September 18 – October 11: Other Options

Date: September 18 - October 11
Opening: Thurs., Sept. 18, 6PM, with a presentation by Geraldine Juárez
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free

Other Options is a series of exhibitions and public programs that investigates the ways in which artists are dealing with the current climate of support for cultural production. By increasingly incorporating new models of resource allocation, community building, funding structures, and forms of exchange as integral to their artistic production, these artists are creating new possibilities for the role of contemporary art in an everyday context. Other Options is a traveling series that began in 2007 and comes to Eyebeam after stops in Chicago; Grand Rapids, MI; Pittsburgh; and Syracuse).

The show includes work by: Forays, Josh Greene, Material Exchange, Mikey Merrill, Phil Orr and Ryan Thompson, ReTool, Joanna Spitzner, and Geraldine Juárez.

Related events:

• » Sept. 19: Panel | Artist as Foundation: Giving it Away

• Panelists: Josh Greene, Service-Works; Geraldine Juárez, Tanda Foundation; Joanna Spitzner, JS Foundation. Moderated by Abigail Satinsky and Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE and Sunday Soup Granting Fund. Followed by the Anti-Advertising Agency (Anne Elizabeth Moore and Eyebeam
  senior fellow Steve Lambert) Foundation for Freedom 2008 Award ceremony and after-party, just in time for New York Ad Week!

• » Oct. 4: Screening of FOOD + talk by Nato Thompson
• » Oct. 11: Closing reception + (RE) auction

This exhibition is possible thanks to the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York: http://www.lavitrina.com

Curated by InCUBATE: http://www.incubate-chicago.org/otheroptions