IN THE LOUNGE Communitas Curated by Frank J. Miles

About This Show

Communitas, a creative think tank, anticipates a new cultural topography, offering a refraction of the times we are moving toward. We continue the tradition of a Downtown Manhattan participatory social practice, congregating with evolving ideas in art, aesthetics, optimism, pacifism, iconoclasm, thought, imagination, vanguardism & New York City. Our salon, a symposium of social sculpture and the occurrent arts, brings together collaborators from the many worlds of New York City and beyond to create the next artistic rebellion for the city. We welcome a panhumanist spectrum of creative voices engaging in dialogical aesthetics and art intervention: voices bringing people together to open more worlds, make beauty and magic, create peace and freedom, and be more futurist than nostalgic to build a united tomorrow not equal but egalitarian.

In November, Communitas will present: In the Absence of Disturbance & Halcyon Sublimity & Open Borders:  Ennui + Tension + Nuance + Play + Flow + Limbo in the Societies of Control / Spectacle / Diffraction

Numerous Artists – Local, Domestic, Foreign

All Disciplines

All Backgrounds

All Walks of Life

12 Shows

4 Years

1 Final Night in America

Communitas’ New York City Dénouement

– Featuring the Next Artistic Rebellion: STEAM (– Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)

About the Curator

Frank J Miles is a pandisciplinary visual artist, artistic philosopher, and social sculptor based in New York City. Miles is the creator of Communitas—a creative think tank designed to anticipate new cultural topographies and bring people together to experience a refraction of the times we are racing toward. Miles’ work deals with atheism, death, competition, bonding, density, and utopia. He is currently looking to establish new concrete possibilities for art and philosophy in Europe.

Vered Snear (b. Israel 1982) is a New York based Israeli artist. Snear is a research-based artist working in video, installation, sculpture and photography. She explores the relationships between media and ideology in order to challenge dominant ideas and to better understand representation as a tool that articulates subjectivities, bodies, affects and desires. She also investigates the role of language, both textual and visual, within this framework with the aim to create a space in which we can disrupt or open up this process. She holds an MFA from Parsons, The New School for Design, New York and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Matej Vakula, is a multimedia artist, educator, curator, theorist, programmer, and DIY enthusiast with speciality in data visualization, biology and urban issues. Recently artist in residence at Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center and research fellow at the Public Lab and member of community biolab Genspace. Dedicated to development of new methods in artistic research. His work explores impact of culture, technology, location and politics on personal experience and social interrelationships.Exhibiting internationally. Young Visual Artist Award nomination, 6th Prague Biennial, co-founder of CLAKULA Gallery, NYC

Monday, November 21 at 7:30pm

A $5 Suggested Donation (cash at door) supports the artists.

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Photo Credit: Matej Vakula

 

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