The artists from the Blackwater Polytechnic will be showing at Theodore:Art as part of Exchange Rates: the Bushwick Expo. This is the first collaboration between existing artist-run and emerging galleries in Bushwick and Sluice, the London-based art initiative for artist-run projects from across the UK and Europe. Projects from Sluice’s network of UK and European galleries will share space with existing Bushwick spaces to forge links and find common ground across a vast geographical sweep.
Exchange Rates invites representatives from kindred art communities to be
part of Bushwick’s development. With a common focus on public engagement, artistic collaboration and the transferral of ideas, Exchange Rates will engender creative transaction between galleries, artists, curators and members of the public. There will be 52 galleries and projects participating from 19 different cities around the world. The expo will include several panel discussions, performance events and Norte Maar’s Beat Nite, a late night gallery tour and after-party on Friday.
Come to Exchange Rates for a creative breath of fresh air.
It is an exposition, to wit. Not a fair.
Exchange Rates: the Bushwick Expo is organised by Sluice_, Theodore:Art and Centotto.
Open from Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 October, 12 – 6pm daily
Launch party Friday 24 October 6 – 10pm
Entrance free
Blackwater Polytechnic will be showing at Theodore:Art, 56 Bogart St, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Blackwater Polytechnic artists: Ben Coode-Adams, Freddie Robins, Simon Emery (The Paintbox), Sara Impey, Justin Knopp (Typoretum) and Paula Kane.
Interview with Ben Coode-Adams about the work of the Blackwater Polytechnic in the online publication Hyperallergic – An English Shire Arrives in Bushwick for Exchange Rates