Living as Form

Exhibition
Tokio, Japon. Haifa,Israel. Sinaloa, Mexico. Ayang, Outh Corea. Youngstown, Ohio, USA. San Francisco, California, USA. Hong Kong. New York, USA.
2011 - 2014

Living as Form provides a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists’ projects in a large-scale survey exhibition inside the historic Essex Street Market building, features nine new commissions in the surrounding neighborhood, and provides a dynamic online archive of over 350 socially engaged projects.

Basurama have included the work Residuos Urbanos Sólidos (RUS) in the following spaces:

  • The Art and Society Research Center, Tokyo, Japan, November 15, 2014 – November 28, 2014
  • Technion / Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, May 28 – June 28, 2014
  • Artport Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 26, 2013 – March 7, 2014
  • Museo de Arte Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico, November 14, 2013 – February 13, 2014
  • The 4th Anyang Public Art Project, Ayang, South Korea, October 26, 2013 – May 15, 2014
  • McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 7  – November 9, 2012
  • Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California, April 17 – November 9, 2012
  • Videotage, Hong Kong, March 1 – May 10, 2012
  • Essex street market, New York, 24th of September and the 16th of October,2011.

Nato Thompson is the curator of the Exhibition. You can read the statement here or watch the presentation

http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/curator_statement.htm