Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Version 10

It's time once again for the annual multidisciplinary art showcase known as Version Fest.  Being held in Bridgeport and other parts of Chicago, there's always something great to check out at one of their events. Info from their site...

April 22 to May 2, 2010
For eleven days and nights, we will explore the best practices and boldest failures in interventionist, participatory, collective social, political, and cultural practices. This year's theme is presented in order to bring together groups and individuals seeking additional methods for the practice of art, education and social activism well into the next decade. We want to use this opening during the current economic and political crisis to amplify our shared ideals, values and strategies.


Join us to amplify micro-movements and nowtopian ideas!


The festival will include: historical re-enactments, antiwar organizing, Version tv shows, an art parade, an artist-run art expo, a catalog of interventionist strategies, networking between independent groups and spaces, inflatable art, one-night exhibition formats, Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-Together projects, the Tech Noir Bar, a mobile silkscreen printing cart, artist granting projects, a national WPA-inspired public poster project, a free school, impressive musical performances, boring theoretical nonsense, mapping projects, pop-up galleries, Korean/Polish BBQ and more!


Full schedule and list of venues is posted at www.versionfest.org

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