, organization, and installation of exhibitions. Summer School includes artwork, documentation of past projects, workshops, skill-shares, and other public presentations. All events are free to the public, but may require RSVP. For full calendar, visit: www.abcnorio.org/summerschool
Participating Artists, Collectives, and Organizations
Yasmeen Abdallah, Shiva Addanki, Amplifier Inc., Big Sky Workshop, Beyond Prisons Podcast, Chto Delat, Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, Agata Craftlove/THEMM! & Gregory Sholette, Priyanka Das, Shawn Escarciga, Peter Fend, Kevin Frech, Christina Freeman, Robby Herbst, Interference Archive with Willa Goettling, Mobile Print Power, North Bronx Collective, Octavia Project, Antonio Serna, Gina Peyran Tan, Workers Art Coalition.
Organizers
Yasmeen Abdallah, Vince Carducci, Barrie Cline, Priyanka Das, Steven Englander, Shawn Escarciga, Peter Fend, Christina Freeman, Robby Herbst, David King, Chris McHale, Alan Moore, Arthur Polendo, and Stephen Zacks.
Summer School: Art, Education + Radical Resistance
ABC No Rio in Exile @ PS122 Gallery
JULY + AUGUST 2022
PS122 Gallery
150 First Avenue
New York, NY 10009
Free and Open to the Public, July 15 – August 28, 2022, Friday – Sunday, 1–6pm
Masking and Vaccination Proof Required for Entry
For full calendar, visit: www.abcnorio.org/summerschool
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ABC No Rio in Exile
In 2017, the Lower East Side arts center vacated its building on Rivington Street in advance of construction a new facility. During the construction of its new building, ABC No Rio programs and operations continue “in exile” at other venues and in collaboration with other organizations. ABC No Rio in Exile provides a renewed and focused orientation towards collaborative work that brings us back to our roots — ABC No Rio was founded as a project of the 1970s artist group Collaborative Projects — and in “exile” ABC No Rio remains a “place” where people share resources and ideas in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support.
Summer School: Art, Education + Radical Resistance is funded in part by the New York State Council on Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.