iVox PopuliCallowhill / Chinatown North
An Endless Meeting
Vox's autumn project on collective process, artistic labour and the politics of working together, spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programmes and a print publication.
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One room is set up as a real estate office, with listings and brochures, except every deal is land given back to Indigenous people. That's New Red Order's Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty (Office Edition). Its central film, partly styled as MTV Cribs, tours an apartment supposedly given back by NRO regular Jim Fletcher.
It's one strand of Vox Populi's autumn project on working together, spread across the third floor. Caroline Woolard balances wooden poles that seem to float. At Kameelah Janan Rasheed's library on Nairobi College, East Palo Alto's community-run Black school, you can copy archive excerpts and pass them on. In Still Taking Minutes, four Vox members answer interviews with more than 13 Philadelphia artists about joining and leaving collectives, and 變 SLOW BURN fills Gallery One and the Black Box.
Bring time for reading. It's open Thursdays 4 to 6pm and Friday to Sunday 12 to 6pm. First Friday on 6 November runs 6 to 10pm, with a 7pm performance in SLOW BURN.
Editor's pick
New Red Order runs a working real-estate office that recruits visitors to give land back to Indigenous people. Philadelphia's longest-running artist collective gives its galleries to work on how collectives form, last and fall apart. Entry is free.
Look for
The land-back real estate office
Look for real-estate-style listings and promotional materials advertising land returned to Indigenous people, with New Red Order's film playing at the centre.
Woolard's floating poles
In Art of Gravity, wooden poles seem to hang in mid-air and plaster arms circle stands on their fingertips, held up by balance alone.
The Nairobi College library
Rasheed's evolving library lays out archive excerpts on East Palo Alto's community-built Black school, and you're invited to copy them and pass them on.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want a quick look: the core works include a film, a reading library and interview-based pieces.
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Image credits
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- An Endless MeetingCourtesy of Vox Populi
- You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary TapestryPhoto credit: Constance Mensh.
- Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just BegunCourtesy of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Vox PopuliVox Populi
- The Fabric Workshop and MuseumJohn Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- African American Museum in Philadelphiaajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- National Constitution CenterBeyond My Ken, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0