Linda Frye Burnham / 10:28 AM
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Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet
Charleston SC 29403
June 24, 2008
THE FUTURE IS ON THE TABLE
Community-Based Art Collaboration Opens September 12 at the Gibbes
Museum of Art, September 13 at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston.
Exhibition on View at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park and Gibbes
Museum of Art
(Charleston, SC) ˆ Initiated by Charleston artists Gwylene Gallimard
and Jean-Marie Mauclet, The Future is on the Table is the culmination
of a five-year community art collaboration that began in 2003 when
Gallimard and Mauclet sent 56 handmade three-legged stools as gifts
to artists around the world. The seats of the stools were cut from a
single sheet of marine plywood painted with a map of the world, thus
each stool represented a piece of the global community. The stools
were sent with a proposal to use the arts to generate conversation
about globalization and social justice issues with a focus on water
and shelter as basic human rights. Artists, artisans, and arts
collaboratives who agreed to participate in The Future is on the
Table were challenged to create an object, an installation, a
performance, or other art project in response to these issues. The
diverse array of projects, including artist residencies,
workshops, stone carving, gift exchanges, and others, took place
across the globe in England, France, India, South Africa, and the
United States. They were lead by the Arpan Cooperative / MarketPlace
India, Phinias Chirubvu, Omari Fox, Arianne King Comer, Marcia Kure,
Rajni Shah and Delphine Ziegler.
The Future is on the Table is an art project built on the belief in
the importance of local communities. Its goal is to create an open
dialogue around the metaphorical table referenced by the title of the
project. This is a table around which the local community, as part
of the global community, can gather to share ideas, discuss problems,
and contemplate the future of our world. The purpose of The Future
is on the Table is to invite people to this table, to use art as a
means to create community dialogue, encourage activism and carry the
energy of the project to the future.
At the City Gallery at Waterfront Park from September 13 to October
26, artists will present art installations, performances, and gift
exchanges. At the Gibbes Museum of Art from September 12 to November
2, an installation will represent the evolution of the five-year
project and each participating artist or arts collaborative. Artists
will be in residence at the exhibition sites prior to the openings
and will give presentations at Columbia College and the Halsey
Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. The
exhibition will move to the North Charleston City Gallery on November
3rd through November 25, 2008.
Special happenings and discussions will take place on September 13
(4PM, followed by opening till 7PM) and October 26 (11 AM-5PM) at the
City Gallery at Waterfront Park, September 14 (1PM-5PM at the Gibbes
Museum of Art, and October 25 (10:30AM-5PM) at Redux Contemporary Art
Center. These special events will include multi-disciplinary
performances and dialogues on community-based arts, collaborations in
the field of visual arts, the tradition of gift exchange, and the
cultural impact of the arts in a global culture.
http://thefutureisonthetable.ning.com/ will be made public on August 1st.
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